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The Tangled WebTeaching Evaluation & Citation Skills to the

iPod Generation

Isn’t this an

exciting time to bea librarian?

We are living in a“dream come true”age of instantinformation

retrieval.



But - It Is Also An Age of Instant

Mis information Retrieval

The amount of information can

be overwhelming



Try searching Google

for information oncocaine. Be sure to

take a look at

cocaine.org - which

shows up in the top

10 results of every

search engine I have

tried.

The “quality” of the sites can be

positively frightening.

http://www.google.com/

http://www.google.com/



What about this student assignment?

Create an anti-drug ad campaign. Include a

3 page report about one particular drug.

Open Google, search for cocaine and look atthe first 10 results. Evaluate the

hits using the following grading scale:

1. Very reliable information

2. Somewhat reliable - could be

inaccuracies, need to check other

sources to be sure

3. Only marginally useful

(Very superficial or 1 sided information)

4. Reliable - but not useful

for this project

5. Largely Unreliable (many inaccuraciesand/or extremely biased viewpoints)



The Challenge For

Educators

Students rarely question the

quality of Internet sources

The “copy & paste” mentality

makes it very easy to

plagiarize

Students depend on the web

as their main source of

information, & use books as

a last resort



More Challenges

Our students are

struggling with citation

skills

Students do not know how

to evaluate what they read

Teenagers think they know

everything about the

Internet



How Will We Meet the

Challenge?

Recognize thatteenagers do not

know everything

about the Internet

Ask Superlibrarian!!



How Will We Meet the

Challenge?

Find ways to

capture studentattention



Meeting the Challenges….

Do not allow students

the freedom to drown

in a sea of information.

Insist that they use

books, periodicals and

other sources - not just the ‘Net.

Superlibrarian

Information Expert!




Teach students

how to avoid

plagiarism

Teach them citation

skills

Teach them

evaluation skills.

Superlibrarian

Information Expert!




And most of all….

Hold studentsaccountable

for the skills

you teachthem!

Superlibrarian

Information Expert!



How Can Librarians Hold

Students Accountable?

By teachingcitation andevaluation skills atevery opportunity

By integrating our

teaching into allstudent researchprojects



Holding Students Accountable

But mostly...

By grading thestudents to makesure that they

actuallylearn theskills we teach



Grading a Works Cited List

Use a Works Cited Rubric that

measures: Citation Format

Quality of Sources Cited

Here is a sample rubric:

http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/rubric.htm











How To Use A Rubric to Teach

Citation & Evaluation

Create an

instructional unitbased on the rubric

Choose

“benchmark”

projects to teach the

unit and grade the

works cited lists



Teaching The Unit

It is a good idea to

teach your

citation/evaluation

unit to 9th & 12th

graders

Meet with yourteachers to make

detailed plans



A Sample Citation/Evaluation Unit

This is a unit planned for amajor 9th grade ResearchPaper. It is a collaborativeproject between the Libraryand the English Department atthe Ruben A. Cirillo High School

http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/9thresearch.htm










Too Overwhelming?

More Ways T o Make th e Task Easier

Teach unit to just one of each

teacher’s classes. The teacher then

teaches the remaining classes

Condense the works cited rubric

Do an in-service workshop to teach

the teachers

Randomly grade a certain number of

papers from every class



Benefits of Grading Students On

Citation and Evaluation Skills

Student works cited

lists will improve

It raises the

students’ level of

concern

Students listen

more attentively



Benefits…..

More students use

citation forms

voluntarily for other

research assignments

A greater number of

students use books &

periodicals Students develop a

healthy skepticism

about what they read



More Benefits…..

Students have to think

about the sources they

use

Students use more (and

better quality) sources

It helps our students

who struggle withlearning by giving credit

for assembling excellent

quality sources



Other Benefits…..

Librarian can usethe data to improveteaching

“Real life”

examples can beused in futurelessons



Still More Benefits…..

Teachers learn

evaluation &

citation skills along

with their students

More teachers

require books &periodicals as well

as web pagesSuperlibrarian

Information Expert!



Benefits…..

Students will eventually

realize that you DOknow what you are

talking about…. You

might have an email

exchange like thisone….



1st EMAIL FROM STUDENT:

i would like to get these tickets for aconcert next thursday but i dont

know if the web site is legit i didsome searching to see if it was orwasent i didnt have any luck i waswondering if you could figure it outfor me?

heres the web site

|V

http://www.aaaticketsource.com/

ResultsTicket.aspx?evtid=336969

http://www.aaaticketsource.com/ResultsTicket.aspx?evtid=336969












SuperLibrarian To The

Rescue! I told him that the site looked

like an online ticket scalper &suggested he tryTicketmaster.

Superlibrarian

Information Expert!

Ozzfest tickets from Ticketmaster?

$96

Ozzfest tickets from Online

Ticket Scalper? $300

Knowing when to call a librarian?

Priceless!



2nd EMAIL FROM STUDENT:

thank you so so much you rockmore than the concert im goingto lol thanks for the link also iknew i could count on you, okhave a great fun and book filledsummer!

Do we have a great job or what?!!



NOW – LET’S PRACTICE!!

I have 5 works cited

lists to practice on– the creations of 5real students.

Some are GOOD

Some are BAD

And some are truly UGLY



GRADING WORKS CITED

The packets will haveall the directions andforms that you will need

to help you out with theprocess.

Pay more attention tothe quality & variety of

the sources than theactual format.

If you have time –

correct the formatting



LET’S SHARE!!

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Activity 4

Activity 5

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