Free E-Book: School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come

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  Tags: school libraries, book, 21cif

  • School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come

  • FREE E-Book! A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors.

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Online Teacher's Information Fluency Toolkit

• 21st Century Information Fluency Homepage

  Research, curriculum materials, online games, for teaching information fluency skills.

  tags: 21stcenturyskills information_literacy research

• Digital Information Fluency Model

  

• Information Fluency Teacher Resource Kits

  This is the home page for our Full Circle Resource Kits. Each Kit is designed to provide online and face to face teachers with a comprehensive set of online articles about searching, evaluating, and ethically using digital content. Includes, games, assessment ideas, and curriculum building resources. Topics Include: Getting Started with the Search Process, Instructional Guidelines, Database Selection, Deep Web Searching, Question to Query, Optimal Queries, Effective Operators Homing in on Relevant Information, Browsing, Directories, Links, Tags, Web 2.0 Search Applications, Evaluation, Author, Publisher, Bias, Links, Date, Evidence, Accuracy, Ethical Use, and Citation.

  tags: information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games

• Who Links to this page?

  An interactive game Micromodule companion: Understand how to discover pages that link to the webpage under investigation.

  tags: investigative searching website evaluation learning game

• Who is the Author?

  An interactive MicroModule companion. This tutorial provides an opportunity to apply research and detective techniques that help you find the author of a website.

  tags: modla investigative searching website evaluation learning game

• Who is the Publisher?

  An interactive MicroModule companion. Investigative techniques for determining the Publisher of a website.

  tags: modla investigative searching website evaluation learning game

• Bias & Objectivity

  An interactive MicroModule companion. How to recognize indicators of Bias. Read passages from actual websites then check your understanding of bias using 5 essential criteria.

  tags: modla investigative searching website evaluation learning game

• What is the Date?

  An interactive MicroModule companion. Determine the freshness of information by fining out how recently a web page was published or updated.

  tags: modla investigative searching website evaluation learning game

• Bad Apple: The Classroom Edition

  Five separate evaluation challenges that compare your investigative findings to those of others in your class. Can you detect which websites are hoaxes and which are not?

  tags: information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games

• Use it? or Lose It?

  Live webpage evaluation games that challenge your skills to locate and evaluate information on the Internet.

  tags: information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games

• Copyright: An Interactive MicroModule Companion

  This tutorial provides an opportunity to apply copyright and fair use knowledge in a learning game setting.

  tags: information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games ethical use

• Plagiarism I: An interactive MicroModule Companion

  Our original plagiarism challenge: can you tell which students are guilty of plagiarism? Can your students make a distinction between paraphrasing and plagiarism?

  tags: plagiarism paraphrasing information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games ethical use

• Plagiarism II: An interactive Micromodule companion.

  Part two of this series of tutorial games for improving one's understanding of plagiarism vs paraphrasing.

  tags: plagiarism information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games ethical use paraphrasing

• Plagiarism III: An interactive MicroModule companion

  Part three of series of tutorial games for improving one's understanding of plagiarism and how to avoid it. This game asked you to investigate science topics. Can you demonstrate the differencs between plagiarism and paraphrasing?

  tags: plagiarism paraphrasing information literacy information fluency' teacher resources learning games ethical use

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Information Investigator Preview

• Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi
  What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?
  
  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 
  Tags: 21cif, Information fluency, selflearning, self-paced, online learning, research
  • - By Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 on Prezi

Limited time offer:  Preview this course. Cost? Your time and attention. http://21cif.com/selfguided.html

Search Stories: Zack Matere: Growing Knowledge

Search Story: Using the Internet to find information that changes lives. Zack Matere uses a village bulletin board to tack up vital knowledge he gets from the net. Real change, now.

Search Stories: Letter from Descartes

Erik-Jan, a philosophy scholar in the Netherlands, has spent 20 years studying René Descartes. In 2010, his search to understand Descartes' correspondences led him to something that had been missing for over 300 years


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Is your district spending 8 - 16k per year on you?

Education Week: Bringing Professional Development Into the 21st Century

• But the body of research reveals that staff-development costs, including central-office and local staff, hours of teacher time, stipends, salary increases, substitutes, facilities, instructors, and material expenditures hover in the range of $8,000 to $16,000 per teacher, per year, especially in larger districts. Most districts have no idea they spend that much on staff development. Sadly though, most administrators agree their professional-development outlay has no correlation with student-achievement results.
  
  
  • The only effective way to scale professional development is to leverage online learning. Online professional development can deliver dozens of hours to teachers within eight weeks and includes collaborative learning environments supported effectively by coaching, modeling, mentoring, observation, and feedback. Online professional development works because it reduces travel costs and coordination, minimizes time out of the classroom, and allows educators to learn at their own pace. In fact, research suggests that online learning happens faster than face-to-face learning, with increased retention of the material.
  • Online professional development engages educators in high-quality learning by adhering to best practices in adult learning. It promotes differentiated coursework while enabling teachers to engage collaboratively with colleagues who share their learning needs. By delivering effective, differentiated online professional development, districts leverage the powerful advantages of technology and the online-learning environment. Districts delivering online professional development realize cost savings, scale critical instructional practices, differentiate teacher learning, advance strategic human-capital management, maintain intentional fidelity, and transform teaching.
  • The $10,000-per-teacher cost could be justified if a significant change in teacher practice or student achievement were the result. But most professional development today lacks alignment to student-achievement needs, fidelity of implementation, and scale or reach. Professional-development days are historically spread throughout the year and delivered by internal resources through one-day trainings with little or no follow-up. In most cases, the inch-deep and train-the-trainer approaches to professional development won’t transform practice.

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Competition for Library Jobs Heats Up

"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
~~ Monty Python ~~



Special thanks to Librarian David Wee of Harvard-Westlake Middle School for the initial quotation that triggered this post. 


Now I realize why he's going ape during the first week of school!


~ Dennis

Smart Search for Parents and Kids

• Teach Your Kids the Secrets of Smart Web Searching
  From Common Sense Media: Safe Searching for your kids.
  Tags: 21cif, Information fluency, research
  • - By Dennis OConnor

  • Advice & Answers

    Help Your Child Search the Web Like a Pro
    Why It Matters
    Tips for Effective Online Searches
    Great Google Searching Shortcuts

    
    

    Help Your Child Search the Web Like a Pro

    “Let’s google dinosaurs.” Sound familiar? Searching the Web is so commonplace that even young children know what it means to “google.” But when your children really need to do research for a report – or dive deeper into a subject they’re interested in – it helps to know some strategies for improving their results.
    
    Effective online searching can make a huge difference in the quality and relevance of the content your children find on the Internet. But it takes a bit of know-how to improve the chances of getting back the information they’re looking for. You can help your child search smarter – and waste less time – by explaining how to search like a pro.

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Big6 Rocks!

• Big6 Resources
  Tags: BIG6, information literacy, 21cif, Information fluency, research 2.0, writing
• ALA | Big Six Information Skills Research Study
  Tags: BIG6, research, ala, 21cif, information literacy, Information fluency, research 2.0

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JoyceValenza - See Sally Research

So much more to learn, so much more to teach. The evolution of the librarian and the library.




Joyce Kasman Valenza loves her work as the librarian at Springfield Township High School (PA)! For ten years, she was the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joyce is the author of Power Tools, Power Research Tools and Power Tools Recharged for ALA Editions. (PowerTools Remixed is currently in progress.) Joyce is a Milken Educator, an American Memory Fellow, and a member of the Library of Congress Teacher with Primary Sources cohort. Her Virtual Library won the IASL School Library Web Page of the Year Award for 2001. She has won her state's PSLA Outstanding Program (2005) and Outstanding Contributor (2009) Awards. Joyce is active in ALA, AASL, YALSA, and ISTE and contributes to VOYA, Technology and Learning, LMC and School Library Journal. Joyce speaks internationally about issues relating to libraries and thoughtful use of educational technology. She considers herself a mother and founder of the school library Geek Tribe, SchoolLibraryWebsites, New Tools Workshop, TLNing, TL Virtual Café, TL Ning, Pathfinder Swap, School Library Websites, and TLGuide.

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Information Fluency Common Core Alignment

• Information Fluency Common Core Alignment
  One school districts work aligning information fluency with the new Common Core Learning Standards.   Lots of work done here.  Are you facing a similar project?  
  Tags: information fluency, 21cif, Common-Core, commoncore
  • - By Dennis OConnor

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Twitter, Research, Historical Tweeting

Twitter, Research, Historical Tweeting

• TwHistory
  Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research  Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold – over a day, a week, a month or more – reflecting the event’s actual duration."
  Tags: research 2.0, cool tools, Twitter, reading, 21cif
  • - By Dennis OConnor

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