Getting There

Why wouldn’t a technology teacher, classroom teacher, and library media specialist use an information search process (e.g. the Big6) to teach content and meaningfully integrate ICT skills into the curriculum? It makes good sense for the educators and students. Using the steps of the process to plan the lesson/unit and delineating the roles all collaborators will assume (who teaches what and when). Students get a transferable process they can take from class to class and grade to grade. They learn a common vocabulary and can be creative and intellectual within the process. Skills within each step can get increasingly sophisticated as students progress in grade and cognitive development. Many educational standards/objectives are covered within the timeframe of an instructional unit. Students practice those skills in a meaningful context. It just makes good sense.