Get ‘Em Coming and Going:

1. Get ‘Em Coming and Going: An Interactive Information Literacy Workshop for Pre-Service Teachers Jenny Innes Ruth Haas Library Western Connecticut State University June 2006

2. My Question: How can I turn a run of the mill b.i. into something new and different?

3. Time to offer… an information literacyworkshop! ** note the scintillating new branding concept ☺**

4. Featuring: • A fun and engaging information literacy online tutorial • An exciting presentation on information literacy/Big6™ • Group activities and lots of sharing

5. The Course • Curriculum Strategies for Elementary Education (required for B.S. degree in Elementary Education) • Two sections: • social studies • science • Course assignment: develop a thematic unit in chosen area

6. Goals of the Workshop • To ensure that pre-service teachers have information literacy skills they need • To provide them with ideas and tools to incorporate information literacy into their own classroom instruction.

7. But how can this workshop offer a learning experience that’s new and different?

8. Dr. Idahlynn Karre, proponent of Cooperative Learning, to the rescue!

9. What is Cooperative Learning according to Idahlynn? Classroom experiences that stress: • Individual student responsibility within • a framework of positive interdependence • focus on small group learning

10. Further, she defines it as a: • Learner-centered instructional process in which… • Small intentionally selected teams • Work together on a well-defined • Learning task for the primary purpose of • Increasing mastery of course content. (Karre, 1996)

11. Benefits of Cooperative Learning:Academic Achievement • Reinforces learning and information processing • Active instead of passive learning • Knowledge is created, not just transferred • Empowers students to be responsible for their own learning.

12. Benefits of Cooperative Learning: Social and Affective • Turns emotional passivity into emotional energy • Builds relational support among students • Develops group processing and social skills • Increases student self-esteem • Creates a sense of classroom community • Provides opportunities for understanding and appreciating diversity among students.

13. Active Learning is critical. • “In general, people retain little of what they hear in a classroom or other learning environment unless they become actively involved in the learning process and apply the new knowledge to specific problem solving.” (Rader, 1997)

14. Get ‘Em Coming…(engage students from the start) Students required to complete TIP tutorial before attending workshop

15. Scenes from TIP: Tutorial for Information Power…

16. Information Literacy • To be information literate is… to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. (ALA, 1989)

17. Why is IL important? Let the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus tell you why!

18. More reasons why information literacy is critical • Students need to learn how to think • Students need to become information problem solvers • Technology is a means, not an end.

19. Big6™: Information Skills for Student Achievement

20. Why introduce Big6™? • Provides a fun, memorable and accessible framework for K-12 students to follow • Can be used in the library, media center, classroom or computer lab • An easy way to incorporate information literacy standards into instruction.

21. Big6™ Skills • Task Definition • Information Seeking Strategies • Location and Access • Use of Information • Synthesis • Evaluation (Thank you, Mike & Bob!)

22. Get ‘Em Going… Workshop goals match institutional goals: Graduate lifelong learners ready to work cooperatively to solve the world’s problems.