Digital Literacy – Research Skills
This school year, I am fortunate to be teaching grades 4-5 in grades 4-8 school. I will be teaching in the classroom on a half-time basis and filling the role of teacher-librarian in the school for the other half of my assignment. This is my first year as a teacher-librarian. I am excited about my new role and all the collaboration opportunities with teachers and, of course, the time with the student working on projects and learning about technology. My experience working as a teacher-librarian is limited but I have a vision of what I want to accomplish in the school library and with the student body. Last school year, I had collaborated closely with the former teacher-librarian on many projects. Her guidance and expertise lead me to understand the role of the teacher-librarian and allowed me to focus on what I want to accomplish for this school year.
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As a new teacher-librarian, the first step was to visit the grade 7-8 teachers. After a discussion with them about their curriculum needs and the needs of the students, we decided to focus on digital literacy, in particular, research skills. We all agreed that this topic was a good starting point to eventually lead the students to successfully and efficiently complete inquiry-based projects. The grade 7-8 teachers explained that the students did not understand how to effectively research and that they lacked experience gathering and assessing information. I saw this as an opportunity to further my knowledge of digital literacy and research skills. For this assignment, I would be interested in exploring the following topics:
-Digital literacy in the 21st century
-Provincial standards and outcomes around research skills
-The fundamentals and framework for research
-Engaging strategies and activities to teach research skills
The keywords for these topics are digital literacy, research skills standards, research skills lessons, research skills teaching strategies, search bar strategies, reliability of the information, note-taking, compiling information, comparing websites, the research process, and forming meaningful questions.
I would also like to learn more about why the students have insufficient research skills and how I can help them to develop better research skills.
This is a good first post! You have a strong focus for further reading and research. I am interested in seeing where your learning takes you. This area happens to be one of my key interest areas as well. I appreciate the addition of multimedia elements such as your image and video links. You may want to experiment with embedding the video link next time. These elements add an additional layer to your post and enhance the reading experience for your audience.
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