WHAT THE LIBRARY CAN DO FOR YOU!

“Help us Help you”

The Standards for the 21st-Century Learner

1. inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge;

2. draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge;

3. share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society;

4. pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

describe how learners use skills, resources, and tools to:

These standards relate to your curriculum

What language?

Examples:

• select and use appropriate technologies to gather, process, and analyze data and to report information related to an investigation (Science standards)

• obtaining and processing information by selecting, categorizing, and analyzing from sources (Foreign Language standard)

These standards relate to your curriculum

Examples:

• apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing (Reading and writing standards)

• using historical information to interpret and evaluate decisions or policies regarding contemporary issues (History standards)

These standards relate to your curriculum

Examples:

- investigating the time, cost, available technology and participation requirements involved in a choice of physical activities (P.E. standards)

- become mathematical problem solvers. To be problem solvers, students need to know how to find ways to reach a goal when no routine path is apparent (Math standards)

aka “Standards OS 1.0”

The BIG6 Research Model

RATIONALE

• teach information and technology skills

• most widely-known and widely-used approach in the

world

• applicable whenever people need and use information

• systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate

information

• help students to work smarter

• focuses on process as well as content

Step 1. Task Definition

1.1 Define the information problem

Formulate the initial problem/question

Establish focus

1.2 Identify information needed

Brainstorm

Identify keywords

Explore general sources

What we can offer you for this step:

• Lesson planning

• Essential questions

• KWL chart and other graphic organizers

• Keyword organizers (synonyms, antonyms)

• Teachers’ websites

• Delicious (your bookmarks online)

Step 2. Information Seeking Strategies

2.1 Determine all possible sources

Books, Encyclopedias, Databases, Internet, etc.

2.2 Select the best sources

the most relevant, accurate information

the quickest access

What we can offer you for this step:

• Book carts

• Library catalog (keepers: bibliography)

• Database navigation and teacher tools

• Internet searches, Webquests

• ILL: interlibrary loan

• Library website

• United Streaming (assignment builder)

• Web 2.0 tools

Step 3. Location and Access

3.1 Locate sources

Where can I find each source?

3.2 Find information within sources

How do I use the source the most efficiently?

Where is the relevant information within each source?

What we can offer you for this step:

• Library orientation

• Database flyers (off-campus)

• Speed reading techniques

• Advanced Search strategies

Step 4. Use of Information

4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view, touch)

How will information be recorded?

4.2 Extract relevant information

Look at relevancy and validity.

What we can offer you for this step:

• Note-taking

• Citations

• Plagiarism

• Evaluating websites

• Navigating the network

• G-mail

Step 5. Synthesis

5.1 Organize from multiple sources

5.2 Present the information

Who/What is the audience?

What is the medium of presentation?

What we can offer you for this step:

• Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki’s, Picasa, Nings, Flickr …

• Digital cameras• Video cameras• Microphones• Webcams• PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Excel

Step 6. Evaluation

6.1 Judge the product

Has the problem/question been solved/answered?

Does the final product match the task?

6.2 Judge the process

How can it be better the next time?

What we can offer you for this step:

• Self-evaluation forms

• One-on-one time with students and teachers

• IL assessments (citations, bibliographies,

rubrics)

• Instant feedback

The Big 6

• consistent school-wide vocabulary

• gets students organized (structure)

• easy step-by-step approach

• awareness for different options or sources of

information

• applicable to all subject areas across grade levels

• best learned when integrated with classroom

curriculum and activities

COLLABORATION

Meet NGHS mission for 2008-09: To develop a culture of trust, collaboration, and shared leadership.

Collaboration between teachers and librarians brings additional energy, expertise and creativity to

planning instructional activities.

Schools with quality school library programs and professional staffing show 8 to 21% better CSAP

scores than schools without such programs.

Credits

Created by Rita Stephenson

The "Big6™ copyright © (1987) Michael B " is. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz.

For more information, visit: www.big6.com