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| Information Literacy | |
Access and Evaluate Information
- Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)
- Evaluate information critically and competently
- Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
- Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
- Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information
| Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes |  |
- English, reading or language arts
- World languages
- Arts
- Mathematics
- Economics
- Science
- Geography
- History
- Government and Civics
In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency in core subjects to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into core subjects:
- Global awareness
- Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy
- Civic literacy
- Health literacy
- Environmental literacy
2. Why is information literacy important?
a. Teaching Zack to Think
3. What do we know about Information Literacy?
I. REVIEW Digital Literacy Quiz
II. Information Literacy Quiz Answer Key with Follow-up Activities
If you have had the opportunity to look at our Information Literacy Quiz, here are some suggested answers and follow-up activities to use with students.
For each suggested answer in the Information Literacy Quiz, look for Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students
1. List 4 major search engines and a major directory.
We won’t attempt to list them all here…For a list of search engines, directories, meta-search engines and all their functions, check http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
If you are looking for “kidcentric” type search tools, try NoodleTools: NoodleQuest Search Strategies Wizard: http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest and Tekmom: Tekmom: http://www.tekmom.com/search/
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Try to find a subject specific database in your area of expertise.
Give students sample research problems from which they access NoodleTools to help them select appropriate search tools.
SearchingThe Search engine Showdown
This page will lead you through everything you ever wanted to know about search engines.
Four NETS for Better Searching This site will lead you through a tutorial on the four steps which will make your searching easier.
The Spider's ApprenticeEverything you need to know about Searching.
The following are good search engines
Metacrawler
Teoma
Yahoo
Altavista
Dogpile
Cuil
Student Search Engines
Yahooligans
KidClick
Ask Jeeves for Kids
2. What is a blog?
Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
This blog started as a literary discussion forum on “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd (she even joined in the discussion!) http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/
Other free blog sites
www.blogger.com
www.blog.com
3. Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search?
Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results in the order you have specified. You would use them if you wanted to research a given phrase. For example, if you conduct a search for global warming, a search WITHOUT quotation marks would find sites that include the words “global” AND “warming” – the words do not have to appear together and you will get more hits than you probably want.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students use a search engine such as Teoma: http://www.teoma.com/ and search for a phrase, such as renewable resources without quotation marks, then with quotation marks. Have them note the differences in the number of results.
Activity:
Miserable Failure
In Google type in "miserable failure"
Miserable Failure Article
4. URL is an acronym for…
Uniform Resource Locator
5. Identify three Boolean search terms.
AND, OR, NOT
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students create example search queries using Boolean Operators.
6. How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?
Go to http://www.easywhois.com/ and enter the URL of the site you would like to research.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students find owner information for the site www.harrypotter.com
7. Identify these extensions and what they represent:
.org - organization
.com - company
.sch – school (used outside of US)
.k12 – most US school sites
.edu – US higher ed
.gov – US government (add country code for outside US)
.ac – higher ed outside of US usually used with country code, example, “.ac.uk”
.net - network
.mil – US military
.co – Company (if paired with a country code, example “.co.uk,” the state of Colorado or the country, Columbia)
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
It’s really important that students are familiar with these extensions. Create a match game or have them identify the extension within sample URLs.
8. How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site?
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and do a link: command search. In the search box type link:your school’s address.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
This is called searching for external links. You can search for the external links on any Website with the link command. Consider using some of the bogus Web sites. Look for a list on our Information Literacy page.
9. What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?
Look for a tilde “~” or the “%” sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and the first forward slash “/“
11. How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and type host:ac.za in the search box
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students::
Have students search for subject specific resources around the world using extensions and country codes. For a full list go to Computer User High-Tech Dictionary: http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/noframes/nf.domains.html
12. How do you find the history of any given Web site?
Use the Wayback Machine. Go to http://www.archive.org/ and type the URL of the web site you would like to research into the search box.
Wayback Machine
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students look at the history of the Harry Potter site: http://www.harrypotter.com/. Why has it changed so much over the years?
13. How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle.
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and type “host:edu + turtle” in the search box.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students search for school web sites in a particular subject area.
14. How do sites get to the top of a results' list in Google?
Google ranks results based on popularity. It counts the number of links from sites all around the Web. For example, if a large number of sites has a specific keyword somewhere on their Web site along with a link to a particular site, Google counts the number of times the keyword appears along with the number of links to a particular site. The higher number of links to a site, the higher Google will rank that site on a list of results.
On your own.
What do we know about Information Literacy?
I. Website Review
Skyhigh Airlines
Primate Programming Inc.
Eastern Active Technologies
P.T. Barnum
Location Earth Dog Tags
Talk to Aliens
Reemco
Kresky TV
McWhortle
The Penguin Conspiracy
II. The Real Truth
California's Velcro Crop under Challenge http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California? Use this fun site to help students separate fact from fiction on the web.
Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/
Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students. Have them click through the forward links on the site. Does the web site reference any other authors?
Dog Island Free Forever http://www.thedogisland.com/A puppy dog paradise. Great site for all ages.
Feline reactions to bearded men http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
A fun site to use when teaching kids how to validate web resources. Science teachers take note! This site pokes fun at the scientific method.
Martin Luther King http://www.martinlutherking.org/
This seemingly innocent web site address calls for the abolition of Martin Luther King Day and promotes White Pride. Content is inappropriate for all ages.
Stormfront: http://www.stormfront.org/
The publishers of this site also host the Martin Luther King site. It may be blocked by an Internet filter.
The Pacific Tree Forest Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
Does the Octopus really exist? A great site to use with all ages. Have students click through the links and read web addresses carefully.
Victorian Robots www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
A great site to use with all ages. It has even stumped historians. Have students truncate the web address so they are just left with the domain name, http://www.bigredhair.com/. This will give them some insight into the validity of this site.
Lesson Plan Activities:
How do you transfer what you just learned back to the classroom or your district? Below are some links to lesson plans or activities that you can do with your students.
After looking at some of these examples you can: a) create a plan to use one of these examples b) create your own lesson plan with the resources from the workshop c) create a plan to share this information with other people.
Lesson plans
Analyzing a Controversial Topic
Teaching With Documents
Visual Literacy
Deconstructing a Website
WHAT'S A WIKI
What’s a Wiki? A Wiki or wiki (pronounced wǐkē, wēkē or vēkē; see pronunciation section below) is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum but also allows anyone to edit the content. "Wiki" also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website
http://wikipedia.org/
IF TIME PERMITS:
Grade Level Skills Help Pages
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
THANK YOU!!
Resource Area
Evaluation Rubrics
Evaluating Web Resources
WWW Cyberguides
21st Century Skills
21st Century.org
Landmark Project
Plagiarism On The Net
The Quality Information Checklist
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Education Specific Search Engines
Specialized Searches
Search by any subject area
U.S. Department of Education Search Engine
Search on all education topics
Literature Search Engine
Math Search Engine
Multilingual Translation Portal
The Internet Public Library
WebQuest
Student Search Engines
Yahooligans
KidClick
Ask Jeeves for Kids
2. What is a blog?
Blog is short for weblog – it is literally a log of the Web.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
This blog started as a literary discussion forum on “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd (she even joined in the discussion!) http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/
Other free blog sites
www.blogger.com
www.blog.com
3. Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search?
Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results in the order you have specified. You would use them if you wanted to research a given phrase. For example, if you conduct a search for global warming, a search WITHOUT quotation marks would find sites that include the words “global” AND “warming” – the words do not have to appear together and you will get more hits than you probably want.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students use a search engine such as Teoma: http://www.teoma.com/ and search for a phrase, such as renewable resources without quotation marks, then with quotation marks. Have them note the differences in the number of results.
Activity:
Miserable Failure
In Google type in "miserable failure"
Miserable Failure Article
4. URL is an acronym for…
Uniform Resource Locator
5. Identify three Boolean search terms.
AND, OR, NOT
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students create example search queries using Boolean Operators.
6. How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?
Go to http://www.easywhois.com/ and enter the URL of the site you would like to research.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students find owner information for the site www.harrypotter.com
7. Identify these extensions and what they represent:
.org - organization
.com - company
.sch – school (used outside of US)
.k12 – most US school sites
.edu – US higher ed
.gov – US government (add country code for outside US)
.ac – higher ed outside of US usually used with country code, example, “.ac.uk”
.net - network
.mil – US military
.co – Company (if paired with a country code, example “.co.uk,” the state of Colorado or the country, Columbia)
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
It’s really important that students are familiar with these extensions. Create a match game or have them identify the extension within sample URLs.
8. How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site?
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and do a link: command search. In the search box type link:your school’s address.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
This is called searching for external links. You can search for the external links on any Website with the link command. Consider using some of the bogus Web sites. Look for a list on our Information Literacy page.
9. What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?
Look for a tilde “~” or the “%” sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and the first forward slash “/“
11. How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and type host:ac.za in the search box
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students::
Have students search for subject specific resources around the world using extensions and country codes. For a full list go to Computer User High-Tech Dictionary: http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/noframes/nf.domains.html
12. How do you find the history of any given Web site?
Use the Wayback Machine. Go to http://www.archive.org/ and type the URL of the web site you would like to research into the search box.
Wayback Machine
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students look at the history of the Harry Potter site: http://www.harrypotter.com/. Why has it changed so much over the years?
13. How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle.
Go to Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/ and type “host:edu + turtle” in the search box.
Follow-up Activities for Teachers and Students:
Have students search for school web sites in a particular subject area.
14. How do sites get to the top of a results' list in Google?
Google ranks results based on popularity. It counts the number of links from sites all around the Web. For example, if a large number of sites has a specific keyword somewhere on their Web site along with a link to a particular site, Google counts the number of times the keyword appears along with the number of links to a particular site. The higher number of links to a site, the higher Google will rank that site on a list of results.
On your own.
What do we know about Information Literacy?
I. Website Review
Skyhigh Airlines
Primate Programming Inc.
Eastern Active Technologies
P.T. Barnum
Location Earth Dog Tags
Talk to Aliens
Reemco
Kresky TV
McWhortle
The Penguin Conspiracy
II. The Real Truth
California's Velcro Crop under Challenge http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California? Use this fun site to help students separate fact from fiction on the web.
Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/
Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students. Have them click through the forward links on the site. Does the web site reference any other authors?
Dog Island Free Forever http://www.thedogisland.com/A puppy dog paradise. Great site for all ages.
Feline reactions to bearded men http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
A fun site to use when teaching kids how to validate web resources. Science teachers take note! This site pokes fun at the scientific method.
Martin Luther King http://www.martinlutherking.org/
This seemingly innocent web site address calls for the abolition of Martin Luther King Day and promotes White Pride. Content is inappropriate for all ages.
Stormfront: http://www.stormfront.org/
The publishers of this site also host the Martin Luther King site. It may be blocked by an Internet filter.
The Pacific Tree Forest Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
Does the Octopus really exist? A great site to use with all ages. Have students click through the links and read web addresses carefully.
Victorian Robots www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
A great site to use with all ages. It has even stumped historians. Have students truncate the web address so they are just left with the domain name, http://www.bigredhair.com/. This will give them some insight into the validity of this site.
Lesson Plan Activities:
How do you transfer what you just learned back to the classroom or your district? Below are some links to lesson plans or activities that you can do with your students.
After looking at some of these examples you can: a) create a plan to use one of these examples b) create your own lesson plan with the resources from the workshop c) create a plan to share this information with other people.
Lesson plans
Analyzing a Controversial Topic
Teaching With Documents
Visual Literacy
Deconstructing a Website
WHAT'S A WIKI
What’s a Wiki? A Wiki or wiki (pronounced wǐkē, wēkē or vēkē; see pronunciation section below) is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum but also allows anyone to edit the content. "Wiki" also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website
http://wikipedia.org/
IF TIME PERMITS:
Grade Level Skills Help Pages
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
THANK YOU!!
Resource Area
Evaluation Rubrics
Evaluating Web Resources
WWW Cyberguides
21st Century Skills
21st Century.org
Landmark Project
Plagiarism On The Net
The Quality Information Checklist
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Education Specific Search Engines
Specialized Searches
Search by any subject area
U.S. Department of Education Search Engine
Search on all education topics
Literature Search Engine
Math Search Engine
Multilingual Translation Portal
The Internet Public Library
WebQuest
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