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The Big6: Information & Technology Skills. for Student Success. Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer [email protected]. A 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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Big6:The Big6:Information & Information &
Technology Skills Technology Skills
Rob DarrowBig6 Trainer
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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