Online databases and Media LiteracyAmy PowerFebruary 2013

School Library Collections & Educational Technology

School libraries contribute two types of information resources to teaching and learning by school libraries: books and periodicals, and databases accessed via the Internet.

This includes both free content on the World Wide Web and licensed databases to which the library must subscribe for a fee.

Both types of resources exhibited persistent, positive influences on students’ test scores.

http://www.islma.org/pdf/ILStudy2.pdf

The Illinois Study: Powerful Libraries Make Powerful Learners

You Tube video eLibrary Curriculum Edition in 2 Minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQgN1Ndp58

eLibrary….why it matters Quality (or lack thereof) of Wikipedia

entries Critical evaluation: criteria of suitability

(scope, audience, timeliness), authority, and other indicators (documentation, objectivity, and primary vs. secondary research). 

The Digital Divide

Kids Closer Up: Playing, Learning, and Growing with Digital Media by Lori Takeuchi

“Today the digital divide resides in differential ability to use new media to critically evaluate information, analyze, and interpret data, attack complex problems, test innovative solutions, manage multifaceted projects, collaborate with others in knowledge production. and communicate effectively to diverse audiences-in that are at the heart of the new economy."

SNAP statisticsfrom AEA

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ashnk6874Jk7dF9xUUtwWjlROFhXU3QycXhEWE9ROXc&usp=sharing

Trial Online AEA databases http://

www.iec-ia.org/pages/IEC/Library/Online_Resources/Online_Resource_Trials

February 18-March 31User ID: iec2013Password: iowaaea

Research Project Calculator

Research Project Calendar https://rpc.elm4you.org/

Media Literacy Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze,

evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to

education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.

http://www.medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more

What is Media Literacy?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKlJOxwyMWU

Transliteracy and the School Library Program Transliteracy is the ability to read, write,

and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

Information literacy skills are but one component of the range of skills students need in order to participate as consumers and producers in the current information landscape.

Continued… Teacher librarians help develop

strategies for integrating transliteracy skills into subject areas across the curriculum.

Students should know a range of transliteracy skills demonstrating that youth learn in the contemporary online environment.

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/category/tags/transliteracy-and-school-library-program

Questions for teachers What is one online database that I could

try in the classroom before the end of the school year?

Think about media literacy and what it means in terms of instructional practices and applications for your students based on the knowledge in your content area.

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Play time Take time to explore the options that

eLibrary offers Check out current and trial databases

from AEA. Let me know if eLibrary is something

should continue for next year.