The Big6TM Information Process Model

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The Big6TMInformation Process Model

• PowerPoint created by Kathy Berg
• Adapted with permission by
• Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz
• http//www.big6.com/ (Big6 Homepage)

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Age of Information Overload

• " Tomorrow's illiterate will not be
• the man who can't read he will
• be the man who has not learned
• how to learn."       
• - Herbert Gerjuoy
• Management Guru

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Information Overload, cont.

• More Than 1 Billion Web Sites
• - NEC Research, 2003
• Search for civil war?
• http//www.google.com/

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civil war 8,010,000 web sites
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Information Literacy
What are the skills and attitudes necessary to
become effective, life-long users of ideas and
information?
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Information Process Model
1. Task Definition 2. Information Seeking
Strategies 3. Location and Access 4. Use of
Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation
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1. Task Definition

• Define the Information Problem
• What is the problem to be solved?
• Identify Information Needed
• What do I need to find out?

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2. Information Seeking Strategies

• Determine all Possible Sources
• What are all possible sources?
• Select the Best Sources
• Which sources will be most useful?

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3. Location and Access

• Locate Sources
• How do I locate sources that I need?
• Find Information within Sources
• Which search strategies would work best?

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4. Use of Information

• Engage Information
• How do I selectively read, hear, and view
  information?
• Extract Relevant Information
• Which information should I use?

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5. Synthesis

• Organize Information
• How do I organize/synthesize information from
  multiple sources?
• Present Information
• How do I present or share information
  effectively?

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6. Evaluation

• Judge the Product/Result (Effectiveness)
• Did I learn the content?
• What could I have done to make this
  product/result more effective?

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6. Evaluation, cont.

• Judge the Process (Efficiency)
• What did I learn about my strengths/weaknesses
  regarding each Big6 Skill?
• What could I have done differently to save time
  and energy?

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Where to Begin?

• Use the Big6 Terminology
• Talk Students through the Information Process
• Ask Key Questions
• Focus Attention on Specific Big6 Actions to
  Accomplish.
• Use Self-Assessments and Alternative Assessments

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Where to Begin? cont.

• Utilize Big6 Resources
• Your Friendly Library Media Staff!
• Big6 Note Cards and Posters
• Books
• The new improved Big6 workshop handbook
• Teaching information and technology skills The
  Big6 in secondary schools
• Big6 Web Sites (District Library Media Homepage)

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Why the Big6?

• Most executives have become
• computer literate, but many
• are not information literate.
• - Peter Drucker, Princeton Professor

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Why the Big6? cont.
The Big6 approach can be used whenever students
are faced with an information problem or with
making a decision that is based on
information. - Eisenberg and Berkowitz
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Online Resources

• Big6 (Homepage) (BPS District Library Homepage)
• http//www.big6.com/
• Big6 Assignment Organizers
• http//www.standrews.austin.tx.us/library/Assignme
  nt20organizer.htm
• http//www.standrews.austin.tx.us/library/Research
  PaperOrganizer.htm
• Big6 Bibliography
• http//www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id46
• Big6 and the Internet
• http//www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/alta/big6/
• Big6 Kids Site
• http//www.big6.com/kids/7-12.htm
• http//www.big6.com/showenewscategory.php?volumeE
  4issue1
• Big6 Lessons
• http//www.big6.com/showcategory.php?cid19
• http//nb.wsd.wednet.edu/big6/big6_resources.htmo
  verview
• http//www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm/big6info.htm

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Online Resources, cont.

• Big6 and Rubrics
• http//www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id39
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
• http//www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/trubrics.
  htm
• Big6 and Standards
• http//www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm/big6info.htm
• Big6 and Super3
• http//academic.wsc.edu/redl/classes/tami/super3.h
  tml
• Big6 and Technology
• http//www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id144
• Big6 and the Writing Process
• http//www.big6.com/kidsshowarticle.php?id316
• Joyce Valenzas Virtual Library
• http//mciu.org/spjvweb/jvles.html (Online
  lessons and activities)
• http//mciu.org/spjvweb/infolit.html (What is
  Information Literacy and Rationale)