Getting There

Even though it was 16 degrees outside, participants were hot with effective and innovative ideas for integrating the Big6 and higher level thinking skills into their Idaho science standards. Groups of librarian and science teachers from around the state participated in a 2.5 day seminar: Critical Learning Skills in the 21st Century:Collaborating for Student Success [...]

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Attending a seminar in Second Life is in itself an engaging experience. But, what made it really memorable was Mike Eisenberg–a visionary, a radical, and someone, who after fourteen years, still makes me think. Of our three main responsibilities: information literacy, information management, and reading advocacy, we should be concentrating our efforts on articulating, implementing, [...]

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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 [...]

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A professor at out large university requested some information from me over the holidays. My quick replies are here:
1. How receptive is your school to the way you approach technology and learning?
It has been slow to catch on. Many faculty are reluctant to move into a true technology environment (meaning that they are using the [...]

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For a preconference workshop I presented in Iowa, I created a wiki that helps students (and teachers/librarians) identify tools that can help in the various steps of the information search process, no matter which process model the student is using. It only contains a fraction of the available tools, as I didn’t even include software [...]

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Can the Big6 still help your students keep up with their information needs in a 2.0 digital world? In the world of Web and libraries 2.0, is the Big6 still viable? How have you integrated Web 2.0 tools into the Big6? Are you using blogs and wikis as part of the search process leading up [...]

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