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Preparing 21 st Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries

Preparing 21 st Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries. INFOhio-OhioLINK Task Force. INFORMATION LITERACY EVOLUTION. What is being information literate?. Literacy implies more than vocabulary awareness; It requires critical thinking.

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Preparing 21 st Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries

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  1. Preparing 21st Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries INFOhio-OhioLINK Task Force

  2. INFORMATION LITERACY EVOLUTION What is being information literate? Literacy implies more than vocabulary awareness; It requires critical thinking.

  3. INFORMATION LITERACY EVOLUTION Information communications technologies change everything, transforming organizations and redefining the skills and talents necessary for 21st century success.

  4. 21st Century students must be able to purposefully access information from a variety of sources, analyze and evaluate the information and then integrate it to construct a personal knowledge base from which to make intelligent decisions.1 1 Murray, Janet. Looking at ICT Literacy Standards Through the Big6TM Lens. Library Media Connection. April/May 2008. p.36

  5. Information Literacy Standards: K-12 American Association of School Librarians: • Information Power • Standards for the 21st Century Learner Ohio Academic Content Standards • Library and Technology Standard for Information Literacy • Information Literacy aligned to Core Content Standards

  6. Information Literacy Standards: Higher Education Association of College and Research Libraries: • Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

  7. Ohio Board of Regents: Strategic Plan for Higher Education, 2008-2017 Relationship with K-12 System: • Establishing Clear Standards of College Readiness • Helping High School Students Aspire and Prepare for College [Early College Credit and Seniors to Sophomores Program] • No Dropouts - Combined High School Completion / College Readiness Courses • Improving Teacher Education and Expanding the Role of Education Schools http://uso.edu/strategicplan/handbook/uso/k12.php

  8. Ohio Department of Education: Top Ten List of Skills for the Global Economy (selected) 1.   Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and applied knowledge for practical results 2.   Mastery of rigorous academic content, especially in literacy, mathematics, and information technologies 9.   Communications and better interfaces between K-12 public education and post-secondary/higher education to make high school graduates better prepared for the next stages of their education and lives* 10. Teacher education, preparation, and professional development to support content mastery and skill development, including applied learning (or problem-based learning) across disciplines in a global context* *While these items are not necessarily knowledge, skills or behaviors, they were among the top 10 responses and address changes needed in Ohio's education system. http://education.ohio.gov/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=367

  9. Taking Action INFOhio and OhioLINK collaboration Creating a Task Force with combined K-12 and academic librarian membership

  10. Why the Task Force? • Initiatives within Ohio for more college graduates • Importance of information literacy across K-20 • Role that librarians and libraries play • Working relationship between INFOhio and OhioLINK

  11. Work of the Task Force • Review of the current educational environment • Identifying the opportunity for librarians to stake out their territory and role • Development of white paper • Drafting of action plans • Putting the plans into action

  12. http://www.infohio.org/12-13TransitionWhitePaper200809.pdf

  13. Premise of the White Paper • 21st Century students must be information literate. • K-12 & academic librarians, already uniquely positioned to impact student success by supporting teaching and learning by providing quality information that serves student needs • Cannot be assumed that because today’s students have grown up in a digital age, they are competent information seekers and users.

  14. Premise of the White Paper • Students regurgitate rather than use information. • Learning the mechanics not the art of research. • High School Leadership summit – addressing what would make the transition to post secondary education more successful and ultimately increase the graduation rate.

  15. Research Evidence • A 2006 study done by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) found that both college-bound high school students and college students “sorely” lacked the skills needed to retrieve, analyze and communicate information online. Foster, A.L. (2006, October 27). Students fall short on ‘information literacy,’ Educational Testing Service’s study finds. Chronicle of Higher Education, 53, A36.

  16. Research Evidence Beyond the Three Rs : Voter Attitudes toward 21st Century Skills. (2007). Retrieved October 16, 2008, from The Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.newtechfoundation.org/press_research/US%20students%20need%2021st%20Century.pdf • “A virtually unanimous 99 percent of voters say that teaching students a wide range of 21st century skills—including critical thinking and problem-solving skills, computer and technology skills, and communication and self-direction skills—is important to our country’s future economic success.”

  17. Research Evidence Horton, F. W., Jr. (2008). Understanding information literacy: A primer. Retrieved October 16, 2008, from UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001570/157020E.pdf Increasingly, the concept of information literacy is considered as crucially important to enable people to deal with the challenge of making good use of information and communication technology.

  18. White Paper Goal #1 • Audit process in place for preparing students • Develop guidelines for information research processes • Create awareness and develop best practice plan to advocate information literacy • Develop inquiry-based program to teach high school students 1. Teachall Ohio high school students 21st century information literacy skills

  19. White Paper Goal # 2 2. Incorporate robust research experiences into classroom teaching strategies • Create professional development opportunities • Design collaborative research projects between high school and college classrooms

  20. White Paper Goal #3 • Joint INFOhio/OhioLINK group to recommend needed research resources 3. Provide students and educators with free and equitable access to an essential academic core collection of online and physical library materials

  21. White Paper Goal #4 4. Preparation of student teachers must include 21st century information literacy skills • Determine what Ohio’s education faculty currently deliver pertaining to 21st century information literacy skills

  22. White Paper Goal #5 • Ascertain which state initiatives and advocacy groups to contact and begin developing a partnership of collaboration 5. Partner with state initiatives and advocacy groups

  23. White Paper Goal #6 • Determine all possible cross-meeting linkages and develop others 6. Provide school and academic librarians opportunities to work together to develop collaborations

  24. Examples of Practice • High school students visit a college or university library as part of a class project: • Emily Zauss Colpi, Library Media Specialist at Mariemont High School, and Christie Hoffman, Library Media Specialist at Hicksville Exempted Village Schools, reported how their students are initiated using nearby university libraries. • University librarians participate in workshops and other continuing education opportunities with school librarians and PreK-12 teachers: • At Shawnee State, for the summer 2008 Ohio WINS (Writing Institute Network for Success), area teachers and library media specialists participated in a program focusing on how to collaborate in using academic research databases and TRAILS (Tools for Real Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills.)

  25. Examples of Practice Transforming Lives Patricia Owen – Eastwood Local Schools Megan Oakleaf – Syracuse University

  26. Please Contact Us Diane Dillon, CIO (Coordinator of Library Media Services) Nordonia Hills City Schools Macedonia, Ohio diane.dillon@nordoniaschools.org Barbara Schloman, TRAILS Project Director Kent State University Kent, Ohio bschloma@kent.edu

  27. Background Resources • Scholastic's School Libraries Work 2008:   http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/s/slw3_2008.pdf • National Center on Education and the Economy's Tough Choices or Tough Times Executive Summary:   http://www.skillscommission.org/pdf/exec_sum/ToughChoices_EXECSUM.pdf • Educational Testing Service's (ETC) Digital Transformation: A Framework for ITC Literacy document:  http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/Information_and_Communication_Technology_Literacy/ictreport.pdf • Ohio Seniors to Sophomores initiative: http://uso.edu/opportunities/seniors2soph/index.php

  28. Standards • AASL's Standards for 21st Century Learners: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf • ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education:  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/standards.pdf • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)  National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)  http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS • Ohio Department of Education Library Guidelines:   http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=17338 • Ohio Department of Education Technology Standards:  http://www.ode.state.oh.us/gd/gd.aspx?Page=3&TopicRelationID=339&Content=12663

  29. Information Literacy Assessment • Project SAILS (higher education assessment) https://www.projectsails.org/ • TRAILS (6th, 9th grades) http://www.trails-9.org/

  30. High School to College Transition • Transitioning to College: http:www.transitioning2college.org/ • “10 Things First-Year Students Should Know About Using College Libraries” http://www.transitioning2college.org/documents/brians_top_10_firstyear_001.pdf

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