Transcript Big 6 - HPCCSS

The Big6:
Information &
Technology Skills
for Student
Success
(Day 2)
Rob Darrow
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A Little About Me
Educator, 26 years (Grades K-8)
 LMT at intermediate school (7-8)
that now has over 700 students
carrying laptop computers to school
 Big6 user and trainer - 11 years
 Coordinator, Online high school and
Teaching American History
 History Day coach
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A Little About You
Librarians (+20, 15-20, 10-15, less 5)
 What did you used to teach?
 Subjects (history, English, science,
math, special ed, admin/resource
teachers, library, other?)
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My Thoughts
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
 More critical to have trained teachers
guiding students in the use of
information than ever before
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The Big 6 - It’s all about…
The use of information
 Organizing information
 Sifting information
 Producing quality information
 Teaching kids how to do this so they
achieve!
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Big6 Quiz
Your results
 Why the Big6?
 How would you explain the Big6?
 Application in variety of areas
 What did you learn from Bob?
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Others Thoughts from Others
About Information…
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Thomas Jefferson
Information is the
currency of
democracy.
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Ronald Reagan
Information is the oxygen
of the modern age.
It seeps through the walls
topped by barbed wire,
it wafts across the
electrified borders.
– June 14, 1989
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Timothy Leary
In the information age, you
don’t teach philosophy as
they did after feudalism.
You perform it.
If Aristotle were alive
today he’d have
a talk show.
- Feb 1989
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Pauline Kael
Art Critic
Newsweek/The New Yorker
In the arts, the critic is the only
independent source of
information.
The rest is advertising.
- 1973
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Why?
Some other
opinions
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Opportunity
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Calvin and Hobbes cartoon
– “Then forget it!”
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BC cartoon: “Define Learn”
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Why do this?
 To
meet the needs of the
teachers and students in our
schools … and guide them in
acquiring the information
literacy skills they need…at any
time, from any where.
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Goals for Today
Review the Big6.
 Focus on the “Micro” (Bob did the
Macro)
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– Lesson Planning.
– How does it look in every day use?
Write Big6 lessons that fit your
subject.
 Integrate the Big6 with the web
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Big6 Plan of Action /
Implementation Handout
Identify what you already do
 Identify what you would like to
do
 Possible collaborators (name the
teachers)
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Information & Technology
Literacy
™
The Big6 Skills
1. Task Definition
2. Info Seeking Strategies
3. Location & Access
4. Use of Information
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation
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Information Literacy
“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)
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Information Literacy and the Big6…
A little history
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1436 - Printing Press
 1776 – Declaration of Independence
 1803 - 1806 – Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark;
 1860-1864 – Civil War
 1917 – World War I
 1941 – World War II
 1972 – First personal computer
 1974 – The term “information literacy” first used
 1980 – Internet
 1987 – Big6 Framework Published
 1992 – World Wide Web
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Big6 Translates Information
Literacy Skills
into Systematic Stages
“Simple yet complex.”
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Handbook
p. 33
Info
Lit
The Big6 Skills
The Super 3
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Skills
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Big6 Practice – Big6 Handbook
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Pages: 42-45
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The Big6 Card Activity
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Acronym:
TILUSE
Definition
 Information Seeking
Strategies
 Location and Access
 Use of Information
 Synthesis
 Evaluation
 Task
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BREAK
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Group Big6 Lesson
 Discuss
the Big6 homework
you completed for Bob
– How did it work?
– How would you compare the
same lesson without using the
Big6?
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Group Big6 Lesson
 Note:
A Big6 lesson usually
focuses on one stage of the
Big6
– E.g. Science research project
 Develop
a Big6 Lesson
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Instructional Design and Planning
Micro and Macro
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Read Around p. 71 - 72
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Implementation Strategies
• Context: the process
 information problem solving - the Big6
• Context: technology in context
 technology within the process
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Context: curriculum
 real needs in real situations
 assignments: papers, reports, projects
 skills x unit matrix
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Big 6 –Going to the movies
An implementation strategy…
visiting classrooms – use Big6 Bookmark
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Micro Planning - Guidelines
View your existing units and lessons
in relation to the Big6.
 Explain assignments in a Big6
perspective.
 Focus on different Big6 stages with
different lessons.
 Examples?
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“Big Juicies”
p. 106
Important units in the curriculum:
 have a longer duration
 reach many students
 involve a report, project, or product
 use multiple resources
 involve a range of teaching methods
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Macro Planning – p. 151-163
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Schoolwide – librarian’s job
In groups:
– what are the “big juicies” in your
school?
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On your own –
(implementation ideas)
– Think about your school
– Jot down 5 “big juicies” for fall and
spring – any subject/any teacher
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Standardized Testing in Georgia?
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Grade levels? Subjects?
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Standardized Testing
How does information literacy and
the Big6 fit into testing?
 Handbook p. 136-137 – homework
organizer
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Technology
Okay,
but what about
technology?
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Cartoon
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“Our teacher is getting
smarter…yesterday she gave us
homework we couldn’t even find
on the Internet.”
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Background Statistics
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.
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Background Statistics
Internet
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According to a recent UCLA study
(2003):
– Internet use at every age continues to
increase – and in some age ranges, access
approaches 100 percent.
– http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-
report.asp
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Ages 12-18
UCLA Internet Report. http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp
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Internet Users By States
Oct
2003
October 2003
September 2001
Sept
2001
Over 70%
60% to 70%
50% to 60%
Under 50%
Over 70%
60% to 70%
50% to 60%
Less than 50%
(1)
(23)
(22)
(4)
(6)
(25)
(18)
(1)
•A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age.
•U.S. Department of Commerce. September 2004.
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Background Statistics
Children and Internet
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Three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17
go online several times each week (17
million).
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Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001, www.pewinternet.org
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Tapscott (1998). Growing Up Digital .
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Newburger (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States:
August 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.
Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in
U.S.
More school-age children in the nation use
computers at school than at home.
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National Ed Tech Plan 2004
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Internet Use is growing the fastest
among children, ages 2-5.
(2002 UCLA Internet Report)
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1999 NCES Report:
– 72 percent of all first graders used a
home computer on a weekly basis during
the summer
– 97 percent of kindergarteners had
access to a computer at school or home
– www.nationaledtechplan.org
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National Ed Tech Plan 2004
Teens spend more time online
using the Internet than
watching television.
 94 percent of online teens use
the Internet for school-related
research.
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Challenge: Quality
In a study of 500 Web sites used
by Colorado high school students to
do research, only 27% of the sites
were judged to be reliable for
academic research!
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
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Internet “Blogs”
The number of “web logs” or blogs is
doubling in size every 6 months.
 Now, more than 7.8 million blogs.
 Check out MySpace.com or
Xanga.com for teen blogs.
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MySpace gets twice the number of daily
hits than Google
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The world we live in…
Digital kids and Analog Adults
Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
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Children and Internet:
The Facts
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High school students today:
first generation to grow up on the
Internet
Students internalize technology
use, while adults have to adopt it
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An example…
Bedtime Story Cartoon on computer
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The Solution?
Don’t use technology
or the Internet?
 Discourage Web Use?
 Filtering?
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Alternative Solutions
 To
focus on process as well as
content
– Information Literacy!
– Discriminating users of information.
– Learn essential information &
technology skills!
– The Big6!
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Implementation: CONTEXT!!
WARNING!
Teaching information &
technology skills out of
context is hazardous to
your students’ health.
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Technology – Out of Context (p. 57)
• Word processing • Electronic spreadsheets
• E-Mail
• Spell/grammar check
• Web browsing
• Hyperstudio
• Web page design
• Upload/download
• Instant Messaging
• Web searching
• Statistical analysis presentation
• Online•catalogs
Multimedia production (PowerPoint)
• Database management systems
• Video production
• Inspiration • Chat
• Group discussion
• CAD/CAM
• Electronic indexes
• Graphics • Use of operating systems
• Copy/paste
• Telnet • Brainstorming software
• ftp
•• Algorithms
PDAs
• HTML
• Programming
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Better, But Still Out of Context
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E-Mail
Word processing
Group discussion
Online catalogs
Electronic indexes
Web browsing
Web searching
Electronic spreadsheets
Upload/download
HTML
Spell/grammar check
Brainstorming software
PDAs
Video production
Algorithms
Instant Messaging
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Multimedia production
(PowerPoint,
Hyperstudio)
ftp
Chat
Graphics
Database management
Inspiration
Use of operating
systems
Web page design
Copy/paste
Statistical analysis
presentation
CAD/CAM
Telnet
Programming
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Technology in Context! (p. 62)
TASK DEFINITION
e-mail, online discussions (listservs, newsgroups), chat,
video conferencing, desktop conferencing, groupware,
brainstorming software, Inspiration, instant messaging
INFO SEEKING
STRATEGIES
online catalogs, info retrieval, electronic resources (CDROMs nets), WWW/net resources, Q&A services
(AskERIC), online discussion groups (listservs)
LOCATION & ACCESS
online catalogs, electronic indexes, WWW browsers,
search engines (Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, WebCrawler),
AskERIC,, telnet, ftp, e-mail
USE OF
INFORMATION
upload/download, word processing, copy-paste, Inspiration,
outliners, spreadsheets, databases (for analysis of data),
statistical packages
SYNTHESIS
word processing, dtp, graphics, spreadsheets, data base
systems, Inspiration, hypermedia, presentation software,
down/up load, ftp, e-journals, listservs, newsgroups, Web
page authoring (HTML)
EVALUATION
spell/grammar checkers, e-mail, online discussions
(listservs, newsgroups), chat, desktop conferencing,
groupware
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Technology & Education
Information technology
fundamentally affects every
aspect of education—
because learning & teaching
are fundamentally
information-based.
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Practice: Technology
in a Big6 Context – p. 58
Baseline technology:
•
colored pencils
Related Big6:
• synthesis
Related electronic technologies:
• paint, draw, graphics, video and
photo-editing
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Practice: Technology
in a Big6 Context
Baseline technology:
• highlighting
Related Big6:
• use of information
Related electronic technologies:
• copy/paste, download,
file transfer; highlight
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Exercise: Technology
in a Big6 Context
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Baseline technology:
– magazines and books
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Related Big6:
– information seeking
strategies,
– use of information
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Related electronic technologies:
– full-text electronic resources,
CD-ROMs, WWW sites, databases
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Exercise: Technology
in a Big6 Context
Baseline technology:
– pen and paper
Related Big6:
– synthesis
– use of information
Related electronic technologies:
– word processing, desktop
publishing, multimedia, presentation
software, web page authoring
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Exercise: Technology
in a Big6 Context
Baseline technology:
– face-to-face meeting
Related Big6:
– TILUSE
Related electronic technologies:
– e-mail, listservs , video
conferencing, discussion
boards, chat
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The Bottom Line
Use of the Big6
Effective users of information
(information literacy)
Better jobs
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Before Lunch Thought
"There are two fundamental
equalizers in life:
the Internet and education."
-John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, 1999
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LUNCH
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Georgia Learning Connection
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/homepg.ht
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 Is it used?
 Consider it from the information
literacy or Big6 perspective
 Build “Big6” lesson plans for all
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Schoolwide Implementation
“Implementation Ideas”
 What needs to happen?
 How do you want to do this?
 Where does it fit?
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Summary
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Information-rich and complex world.
Information & technology literacy –
essential skills for the information age.
The Big6 – powerful approach to
information literacy – can implement
immediately.
Technology – gains meaning if learned and
used in a Big6 context.
Fully integrates with the classroom:
1+1=1.
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Big6 Turbo Tools
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TurboTools guides students-from start to finish--through
the Big6 process to create
projects and complete
assignments of all types,
including research papers and
book reports.
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Big6 Web Work
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Information Seeking Activity
– Search the Web Webquest
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Explore the Big6 Website
– Big6 Treasure Hunt
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Identify Big6 Correlated Web sites you
can use
– Location and Access
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Share with Group
– Synthesis
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Big6 Workshop Evaluation
 Evaluation
Time
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Implementation: CONTEXT!!
WARNING!
Teaching information &
technology skills out of
context is hazardous to
your students’ health.
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Call to Action
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www.big6.com
Rob Darrow
Big6 Trainer
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www.big6.com
All Big6 resources available from:
Linworth 800-786-5017
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