Session 1
Information Literacy
:
The Whys and Wherefores
Essential Questions:
1. What is "information literacy" and why is it important to our teaching?
2. How do we define a process for teaching the critical thinking and problem solving skills our students need?
Big6 in Many Languages
Course requirements
Assignment planner
"Did You Know?" Powerpoint - (Koelker version)
"Did You Know?" - Movie version
Tuning In to Jon Stewart, and Britney Schmidt
Information Literacy Overview
Learning for the 21st Century - Partnership for 21st Century Skills Report
Information Problems worksheet
The Whole Enchillada (yummmm......)
The Big6 Overview
Santa Uses the Big6
Choosing Your Socks with Big6
Choosing Shoes with Big6
Ribs: the ground-breaking Powerpoint
iGoogle - Create accounts for Gmail, Blogger, Page Creator, and Google Documents
Text Work - Google Documents - Chapter 2
Blog: "If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate." David Warlick
Additional Optional Readings
Literacy in the Digital Age
The World is Flat - Book Summary
Session 2
Task Definition Part I:
How do you know what you need to know?
Essential Questions:
How do we help students understand their learning tasks?
How does careful task definition make teaching more effective and efficient?
Text work - Chapter 6 with notes
Examples from the classroom: Dan Wolotsky - Questions, Task Definition, and the Big Juicy
Grading Yoda Sabrina Ali
Essential Questions from the student point of view
"Understanding by Design" - Essential Questions
Essential Questions Powerpoint from Wiggins and McTighe
Writing your own essential questions
For the Best Answers, Ask Tough Questions
Gargoyles - Jamie MacKenzie
Plagiarism: Who's Problem Is It?
Student sample - Eleanor Roosevelt
Turn It In or
Ask.com
Plagiarism-proofing Assignments - Doug Johnson
Activity: Jigsaw the 16
InfoTech at SPSD - Find 3 blacklines that you like - Find 3 interesting teacher resources - then go to the Big6 Ready-Made Projects
Blog: Begin your class journal on the blog created for you. Note your reflections and the implications of this learning for your teaching.
Blogger's Contract - Use this or your version of it to establish ground rules for blogging with your students.
BLOGGER SAFETY ALERT - Use this link to find out how to remove the Navigation Bar from your Blogger pages: Remove nav bar - This will take a bit of learning to do, but it is worth the effort to keep kids from wandering into objectionable content.
Additional Optional Readings:
Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
Assignment: The Big6 and Student Achievement
Session 3
Evaluation Part I:
"I'm not so sure this is going well...."
Essential Question:
How do formative evaluations guide the information problem-solving process?
Text Work: Chapter 11 - Secondary level text pp. 163-167 and p.188 with notes - Elementary level text pp. 113 - 115 and p. 124
Student example of a formative evaluation
Formative Assessment Powerpoint - "Exploring Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning"
Backward Design - Jigsaw in thirds: Overview, Step 1, Step 2
Barbara Jansen's Research Paper Organizer - secondary
Barbara Jansens's Big 6 Assignment Organizer - elementary
InfoTech - Big6 Assignment Planner
Natural Disasters Summative Evaluation Rubric - Grade 6
Rubric Makers - InfoTech site
Begin project planning
Assignment planner - Start filling this in for your project.
Session 4
Information Seeking Strategies:
Consider your options....
Essential Question:
What are the best sources of information available to solve a problem?
Brainstorm: The problem of local robberies
4 Blackline masters
Text Work: Chapter 7 with notes
Minerva
Minerva worksheet
Marvel!
Marvel graphic organizer
Marvel worksheet
Blog - Post your project Essential Question - then respond to someone else's
top
Session 5
Location and Access Part I:
It's around here someplace...
Essential Question:
How can you find what you want without wasting time on what you don't want?
Review - Saving files in Marvel & RSS in Marvel
Text Work: Chapter 8 with notes
Key Words: Big6 Blackline - CyberSmart Student Activity
Keyword Generator
Boolean Operators(Rockwell Schrock) - Boolean Operators (Bowling Green State University)
The Google Game
Reading URLs
More URL Information
Wikis and Blogs
Jay Cargill's class wiki at Kaler
Sample class blog - Anne Smith's 9th Honors
Cartoon
Searching Within a Webpage - Columbus' interest in Costa Rica
Projects
Blog - We're at the half-way point in the class. How do you think the course so far will impact your teaching?
Session 6
Location and Access Part II:
All information is not created equal.
Essential Question: What makes a good source good?
Teaching Zack to Think - Roundtable reactions
ICYouSee - T is for Thinking - Paired work with "4 stupid assignments"
Is It Real...Or Is It...? use with worksheet p. 11 and p. 31
Research your project topic using these subject directories:
Librarian’s Internet Index
Google Directory
Kids Click!
Yahooligans
Optional Reading: How to choose a search engine or directory
Blog - Remember David Warlick? Reply again: "If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate."
Session 7
Use of Information Part I:
"Organize or Die!"
Essential Question:
How can information be "harvested" for use in problem solving?
Text work: Chapter 9 Use of Information - Notetaking
Trash-N-Treasure Notetaking
ANWR Trash-N-Treasure - Model T-N-T
Fever Trash-N-Treasure
Graphic Organizers for Notetaking - from the InfoTech site
Electronic Notetaking - Urgent Need to Use Both Eyes
Blog - What have you used from this class in your teaching already this year?
Session 8
Use of Information Part II:
Getting ready to "make the magic happen"
Essential Question:
What tools can help with preparing to use information to present learning?
Review:
Projects - Self Evaluation Rubric -
Assignment planner
Last blog replies
Assessing ICT Literacy - Process reading
Graphic Organizers for the Big6 Stages
Tips: PowerPoint Part II - Note-taking
Making Powerpoint Note Cards -
Example (from Information Literacy Instruction and Fair Use)
Practice: Information Literacy article for note-taking in Powerpoint or Keynote
Citation Maker - Elementary - Citation Maker - Secondary
Citation Maker Directions
Citation Maker Note-taking pages
Knight Cite - Advanced Citation Website
Create Works Cited list of resources
Blog - What strategies are you using to help students avoid plagiarism in their school work?
Session 9
Synthesis Part I:
"The play's the thing."
Essential Question:
How can one best represent her/his learning to a genuine audience?
Text Work: Chapter 10 Synthesis - Read and add notes to note-taking form
** Project Ideas - from Newsbanks Resource Center on Big6
Blog - What time do you need to devote to teaching process skills so that your students can effectively synthesize their project?
Session 10
Synthesis Part II:
Is it all together yet?
Essential Question:
How does the recursive nature of Big6 affect the synthesis of information in learning?
One school's Big6 Projects: sample and review - Kindred School Big6
Middle and high school - "The Big6 Research Project" - "Visual Literacy: The Memorial Project" - More like these
Pairs - Discuss synthesis options - Newsbank ideas
Project work time
Is PowerPoint Evil? - read and discuss
PowerPoint 2003 Basics
Intro to Publisher (Print documents and web pages)
Helping With Homework: A Parent's Guide
Blog: What skills (technology, oral presentation, etc) do you need to teach your students for your project?
Session 11
Evaluation Part II:
Essential Question:
How do summative evaluations help finalize a learning experience?
The New "Homework" - More on the parent connection
Multimediocracy - Reading from Jamie McKenzie
MultiMedia Mania Student Checklist
MultiMedia Mania Rubric (printable version here)
MultiMedia Product Rubric
Big6 Quiz - Whaddya know??
Blackline Masters on Evaluation
Evaluating Units of Instruction the Big6 Way - Barbara Jansen
Printable Checklist
Newsbank's Big6 Resource Center
Test Your ILQ (Information Literacy Quotient)- Be sure to add your email address so the answers and your score can be sent to you!
Blog: TOTALLY OPTIONAL - Your final thoughts and comments (on anything at all, including the Pats vs. Vikes, or the chocolate cake).
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