Wuerzburg Middle School
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We can no longer define school success as learning a predetermined set of facts. Schools need to help everyone cope with the constantly changing world and the huge amount of information now available from a large variety of print and non-print sources. These are life skills. Teachers are no longer the most important source of information. Teachers are now becoming the coach to encourage students to find the facts and solve the problems on their own. As a result, students must learn skills to use a variety of sources to locate, gather, organize and then present this knowledge to their selected audience.
"From--data to--information to--insight" (Jamie McKenzie)
Information Literacy for the student:
The information literate student understands that there is a need for information to solve a problem or develop an idea.
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Answer the questions by completing the worksheet.
Investigate two information literacy models:
Click on the Big6. Investigate the model for your grade level.
Click on the Research Cycle 2000. Go to the part of the pages that begin with Questioning under the model created with Inspiration. Check it out.
Compare and contrast the two models. Give some ways that they are similar.
Give some ways in which they are different.
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Look at several of these strategies and share some advice you think will help others with their research.
Information Literacy for the teacher:
"We feed students certainties, scientific laws, and shopworn truths unlikely to survive the rapid change of the Information Age." (Jaime McKenzie)
If we create great questions; our students will give us creative, amazing, and innovative answers.
Everything you wanted to know about creating the infoliterate student.
10/18/06