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The Big6: Information & Technology Skills

The Big6: Information & Technology Skills. for Student Success (Day 2). Rob Darrow Robdarrow@cusd.com. A Little About Me. Educator, 26 years (Grades K-8) LMT at intermediate school (7-8) that now has over 700 students carrying laptop computers to school Big6 user and trainer - 11 years

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The Big6: Information & Technology Skills

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  1. The Big6:Information & Technology Skills for Student Success (Day 2) Rob Darrow Robdarrow@cusd.com

  2. A Little About Me • Educator, 26 years (Grades K-8) • LMT at intermediate school (7-8) that now has over 700 students carrying laptop computers to school • Big6 user and trainer - 11 years • Coordinator, Online high school and Teaching American History • History Day coach

  3. A Little About You • Librarians (+20, 15-20, 10-15, less 5) • What did you used to teach? • Subjects (history, English, science, math, special ed, admin/resource teachers, library, other?)

  4. My Thoughts • In an information rich society, you need more trained professionals • Students NEED trained teachers and professionals to guide them in how to use information – both print and digital • More critical to have trained teachers guiding students in the use of information than ever before

  5. The Big 6 - It’s all about… • The use of information • Organizing information • Sifting information • Producing quality information • Teaching kids how to do this so they achieve!

  6. Big6 Quiz • Your results • Why the Big6? • How would you explain the Big6? • Application in variety of areas • What did you learn from Bob?

  7. Others Thoughts from Others About Information…

  8. Thomas Jefferson Information is the currency of democracy.

  9. Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. • June 14, 1989

  10. Timothy Leary In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show. - Feb 1989

  11. Pauline KaelArt Critic Newsweek/The New Yorker In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. - 1973

  12. Why?Some other opinions

  13. Opportunity • Calvin and Hobbes cartoon • “Then forget it!” • BC cartoon: “Define Learn”

  14. Why do this? • To meet the needs of the teachers and students in our schools … and guide them in acquiring the information literacy skills they need…at any time, from any where.

  15. Goals for Today • Review the Big6. • Focus on the “Micro” (Bob did the Macro) • Lesson Planning. • How does it look in every day use? • Write Big6 lessons that fit your subject. • Integrate the Big6 with the web

  16. Big6 Plan of Action /Implementation Handout • Identify what you already do • Identify what you would like to do • Possible collaborators (name the teachers)

  17. Information & Technology Literacy The Big6™ Skills 1. Task Definition 2. Info Seeking Strategies 3. Location & Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation

  18. Information Literacy “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” American Library Association (1989)

  19. Information Literacy and the Big6…A little history • 1436 - Printing Press • 1776 – Declaration of Independence • 1803 - 1806 – Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark; • 1860-1864 – Civil War • 1917 – World War I • 1941 – World War II • 1972 – First personal computer • 1974 – The term “information literacy” first used • 1980 – Internet • 1987 – Big6 Framework Published • 1992 – World Wide Web

  20. Big6 Translates Information Literacy Skills into Systematic Stages “Simple yet complex.”

  21. Handbook p. 33 InfoLit The Big6 Skills The Super 3 The Little 12 Skills

  22. Big6 Practice – Big6 Handbook • Pages: 42-45

  23. The Big6 Card Activity • Acronym: TILUSE • Task Definition • Information Seeking Strategies • Location and Access • Use of Information • Synthesis • Evaluation

  24. BREAK

  25. Group Big6 Lesson • Discuss the Big6 homework you completed for Bob • How did it work? • How would you compare the same lesson without using the Big6?

  26. Group Big6 Lesson • Note: A Big6 lesson usually focuses on one stage of the Big6 • E.g. Science research project • Develop a Big6 Lesson

  27. Instructional Design and PlanningMicro and Macro • Read Around p. 71 - 72

  28. Implementation Strategies • Context: the process • information problem solving - the Big6 • Context: technology in context • technology within the process • Context: curriculum • real needs in real situations • assignments: papers, reports, projects • skills x unit matrix

  29. Big 6 –Going to the movies An implementation strategy…visiting classrooms – use Big6 Bookmark

  30. Micro Planning - Guidelines • View your existing units and lessons in relation to the Big6. • Explain assignments in a Big6 perspective. • Focus on different Big6 stages with different lessons. • Examples?

  31. “Big Juicies”p. 106 Important units in the curriculum: • have a longer duration • reach many students • involve a report, project, or product • use multiple resources • involve a range of teaching methods

  32. Macro Planning – p. 151-163 • Schoolwide – librarian’s job • In groups: • what are the “big juicies” in your school? • On your own – (implementation ideas) • Think about your school • Jot down 5 “big juicies” for fall and spring – any subject/any teacher

  33. Standardized Testing in Georgia? • Grade levels? Subjects?

  34. Standardized Testing • How does information literacy and the Big6 fit into testing? • Handbook p. 136-137 – homework organizer

  35. Technology Okay, but what about technology?

  36. Cartoon • “Our teacher is getting smarter…yesterday she gave us homework we couldn’t even find on the Internet.”

  37. Background StatisticsInformation • Today, the amount of information in the world doubles every two years. • In the year 2010, it is predicted that the amount of information will double every 72 hours.

  38. Background StatisticsInternet • According to a recent UCLA study (2003): • Internet use at every age continues to increase – and in some age ranges, access approaches 100 percent. • http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

  39. Ages 12-18 UCLA Internet Report. http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

  40. Internet Users By States Oct 2003 Sept 2001 • A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age. • U.S. Department of Commerce. September 2004.

  41. Background StatisticsChildren and Internet • Three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17 go online several times each week (17 million). • Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001, www.pewinternet.org • Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S. • Tapscott (1998). Growing Up Digital . • More school-age children in the nation use computers at school than at home. • Newburger (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.

  42. National Ed Tech Plan 2004 • Internet Use is growing the fastest among children, ages 2-5. (2002 UCLA Internet Report) • 1999 NCES Report: • 72 percent of all first graders used a home computer on a weekly basis during the summer • 97 percent of kindergarteners had access to a computer at school or home • www.nationaledtechplan.org

  43. National Ed Tech Plan 2004 • Teens spend more time online using the Internet than watching television. • 94 percent of online teens use the Internet for school-related research.

  44. Challenge: Quality In a study of 500 Web sites used by Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research! Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html

  45. Internet “Blogs” • The number of “web logs” or blogs is doubling in size every 6 months. • Now, more than 7.8 million blogs. • Check out MySpace.com or Xanga.com for teen blogs. • MySpace gets twice the number of daily hits than Google

  46. The world we live in… Digital kids and Analog Adults Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

  47. Children and Internet: The Facts • High school students today:first generation to grow up on the Internet • Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it

  48. An example… Bedtime Story Cartoon on computer

  49. The Solution? • Don’t use technology or the Internet? • Discourage Web Use? • Filtering?

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