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Make informed decisions. Information literacy will help your children acquire relevant information and filter out biased or unreliable information

  Encourage, support, and guide your children in exploring their interests. Point them to various resources—such as printed materials, videos, and computers—that they can use to find out about the things that interest them and to communicate their ideas and feelings.

Use "The Big Six" to help your children with their homework. Help them (1) determine what is expected from their homework assignments, (2) identify the resources they will need to complete the tasks, (3) locate and access the needed resources, (4) read or use the available information, (5) apply the information to the tasks, and (6) evaluate the quality of their final product. In addition to helping your children master subject-area content, "The Big Six" helps them develop information problem-solving skills

A particular focus will be on training teachers to sensitize them to the importance of information and media literacy in the education process, enable them to integrate information and media literacy into their teaching and provide them with appropriate pedagogical methods and curricula.

Information literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information sources, as well as to become producers of information in their own right.

Information literate people are able to

make critical decisions

Information literacy is further described as "the basis for lifelong learning."

information literate student "reads the text and selects main idea."

while students are interested in using their phones for academic purposes, they still require guidance from educators to choose the most appropriate mobile resource and to evaluate mobile websites and mobile apps.

One of the primary benefits of using Google Forms is its ability to help instructors assess — in real time — how well students understand learning materials and to uncover student misconceptions, which helps instructors steer students to higher-level understanding.

increased interactivity between students and between the instructor and students.

downside of using Google Forms can be less time to cover course material because class time is used to respond to Google Forms questions and discuss students' answers.

The iPad is far superior to the workbooks- instant, self correcting, gives immediate feedback, kids progress at own levels and can be working at differentiated levels.

Other curriculum areas we use the iPad in are science (as a journal to record our observations) to check the weather, Social Studies- we tweet other kindergarten classrooms and find them on maps and the globe and learn about their lives; comparing similarities and discussing differences and even collaborating on play projects.

We set out to help teachers improve their classroom practice, through collaborating and sharing expertise with teachers around the world …

We wanted our students to have regular opportunities to share, learn and collaborate with children around the world, helping them to discover our common humanity …

We set out to create a community which fosters global dialogue and discussion between teachers and students …

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IFLA: The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as facilitators of learning – bookings now open February 23rd, 2012 by IL website administrator The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as facilitators of learning Dates: 8-10 August 2012 Location: Tampere, Finland IFLA-satellite registration is now open: http://iflasatellitetampere2012.wordpress.com/ Sponsor: IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and IFLA Information Literacy Section Contacts: Susan Schnuer, schnuer@illinois.edu ; Leena Toivonen, leena.t.toivonen@uta.fi Filed under: Conferences | Comment (0) Article tags: IFLA