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The Keyword Blog
Blog for 21CIF Project. Search, Evaluate, and Ethical use information. Includes online courses in information fluency (ISTE NETS-S 3). Quality info
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Here’s a roundup of the
Web 2.0 Evaluation Kit
Resource kit with materials about evaluaiton of web 2.0 content.
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Evaluating Digital Information
Part Five of the series Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot do
(and what you can do to help) discusses how searchers have to invent their own evaluation standards because schools are not teaching them. -
Workshop Tutorials
The section on Investigative Searching is loaded with new ideas and activities to teach careful evaluation. Consider ways to use this resource in your class.
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Super searchers go to school ... - Google Books
Interview and chapter from Dr. David Barr, founder of the 21st Century Information Fluency Project. This Google book article from Joyce Valenza & Reva Basch's book Super Searchers Go to school reaveal some of David's thinking about the knowledge, skills and dispositions for successful searching. \n\nAnyone who knows David Barr recognizes his amazing understanding of 21st century information systems. This is a gem. Don't miss it.
Information Fluency - ISTE 2010 Conference Ning
Get an early Start on ISTE 2010 in Denver!
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Join US! Library Media Specialists, Ed-Technologists, any educator interested in 21st Century Skills
Information Fluency: Online Class: Investigate and Evaluate Digital Materials
We combine performance evaluation with a series mastery quizzes to lock in the essential concepts delivered by the tutorials. As an educator you'll have access to performance evaluation and mastery quiz data. You'll have an online record of each student's performance that can be downloaded for data analysis.
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- You know the need for 21st Century Information Fluency Skills has never been higher
- You also know you’re understaffed and overbooked
On Demand Classes help you meet the needs of your students.
Start the new school year with a customized online training experience that will teach your students critical reading skills as they learn to search and evaluate Internet resources. Our multimedia enhanced, interactive course is suited for students from middle school through adult.
Internet Search Challenge: More information, a smaller fraction
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The paradoxical thing about information and searching is that the more of it there is, the less of it we will see. The results we retrieve will be a smaller and smaller sample of what's actually available. And I don't see how this trend can be reversed.
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When I ask workshop participants if they've ever gone to the end of the list retrieved, I've never encountered anyone who has. Most searchers stop after the first page; the number who look at two pages is much smaller. For the 8 people in 100 who go beyond the third page, they have access to 0.1% of the information theoretically available. For the majority who never look beyond page one, that number falls to 0.025%.
The Keyword Blog: Son of Citation Machine 5.0 / Warlick Video
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Here's the latest edition of the very popular Son of Citation Machine from David Warlick. It handles MLA, APA, Turabian and Chicago. I've included a video from David so you can learn about from the source!
- Video tutorial by David Warlick on Citation Machine 5.0
e-Learning Online: Website Investigator: See you at NECC 2009!
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Website Investigator: Information Forensics Goes to School -
The purpose of this session is to provide participants with an understanding of efficient methods for evaluating online information and to demonstrate effective ways to teach these information fluency skills in classrooms.
The new generation of NETS standards for students (ISTE, 2007), is based on the premise that efficacy and productivity depends on students’ abilities to conduct research and manage digital information fluently. An essential skill is the ability to evaluate information from a variety of sources and media.
This session directly addresses this information fluency standard by helping participants…
1. Understand the role of investigation (information forensics) in evaluating information:
• Two types of searching: how investigation differs from speculation;
• Determining when investigative searching is necessary and when it is not;
• Effective means of finding critical information with limited clues;
• Using specialized search engines and browsing techniques to track down information;
• Analyzing results to determine credibility of the source and content.2. Observe effective methods for helping students exercise speculative search skills:
• Off-line 'readiness' activities;
• Group and individual Search Challenges;
• Interactive tutorial games;
• Think-aloud searches;
• Evaluation reporting;
• Group discussion about credibility.
Getting Boys To Read
Mike McQueen's dynamic community dedicated to boys into reading. A noble cause and a space filled with upbeat ideas and energy. Information Fluency and Information Literacy are all based on the ability to read. Building a passion for reading is what this site is all about.
Interactive Website Evaluation Tutorials
10 online Flash games to teach 'investigative searching'. Learn how to dig deep into a website to determine credibility of the resource.
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nvestigative Searching Tutorials
Use these interactive tutorials to strengthen your skills locating and evaluating information
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Add Sticky Note
- Diigo Users! Join the information Fluency Group to find more resources like this one! - on 2009-05-23
Information Fluency Homepage
Gateway to hundreds of free online resources focused on 21st Century Information Fluency.
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Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically.
Evaluating Digital Information: Introduction, Research, Resources
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Every school administrator wants to maintain a safe distance between objectionable material and impressionable students. Blocking students from potential contact with sexual predators and other malinformation is absolutely well-intended. However, blocking sites does not help students think critically about the quality of the information they retrieve or prepare them for the real world of information they encounter outside of school.
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Teachers may contribute to the problem by introducing filters of their own into learning experiences. In practice, it works like this: a teacher wants her class to access digital information, so she conducts a search ahead of time and selects web pages she finds credible and appropriate. Students then engage in a Web quest using pages or sites that have approved content. Aside from the intended benefits of the exercise, the students have missed an opportunity to learn skills in searching and evaluating that they need in the 21st century.
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Internet Search Challenges III
30 Internet Search Games from 21cif. Arranged by level of difficulty.
College Lesson Study
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Each year librarians at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse teach a "one-shot" lesson in information literacy to 2000 students enrolled in an introductory communication studies course. Students attend the lesson in groups of about 25 in the library. Concerned about the quality of the experience, the librarians decided to make the lesson the subject of a lesson study. They wanted to better understand what students get out of the lesson and how to improve the experience so that students achieve proficiency in research skills and learn how to use libarary resources and services.
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They presented their work, Lesson Study: An Experience in Collaborative Inquiry, at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians in April 2007. They also published their lesson study, Teaching Library Information Literacy Skills to Students Enrolled in an Introductory Communication Course: A Collaborative Study in the UW System Teaching Forum.
Workshop Resources: It's Elementary 21st Century Information Fluency
A special menu of workshop resources about 21st Century Information Fluency. Media rich materials for creating presentations about searching, website evaluation, and ethical use of digital materials.
Online & Free
Focused on Elementary Grade levels
ASCD Inservice: The Curse of the Digitally Illiterate
A solid and timely article about the professional responsibility all educators have to become digitally literate. The comments on this blog are particularly good. You get a real feel for what's happening in the trenches
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In his article in the February Educational Leadership ("Learning with Blogs and Wikis"), Bill Ferriter argues that digital tools like RSS feeds and aggregators help educators advance their professional learning. But first, some teachers need to join the ranks of the literate
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Sadly, digital illiteracy is more common that you might think in schools. There are hundreds of teachers that haven't yet mastered the kinds of tools that have become a part of the fabric of learning—and life—for our students. We ban cell phones, prohibit text messaging, and block every Web application that our students fall in love with. We see gaming as a corrupting influence in the lives of children and remain convinced that Google is making us stupid.
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