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Karen LaBonte

21st Century Information Fluency - 7 views

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    Digital Investigator Training Digital DIF Investigator Applying the Digital Information Fluency (DIF) Process Digital Investigator Training is a way for middle and high school students to learn valuable digital information Fluency skills. Educators interested in the teacher's guides should contact us at: 21cif@imsa.edu Start Here (materials open in a new window.) In this training course you will learn to: Power Search for Digital Resources Evaluate Digital Materials Use Digital Materials in an Ethical Manner
Dennis OConnor

Information Fluency Common Core Alignment - 9 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?  
Dennis OConnor

21st Century Literacy - 12 views

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    Teaching digital literacy, information literacy, citizenship literacy via journalism lessons and resources for 7-12 grade students. I like the combination of writing journalism with the deep thinking skills needed for information fluency.
Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi - 14 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. 
Leslie Healey

The false connotations inside "digital natives". » Alan Lawrence Sitomer - 12 views

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    my students arrive in my class as juniors with only spotty digital fluency. I have a rep for being "hard" because we try new things...is this what I can expect from "digital natives" ????
Dennis OConnor

Web 2.0 Evaluation Kit - 6 views

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    Resource kit with materials about evaluation of web 2.0 content. A building block for information fluency: knowing how to evaluate digital resources.
Meredith Stewart

Cueprompter - 6 views

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    Could be interesting way to work on reading fluency
Adam Babcock

Education Week's Digital Directions: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 10 views

  • English-language learners
  • audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs
  • 2nd through 4th graders over 16 weeks as they used webcams to see themselves reading and then he identified their mistakes.
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  • at least two fewer mistakes per minute.
  • podcasting to help her students practice fluency.
  • Then they can literally see the pauses or mistakes they made in the editing program and correct them.
  • Using VoiceThread, for instance—which allows users to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows with images, documents, and videos
  • Storybird, allows students to tap into a library of illustrations to create digital books, says Lovely.
Dennis OConnor

Jeff Clark - Portfolio Illustrating Patterns in Data - 14 views

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    This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find! 
Karen LaBonte

Full Circle Resource Kit Directory - 7 views

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    Free resources for teaching and learning critical 21st century skills.
Karen LaBonte

Dillon School District Info Literacy Resources for Teachers - 12 views

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    Search tools, hoax web sites, search engines, etc. EXCELLENT
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