HOW DO YOU TEACH INFORMATION LITERACY ?

QUESTIONS

1. How has a definition of information literacy changed throughout the years of your practice? What were the markers for you along the way?

2. How have you adapted to the changing technological environment in order to keep up, lead your teachers and teach your students?

3. What is your own personal definition at this point?

4. Do you have a school-wide approach to teaching it?

5. Do teach abstract information litearcy skills separately from course content?

6. How do you teach online search skills?

EXAMPLES

1.    Approach: integrating information literacy skills as seamlessly as possible into lessons

• Biology 11: Wonders of the Living World - Use both print resources and online resources
• Geography 12 -How to tell if an article is good enough to put in your scrapbook
• Home Economics - Evaluating the "science" of  site /  peer-reviewed?

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2. Model online resources and limiters by embedding them into assignments

• RSS feeds - David Suzuki Foundation - Latest New

• Google Books / Audio / Video - Road to War: Lesson 1: Failure of Collective Security

• Google News

• Google Alerts

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3. Weave in teacher-librarian narrative ( as in person)

• Dig deep into the meanings of words

• Creating a thesis (written form of live lesson in class)

• Who can you trust? – A tool for evaluating your print and digital sources

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4. Learn by doing

• Integrate the challenge of learning new technology right into the lesson ( e.g. teaching students to use a blog)

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5. Learn something new everyday and teach others

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