You can do BIG things with Big6 Skills! Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Some call it information literacy, information communication, or ICT skills, or a process, but we call it the Big6.
IASL policy statement on school libraries. Includes statements on: functions, materials, facilities, personnel, lifelong education, skills, literacy development, government and public support.
Jenny Luca is Director of ICT and eLearning at Toorak College in Mt.Eliza. Her blog aims to share what she discovers about the potential of Web 2.0 application in educational settings.
Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. This site informs on the pedagogy and practices to enable visible thinking in students.
Report of the School libraries 21C online discussion, commissioned by School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit, Curriculum K-12 Directorate, NSW Department of Education and Training.
n 2004, the US publishing house Scholastic published the research foundation paper School libraries work! (Scholastic Library Publishing, 2004). This document presented position statements from a variety of organisations from around the world and findings of empirical studies conducted in the past decade of research which has focused on the impact of school libraries and teacher librarians on learning outcomes. The 3rd edition of this document was published in 2008.
In March 2003, the Australian School Library Association commissioned the Australian Council for Education Research to conduct a review of the research literature on school libraries and student achievement. Commonly known as the Lonsdale Report (2003), it identifies the need for research that links school libraries to student achievement in Australia.