WHAT THE LIBRARY CAN DO FOR YOU!
“Help us Help you”
The Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
1. inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge;
2. draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge;
3. share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society;
4. pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
describe how learners use skills, resources, and tools to:
These standards relate to your curriculum
What language?
Examples:
• select and use appropriate technologies to gather, process, and analyze data and to report information related to an investigation (Science standards)
• obtaining and processing information by selecting, categorizing, and analyzing from sources (Foreign Language standard)
These standards relate to your curriculum
Examples:
• apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing (Reading and writing standards)
• using historical information to interpret and evaluate decisions or policies regarding contemporary issues (History standards)
These standards relate to your curriculum
Examples:
- investigating the time, cost, available technology and participation requirements involved in a choice of physical activities (P.E. standards)
- become mathematical problem solvers. To be problem solvers, students need to know how to find ways to reach a goal when no routine path is apparent (Math standards)
aka “Standards OS 1.0”
The BIG6 Research Model
RATIONALE
• teach information and technology skills
• most widely-known and widely-used approach in the
world
• applicable whenever people need and use information
• systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate
information
• help students to work smarter
• focuses on process as well as content
Step 1. Task Definition
1.1 Define the information problem
Formulate the initial problem/question
Establish focus
1.2 Identify information needed
Brainstorm
Identify keywords
Explore general sources
What we can offer you for this step:
• Lesson planning
• Essential questions
• KWL chart and other graphic organizers
• Keyword organizers (synonyms, antonyms)
• Teachers’ websites
• Delicious (your bookmarks online)
Step 2. Information Seeking Strategies
2.1 Determine all possible sources
Books, Encyclopedias, Databases, Internet, etc.
2.2 Select the best sources
the most relevant, accurate information
the quickest access
What we can offer you for this step:
• Book carts
• Library catalog (keepers: bibliography)
• Database navigation and teacher tools
• Internet searches, Webquests
• ILL: interlibrary loan
• Library website
• United Streaming (assignment builder)
• Web 2.0 tools
Step 3. Location and Access
3.1 Locate sources
Where can I find each source?
3.2 Find information within sources
How do I use the source the most efficiently?
Where is the relevant information within each source?
What we can offer you for this step:
• Library orientation
• Database flyers (off-campus)
• Speed reading techniques
• Advanced Search strategies
Step 4. Use of Information
4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view, touch)
How will information be recorded?
4.2 Extract relevant information
Look at relevancy and validity.
What we can offer you for this step:
• Note-taking
• Citations
• Plagiarism
• Evaluating websites
• Navigating the network
• G-mail
Step 5. Synthesis
5.1 Organize from multiple sources
5.2 Present the information
Who/What is the audience?
What is the medium of presentation?
What we can offer you for this step:
• Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki’s, Picasa, Nings, Flickr …
• Digital cameras• Video cameras• Microphones• Webcams• PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Excel
Step 6. Evaluation
6.1 Judge the product
Has the problem/question been solved/answered?
Does the final product match the task?
6.2 Judge the process
How can it be better the next time?
What we can offer you for this step:
• Self-evaluation forms
• One-on-one time with students and teachers
• IL assessments (citations, bibliographies,
rubrics)
• Instant feedback
The Big 6
• consistent school-wide vocabulary
• gets students organized (structure)
• easy step-by-step approach
• awareness for different options or sources of
information
• applicable to all subject areas across grade levels
• best learned when integrated with classroom
curriculum and activities
COLLABORATION
Meet NGHS mission for 2008-09: To develop a culture of trust, collaboration, and shared leadership.
Collaboration between teachers and librarians brings additional energy, expertise and creativity to
planning instructional activities.
Schools with quality school library programs and professional staffing show 8 to 21% better CSAP
scores than schools without such programs.
Credits
Created by Rita Stephenson
The "Big6™ copyright © (1987) Michael B " is. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz.
For more information, visit: www.big6.com