Rob Darrow ([email protected]), CTAP TLA Region IV, Hayward, July 2002. On the Web with Information Literacy and the Big6™ Rob Darrow August, 2002

Rob Darrow ([email protected]), CTAP TLA Region IV, Hayward, July 2002.

On the Web with On the Web with Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

and the Big6™and the Big6™

Rob DarrowAugust, 2002


Welcome to a Welcome to a new school new school

year!year!

• A bookmark for you to use…

BIG6!BOOKMARK

Task Definition

Information Seeking Strategies

Location and Access

Use of Information

Synthesis

Evaluation


HandoutsHandouts

• Search the Web WebQuest• Big6 Web Guide• Web Literate Stages• Big6 Template and Assignment

Organizer from Website


BookBook

•The Big6 in Elementary Schools


Web sites to Web sites to rememberremember

• www.cusd.com/calonline/infolit• www.big6.com


BC CartoonBC CartoonWhat is learning?What is learning?


Who am Who am I? I?

• Big Trees State Park, Santa Cruz


Who am Who am I? I?

• Born in Santa CruzBorn in Santa Cruz• Educator, 22 years (Taught K-8)Educator, 22 years (Taught K-8)• Clovis, Kerman, Hollister, Riverside, Clovis, Kerman, Hollister, Riverside, • Library Media Teacher, Alta Sierra Library Media Teacher, Alta Sierra

Intermediate – 5 yearsIntermediate – 5 years• Coordinate Online High School CoursesCoordinate Online High School Courses

– Just finished plan for state virtual school (Just finished plan for state virtual school (www.cusd.com/calvhs)

• VP Educational Technology, VP Educational Technology, Cal School Library AssociationCal School Library Association

• 12 year old daughter starting 712 year old daughter starting 7thth grade grade


My PerspectiveMy Perspective• In an information rich society, we

need to be trained how to decide what information is important and which is not ( ( this is “information literacy” ) “information literacy” )

• Students NEED trained professionals to guide them in how to use information – both print and digital

• Teachers should integrate the use of technology daily into their lessons at every grade level



Are you Info Lit?Are you Info Lit?

• Go to www.cusd.com/calonline/infolit

• Click on: Are you Info Lit? and take the quiz.


Information LiteracyInformation 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



How much information How much information is there in the world?is there in the world?

• ““The amount of information The amount of information available in the world available in the world

doubles every doubles every twotwo years.” years.”• David Thornburg, CUE 1997

• (www.tcpd.org)


Info Overload:Info Overload:Dilemmas of the Information Dilemmas of the Information

AgeAge• Information overload,

information anxiety– just too much “stuff”; people

can’t keep up.•Needle in a haystack

– surrounded by information, but...– can never seem to find what we

want, when we want it, in the form we want it.


“More new information has been produced in the

last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.”

(Source: Large, P., The Micro Revolution, Revisited, 1984)

Increasing AmountIncreasing Amountof Informationof Information


Today, a daily New York Times has more

information in it than a person would come across in an entire lifetime in the 17th

Century.David Lewis. “Introduction to Dying for Information,” www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996

Information Overload:Information Overload:PrintPrint


Number of WWW pages

doubles every 40-50 days!!

1996, USA Today

Information Overload:Information Overload:The InternetThe Internet

A new web page is published every

4 minutes


Technology OverloadTechnology Overload

Moore’s Law: Computing power doubles every 18 months!

Computers depreciate 1% a week!


OverloadOverloadTrying to keep upTrying to keep up

• According to a recent UCLA study (2000):– by 1997, some 19 million Americans were

using the Internet. That number tripled in one year, and then passed 100 million in 1999.

– In the first quarter of 2000, more than five million Americans joined the online world – • roughly 55,000 new users each day• 2,289 new users each hour, or • 38 new users each minute.

•www.ccp.ucla.edu


“Not now, Chrissy. Your father and I are

in the middle of a PTA meeting.”

An Example…cartoon


Trying to keep Trying to keep up...up...

Kids on the Kids on the InternetInternet

More than 17 million teens, or More than 17 million teens, or three-fourths of all U.S. kids three-fourths of all U.S. kids

ages 12 to 17, go online each ages 12 to 17, go online each month, according to market month, according to market

research firm Cyber Dialogue. research firm Cyber Dialogue. – July, 2001July, 2001

“Teenage Life Online.” www.pewinternet.org/


Trying to keep Trying to keep up...up...

Kids on the Kids on the InternetInternet

High school students today are High school students today are first generation to grow up on first generation to grow up on the Internetthe Internet

Students internalize technology Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt use, while adults have to adopt itit


An Example…cartoon

Bedtime Stories.com


Web Commission Report Web Commission Report to Congress (Dec. 2000) to Congress (Dec. 2000)

““The question is no longer The question is no longer if if the the Internet can be used to transform Internet can be used to transform

learning in new and powerful learning in new and powerful ways. The Commission has ways. The Commission has

found that it found that it cancan.”.”

--The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Report of the Web Based Commission to The President and the Congress of the United States. December, 2000.

www.hpcnet.org/webcommission


Web Commission Web Commission Report to Congress Report to Congress

(Dec. 2000)(Dec. 2000)

• 50% of all employees skills become outdated within 3 to 5 years.

• …what counts most for instructional purposes is classroom connectivity, providing student access to Internet connections where they learn—in the classroom

• Learning environments should be centered around knowledge, learners, social interactions, and assessment


Growing Up Digital Growing Up Digital (Tapscott 1998): N-Gen LearningN-Gen Learning

• Linear hypermedia• Instruction construction/discovery• Teacher-centered learner-centered• School as torture school as fun• Teacher transmitter teacher facilitator• School learning lifelong learning

Paradigm shiftParadigm shift in learning from... in learning from...

www.growingupdigital.com


Overload and EducationOverload and Education

•Everything! Learning & teaching are fundamentally information-based activities.

•Everything! Information overload & technology affect every aspect of education.

But what does this have to do with us? With education? With learning &

teaching?


The new A, B, C’s…cartoon

See: Randy Glasbergen cartoons

www.glasbergen.com


The Solution?The Solution?

• Speed things up.• Pack in more and more content• Add more technology!!


INFO LIT!INFO LIT!

• If you teach information literacy skills, then everything else fits and balances.

•Our focus:

Information Literacy, the Information Literacy, the Big6 and the Web Big6 and the Web


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T-I-L-U-S-E


Information Information Literacy and The Literacy and The

Big6!Big6!

Information Literacy means Information Literacy means knowing how to access, use and knowing how to access, use and evaluate information.evaluate information.

Applying and using the Big6! Applying and using the Big6! improves the use of information. improves the use of information.

Information Literacy means Information Literacy means knowing how to access, use and knowing how to access, use and evaluate information.evaluate information.

Applying and using the Big6! Applying and using the Big6! improves the use of information. improves the use of information.


The Big6!The Big6!

How does it work?How does it work?How does it work?How does it work?


The Big6!The Big6!6 steps you use any time 6 steps you use any time

you need informationyou need informationFrom buying a car or From buying a car or

going to the moviesgoing to the movies to a book report or to a book report or school assignmentschool assignment

6 steps you use any time 6 steps you use any time you need informationyou need information

From buying a car or From buying a car or going to the moviesgoing to the movies to a book report or to a book report or school assignmentschool assignment


Task DefinitionTask Definition

To create a Big6 technology enhanced lesson


Information Information Seeking StrategiesSeeking Strategies

What sources can be used for creating technology enhanced lessons?


Location and AccessLocation and Access

What is the best source for finding ideas for technology enhanced lessons using the Big6?


Location and AccessLocation and AccessA web activity..A web activity..

Identify the topic/type of lesson you’d like to create – Big6 template

Search the Web WebQuestAn example of a “Location and

Access” activity.www.cusd.com/calonline/infolit


Use of InformationUse of Information

Read, hear, listen, watchGather information

Examples?


SynthesisSynthesis

An example…


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

Laugh Parade Laugh Parade Cartoon…Cartoon…


SynthesisSynthesis

Finished Products

Examples?Examples?

What are some online What are some online resources/strategies/tools?resources/strategies/tools?


Some online strategiesSome online strategies

• Hot List Topics

• Subject Sampler

• Treasure Hunt

• Scrapbooks

• WebQuests

• ThinkQuest (online competition for students)

• Quests (cost i.e. Classroom Connect Africa Quest)

See: www.kn.pacbell.com or www.classroom.net


Synthesis Synthesis Your assignment…Your assignment…

• Create a web/Internet enhanced Big6 lesson

• Use the Big6 Template – on your own or in pairs…

• Identify online resources/strategies/tools

• Identify which step of the Big6 they fit


EvaluationEvaluation

Judge the result (effectiveness)

Judge the process (efficiency)



Examples? Create evaluation

tool for your lesson



SharingWhat were the most

useful concepts you learned today?


Teach Info Lit SkillsTeach Info Lit Skills

• Use the Big6 – integrate with daily lessons

• Share it with colleagues• Teach students to be

information literate and to use the Big6

• Consult with your school library media teacher or technician


Information and the Information and the The Big6 – The Big6 – More InfoMore Info

• Library Media Teachers at your high schools or COE

• California School Library Association (www.schoolibrary.org)

• American Association of School Librarians (www.ala.org/aasl)

• Big6 website (www.big6.com) • Big6 associates – available for site

or district training


Final ThoughtsFinal Thoughts

"There are two fundamental equalizers in life:

the Internet and education."-John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, 1999



Contact Information:Contact Information:

Presenter InfoPresenter [email protected]@aol.com

Library Media Teacher on Library Media Teacher on Special Assignment, Special Assignment,

Online Learning SpecialistOnline Learning SpecialistClovis Unified School DistrictClovis Unified School District

www.cusd.com 559-327-9635559-327-9635

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Rob Darrow ([email protected]), CTAP TLA Region IV, Hayward, July 2002. On the Web with Information Literacy and the Big6™ Rob Darrow August, 2002