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Lisa Keeler

A+ Research & Writing - 2 views

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  • Lisa Keeler on 03 Feb 12
     
    Love this site as an excellent guide for my students in writing research papers. Provides excellent and reliable sites for research, and confirms good research habits. Helps reduce the fear of research paper writing!
Tania Hinojosa

Information Literacy - 0 views

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Information literacy

shared by Tania Hinojosa on 25 Feb 12 - Cached
  • In today’s technology-rich environment, physical access to information has never been easier. Intellectual access however, can be denied to the student who does not possess the cognitive strategies for selecting, retrieving, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, creating, and communicating.
  • The accepted definition of literacy has evolved from being able to read and write to the expanded and more elaborate ability to address the practices and outcomes of education in the Information Age. Literacy is referred to in different terms: math literacy, reading literacy, media literacy, print literacy, visual literacy, cultural literacy, computer literacy. Each literacy prescribes a particular process by which that content area can be more easily negotiated. But there is one -- Information Literacy -- under which all the other literacies reside because it is a tool of empowerment. Students who possess information literacy have a heightened capacity for doing meaningful, relevant work. "Regardless of where information literacy skills are employed, they are applicable in any school, play, or work situation."
  • From linear to hypermedia learning - Students move back and forth between information sources in an interactive and non-sequential way. From direct instruction
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  • to construction and discovery - Instead of absorbing knowledge as it’s delivered by a teacher, the student constructs new knowledge. He learns by doing.
  • From teacher-centered to learner-centered. - Focus is on the learner, not the delivery-person. Instead of transmitting information, the teacher now creates and structures what happens in the classroom.
  • From absorbing pre-selected facts to discovering relevant information - This demands higher-order thinking skills such as analysis and synthesis. From school-based to life-based learning - A learner’s knowledge base is constantly revised through life experiences, and schools can prepare students for this eventuality. From uniform instruction to customized learning - Students find personal paths to learning. From learning as torture to learning as fun - The student is motivated to learn, and feels more responsible for his progress. From teacher as transmitter to teacher as facilitator.
  • When technology is responsibly and effectively used in the classroom, students learn faster and in more depth.
  • Kate Spilseth on 25 Feb 12
     
    Learning how to use the information we find and how to apply this to education.
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