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Information Literacy: Guiding Student Research
Lessons Learned throughThe Maine Learning Technology Initiative
Barbara GreenstoneMLTI Statewide Integration Mentor
What is MLTI?•Statewide 1-1 computing in 7th and 8th
grade
•Teacher laptops in high school
• Wireless networks in all middle schools
•Technical support
•Leadership teams
•Professional development
•Communication and collaboration
•Research and assessment of the program
One-to-one changes
everything!•Ubiquitous access to information
•Opportunities for more inquiry-based learning
•Increased communication and collaboration
The ability to find, evaluate, and use digital and print information effectively
and ethically is essential.
Lessons Learned•Research is a process that must be
explicitly taught, modeled and practiced.
•We must assess the process as well as the product and have checkpoints along the way.
•Collaboration with the school’s Library Media Specialist is key.
What might the process look like?•There are many models and
variations.
•The Big 6
•The Research Cycle (Jamie McKenzie)
•All incorporate basic steps.
•The process is recursive, not linear.
Essential Questions
•Provide a purpose for inquiry
•Engage students
•Guide the process
•Lead to foundation questions that help determine what information is necessary
Finding Resources• Print Resources
•Web Sites
•MARVEL
• “Invisible” Web
•Digital Partners
• Podcasts
• Television Shows
•Movies
• Surveys
• Interviews
Gathering Information
•Search strategies
•Evaluating resources
•Notetaking
Citing Sources
•Copyright and plagiarism
•Citation and bibliography tools
•Many online tools
•Source Aid
Organizing, Analyzing,
Synthesizing
•Graphic organizers
•Looking for patterns
•Revisiting the essential question
Creating a Product
• Pamplets
• Brochures
• Photo Essays
•Comics
•Maps
Possible Products
• Slide Shows
• Presentations
•Web Pages
• Videos
• Podcasts
Assessing the Process
• Essential Question
• Foundation Questions
• Possible Sources List
• Search Strategy
• Annotated Bibliography
•Notes
•Works Cited
Checkpoints•Organizing Outline
or Web
• First Draft
• Final Editing
• Plans for Publishing or Sharing
• Final Product
Tools We Use•Graphic Organizers
•Citation and Bibliography Tools
•Databases for Notes
•NoteShare
•Comic Life
•GarageBand
• KeyNote
• iPhoto
• iMovie
•MyWorld
• iChat
Importance of Library Media
Specialists•Information specialists.
•Overview of curriculum across grade levels.
•Collaboration and team teaching.
To Learn More• About information literacy
• IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project
• About MLTI
• http://www.maine.gov/mlti/
• http://www.mainelearns.org
• Teaching & Learning > Across the Curriculum > Information Literacy