how is creative or critical thought defined and taught? And by what assessment can we measure it, if at all?
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Introduction - 3 views
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Simply put participatory librarianship recasts library and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created through conversation. Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore libraries are in the conversation business. Participatory librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation. Be it in practice, policies, programs and/or tools, participatory librarians seek to enrich, capture, store and disseminate the conversations of their communities. Explore the information below, and throughout this site to learn more.
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The starter kit is a resource to move participatory librarianship from concept to reality. How does a focus on knowledge creation over artifacts look in practice? How can librarians be prepared for a world of participation? The answers to these questions and more come more from experimentation than theory. The Starter Kit is the ever increasing forum to detail, document, and solicit real steps in implementing participatory librarianship.
Smashwords - School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - A book by ... - 10 views
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School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come
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A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors.
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free e-book
Information Investigator 3.1 - 5 views
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What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher? I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills. What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3 hour time commitment?
Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class. Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes.
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What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher? I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills. What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3 hour time commitment? Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class. Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes.
Teach Your Kids the Secrets of Smart Web Searching - 4 views
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Advice & Answers
Help Your Child Search the Web Like a Pro
“Let’s google dinosaurs.” Sound familiar? Searching the Web is so commonplace that even young children know what it means to “google.” But when your children really need to do research for a report – or dive deeper into a subject they’re interested in – it helps to know some strategies for improving their results.
Effective online searching can make a huge difference in the quality and relevance of the content your children find on the Internet. But it takes a bit of know-how to improve the chances of getting back the information they’re looking for. You can help your child search smarter – and waste less time – by explaining how to search like a pro.
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From Common Sense Media: Safe Searching for your kids.
Big6 Resources - 2 views
Information Fluency Common Core Alignment - 5 views
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One school districts work aligning information fluency with the new Common Core Learning Standards. Lots of work done here. Are you facing a similar project?
TwHistory - 2 views
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Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."
12 Ways To Be More Search Savvy | MindShift - 6 views
Yet another study shows that "digital natives" suck at searching | Lisa Gold: Research ... - 5 views
Study Vibe - Making referencing real - 4 views
Taming Information Chaos | - 3 views
Education Week Teacher: High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom - 2 views
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How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?
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get creative with lesson structure
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Take advantage of any time that your students have access to a computer lab with multiple computers.
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Might help create a blended classroom, even when you have to share the blender. Common sense advise for the real world of underequipped classrooms and stretched thin teachers.
Is Google really filtering my news? - Librarian of Fortune - 0 views
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He leads off the book with a discussion of the effect of Google’s “personalization” feature on the ranking of search results. This feature uses 54 signals (what browser version you’re using, your prior searches, geographic location, and so on) to customize search results for each user.
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“increasingly biased to share our own views. More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”
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Bottom line: Holy moley, Google does filter the news. You really need to go beyond the first few search results if you want to get a relatively well-rounded view of the news.
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Common Core - Debating "21st Century Skills" - 4 views
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Common Core has been critical of the idea that our children’s education should be organized around a set of so-called “21st century skills” instead of core academic subjects such as history, science, and the arts.
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As a promoter of information fluency, I'd argue that it is a 21st century foundation skill for all core academic subjects.
To be information fluent means a student can independently research and evaluate digital information relevant to any topic, the common core academic subjects, as well as media studies and consumer issues.
There's no disconnect! What do you think?
Information Fluency Newsletter - 2 views
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The most recent issue of the 21cif Information Fluency newsletter.
Feel free to join! Low volume news letter dedicated to searching, evaluating and ethical use of digital information.
Includes an invitation for free access to our new 3 hour self paced training course and online assessment: Information Fluency Investigator 3.1.
Starting Your Search - 3 views
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Putting the research process to work
Don’t know where to begin? This unit will help kickstart your research with a ten-step strategy that works for just about any discipline.
In the first part of this unit you’ll find instructions on a ten step research method. On the last pages of the unit, you’ll see the strategy put to work in 3 examples.
