The Big6:The Big6:Information & Information &

Technology Skills Technology Skills

Rob DarrowBig6 Trainer

Robdarrow@cusd.com

for Student for Student SuccessSuccess

A Little About MeA Little About Me

Educator, 22 years – grades K-8 Clovis, CA – Central California LMT - over 700 student owned laptop

computers at school Big6 user and trainer for the past 8 years Currently coordinate an online high

school program – Colorado has one of the best online school

cooperatives in the nation

A Little About YouA Little About You

Big6 CardsName, job,

school, years in education

Read the cardWhich Big6

step is the card?

1. Task Definition1. Task Definition

2. Info Seeking Strategies2. Info Seeking Strategies

3. Location & Access3. Location & Access

4. Use of Information4. Use of Information

5. Synthesis5. Synthesis

6. Evaluation6. Evaluation

My BeliefsMy Beliefs

In an information rich society, you need more trained professionals

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

Teachers NEED to know how to guide students in the use of information

Goals for TodayGoals for Today

To understand the Big6 as it applies to information literacy.

To identify ways that you can incorporate the Big6 on Monday and throughout the semester.

To challenge you to think about the Big6 and technology integration.

Outline of the WorkshopOutline of the Workshop

Part I: The information age: implications for learning, teaching and technology

Part II: Information literacy: the Big6 Skills process & approach

Part III: The Big6 and technologyPart IV: Big6 Implementation and

Integration

Info Lit Self AssessmentInfo Lit Self Assessment

From Information Power– American Association of School

Librarians. 1998.

Your Lesson in Big6?Your Lesson in Big6?

Be thinking of a lesson or unit you teach during the second semester…

Why?Why?

OpportunityOpportunity

Calvin and HobbesB.C. Cartoon

Our mission as educators…Our mission as educators…

To motivate student learning

To define “learn”

Why is this a challenge?Why is this a challenge?

The definition of “learn” changes

The needs of the learners change

Consider these statistics…

Facts about Information...Facts about Information...

Today, the amount of information in the world doubles every two years.

In the year 2010, it is predicted that the amount of information will double every 72 hours.

Background StatisticsBackground StatisticsInternetInternet

The Internet had more users in its first five years than the telephone did in its first thirty

E-mail outnumbers regular mail by nearly ten to one

The web is still doubling in size…every 40-50 days (USA Today, 1996)

A new web page appears every 4 minutes

More Background StatisticsMore Background StatisticsInternetInternet

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 day2,289 new users each hour, or 38 new users each minute.

– http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

More Background StatisticsMore Background StatisticsInternetInternet

According to UCLA study (2001):– 72% of Americans go online each week

for an average of 9 hours per week– The top reason Internet users go online:

to obtain information quickly.– A new gap in patterns of Internet use is

emerging: experienced vs. non-experienced users

–http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

Background StatisticsBackground StatisticsChildrenChildren

More than 17 million teens, or three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17, go online each month. Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001, www.pewinternet.org

Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S. Tapscott, Growing Up Digital (1998)

More school-age children in the nation use computers at school than at home (Newburger 2001).

– Newburger, E. (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.

Background StatisticsBackground StatisticsChildrenChildren

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

Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it

It is a world of analog adults and digital kids

Internet Internet ConnectivityConnectivity

In fall 2001, 99 percent of public schools in the United States had access to the Internet.– (NCES, 2002)

Computers today are one million times more powerful than 20 years ago.

Computing PowerComputing Power

In 20 years computers will be

one million times more powerful than today!

Computing PowerComputing Power

Information OverloadInformation QualityEverywhere!

– work– school– play

Challenges of the Information AgeChallenges of the Information Age

Information Issue #1: Information Issue #1: OverloadOverload

“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)

Information OverloadInformation Overload

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 OverloadInformation Overload

An example…

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

Information OverloadInformation Overload

Alta Vista: 454,150 hits5 minutes on each = 37,000 hours Narrow to 100-200 that appear to be right = 50 - 100 hours.

Total Potential time to spend: 635 days or almost 2 years!!!

“Should children be immunized? Are immunizations safe?”

Another…Another…Information Overload ExampleInformation Overload Example

Causing OverloadCausing Overload

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

In 18 months you get twice as much power and capacity for the same $$

The Solution to Coping With The Solution to Coping With Overload?Overload?

to speed things up? to pack in more and more

content? to add more technology?

Information Problem #2: Information Problem #2: QualityQuality

Researchers (Rand) checked out 6 health Web sites and 12 sites dedicated to specific diseases.

How frequently Web sites are complete and accurate:

Breast cancer 63%Depression 44%Obesity 37%Childhood asthma 33%

U.S. News & World Report, June 4, 2001 v130 i22 p10

QualityQuality

“More than 2/3 of teens said within the last year that they

use the Internet as their major resource when doing a big

project for school..." Lester, Will "High School Students Love Net for Research." Syracuse Post Standard, 8/21/01 (from AP )

QualityQuality

In a study of 500 sites used by Colorado high school students to

do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable

for academic research!

Colhoun, Alexander. "But - - I Found It on the Internet!" Christian Science Monitor. 25 April 2000: 16.

Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html

QualityQuality

QualityQuality

The top legal advice person on Askme.com turned out to be a 14 year old whose only legal training was from Court TV and cop shows.

But – just as interesting, when he was finally “uncovered,”

Advice on the Net:

Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, July 2001; also Next (Norton, 2001)

the demand for his advice still continued!

Quality: Searching the WebQuality: Searching the Web

Search mechanisms find less than 20% of everything that is on the web

It is estimated that the “dark or invisible web” is 400-500 times larger than the indexed commercial web.

The Solution?The Solution?

Video: Information LiteracyVideo: Information Literacy

“e-literate”Pacific Bell/UCLA

Key Players to Meet the Need:Key Players to Meet the Need:Library Media SpecialistsLibrary Media Specialists

“The mission of the library media program is to ensure that

students and staff…are effective users of ideas and information.

– Information Power, 1988

“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

Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

“Information literacy, the ability to locate, process and use

information effectively, equips individuals to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the

global information society.”

Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Dev, 1991

Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

The Solution The Solution

Information Literacy!– Helping students to be

discriminating users of information.– Helping students learn essential

information & technology skills!Use the Big6!

Key to Information Literacy: Key to Information Literacy: CONTEXT!!CONTEXT!!

WARNING! WARNING! Teaching information & Teaching information &

technology skills out technology skills out of context of context isis

hazardous to your hazardous to your students’ health.students’ health.

A Question for you…A Question for you…

Tampa Bay Buccaneers?Oakland Raiders?

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