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Internet and
The Research Process
Carolyn Foote
04/11/23
Information Literacy
“All which the school can or need do for pupils, so far as their minds are concerned, is to develop the ability to think.”
John Dewey as quoted in Mancall, et al.
“Educating Students to Think”
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Information Literacy
Focus has been on “technological literacy” not on information literacy
the “physical” internet vs. “intellectual” internet
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The Process Carol Kuhlthau’s Information Search
Process as a model
Carol Kuhlthau“Information Search Process”
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The Process
“’Being there involves seeing the research through, from beginning to end…. They also need guidance in learning useful strategies to apply at various stages in the process.”
Carol Kuhlthau
“A Process Approach to Library Skills Instruction”
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The Processassumptions
students have the skills and vocabulary in a particular content area to do a search
students are able to determine what they need to know and choose relevant information
students readily transfer skills reporting = researching and
information = knowledge students know everything about the internet and
know how and where to search
Ross Todd
“Research Column 3, 1997”
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Formulating
the question
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The question
Formulating the question/topic Carol Kuhlthau--mood Studies
Students don’t know how to form questions
Study showing that students have trouble figuring out what they know and using it
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The question Strategies
Teacher and Librarian as coach Brainstorming--techniques /tools Browsing Essential questions (Ted Sizer)
How are things, events, or people connected to each other? How do they fit together?
So what? Why does this matter? What’s new and what’s old? Have we run across this
idea before? What’s different?“Asking the Essential Questions”
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The
search
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The Search
Student factors “Students ability to complete or even begin a
successful search is closely linked to their ability to design search paths.”
Knowledge
novice vs. expert
content vs. strategies
Celeste McNicholas and Ross J. Todd
New kids on the box: is it worth the effort and investment?
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The Search
“Thinking is not demonstrated by how many answers students know; rather, it is demonstrated by how they behave when they don’t know.”
Arthur L. Costa
Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching thinking
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The Search
Strategies Survey students--verbalize
How do they begin when they don’t know? What sites do they use? Why? What do they
do when they hit roadblocks? How do they regroup? When do they seek help? The role of serendipity?
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Sorting and
Selecting
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Sorting and Selecting
“I just pick the first good site I come to if it has the information I’m looking for.”
7th grader
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Sorting and Selecting
“How do we develop in students this important skill of discrimination, evaluation, and selection so that they can manage the vast, ambiguous Internet?”
Celeste McNicholas and Ross J. Todd“New kids on the box: is it worth the effort and investment?”
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Sorting and Selecting
“If ever there was a need for coaching students to use their minds well, it’s now….It’s naïve to think that even with technology kids are going to be able to make meaning of this incredible glut of information without learning to make connections between things, ask the right questions, make logical selections.”
Kathy Juarez in
“Technology in the Essential School”
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Sorting and Selecting
Strategies Coaching Selecting--Print only one article Selecting--Harvest, and then rank articles Using bookmarking Modeling--How to select sites Website evaluation activities Progress checksheet--What source did you pick
today and why?
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Using
Information
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Using Information
The problem--The buffet--Jamie McKenzie “We see students..downloading and saving files in
a great rush of data gorging which rarely includes reading. Hundreds of files and pages accumulate without sorting, sifting or discrimination. They search the web, find twenty thousand hits and light up with joy. Confusing quantity and sheer volume of information with success, they greedily scoop up everything within their reach….”
Jamie McKenzie
“Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer”
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Using Information
“We must not let information displace wisdom….If you approach information without good habits of mind you only become its victim.”
Mark Gordon
“Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development”
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Using Information
Time Studies show that “rarely is there enough
time for students to work through the process under the guidance of librarians and teachers.”
Carol Kuhlthau
“Information Search Process”
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Using Information
Strategies ***Time*** Conferencing
Progress journals/blogs What did you find out today? What else
do you need to know?
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Synthesis
Incubation time
“We must step out of the activities long enough to consider the meaning of what we are finding.”
Jamie McKenzie
“Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer”
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Synthesis Strategies
Build in time “Making our way toward inspiration and
illumination-the “Aha!” phenomenon - usually requires much time and a supportive environment, an incubation period during which the elements of the new idea dance and spin around each other….this musing cannot be forced or rushed.”
Jamie McKenzie
“Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer”
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Synthesizing
Progress check- Blogging as journal Coveritlive or Chatzy discussions
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Evaluation
“What has frequently been diagnosed as a writing problem in student research papers is actually a thinking problem.Students have not sufficiently thought through their topics to write an intelligent research paper. The thoughts need to be developed during the library research process.”
Carol Kuhlthau“Information Search Process”
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Evaluation
Evaluate the process survey students progress journals class discussions
Evaluate the assignment informal teacher questionnaire evaluation as a learning tool
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Next Steps
“We must take our schools and students way past Information to understanding, wisdom and insight.”
Jamie McKenzie
“Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage Info-Glitz and Info-
Glimmer”
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On the web
Westlake High School Librarythewhslibrary.edublogs.org
Revision of presentation for Internet Librarian West Conference.
Carolyn Foote
