Information Smarts Workshop
A huge thank you to Danielle Winn, Librarian at the Education Library, for presenting today’s workshop, Developing Information Smarts: Inquiry in a Digital World. The Education Library website has a page devoted to the LLED 320 course and that page can be found here.
As an introduction, Danielle showed us a YouTube clip on Digital Citizenship:
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and noted some of the key themes the video presents.
Then she asked us to work with the material found in a document produced by the BCTLA Info Lit Task Force, The Points of Inquiry: A Framework for Information Literacy and the 21st Century Learner. The task was to consider how each point of inquiry – connect & wonder, investigate,construct, express, and reflect – might play out in a lesson.
After the intro we got right down to work on the Developing Information Smarts Guide, The task addresses the five points of inquiry:
- Connect & Wonder
- Investigate
- Construct
- Express
- Reflect
In the debrief, it came out the the following tools were of particular interest:
- Culturegrams – information on countries of the world
- Passport to the Internet – internet safety site
- ToonDoo – a make your own cartoon site
- Bibme – online citing tool
You can find much more information on the Ed Lib’s LLED 320 web page.
The day wrapped up with SMART Bingo and prizes to the winners!
Of course, to be info literate, you need to be able to use the hardware. For some, that can be a real challenge…
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Choice Literacy Website
If you can get your hardware working, please check out this website recommended to me by Dr. Marlene Asselin, the LLED 320 coordinator – Choice Literacy. According to Marlene:
“It’s a rich and extensive collection of ideas from people on the ground – literacy leaders, coaches, and teachers. It includes:
- Workshop protocols for leading study groups, in-services, and workshops
- Sample observation forms and needs assessment surveys
- Professional quality video examples of best literacy practices from classrooms throughout the country
- The newest writing from top authors in the field
- Short, focused articles for use in workshop discussions and mentoring meetings
- Year-long calendars and plans for leading new teacher initiatives
- Themed booklists for content and genre study
That’s all for now.
– Lawrence