Making the Link

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Making the Link

• A Resource for Teachers

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Making the link

• We have made a commitment to being involved in
  the Heretaunga Futures ICTPD Cluster. Through
  the use of information processes, the integration
  of ICT and the movement from a teacher centred
  approach to a child centred approach to teaching,
  we aim to raise the quality of teaching and
  learning and increase student achievement.
• As a cluster we are at the stage where we
  are exploring different information processes and
  preparing to plan for our own inquiry learning
  units either as syndicates or individual classes.
• This is a interactive resource for teachers to
  help make the link between Information Literacy
  and ICT. This resource explores an information
  process and explains the different resources and
  things you could use at each of the stages. This
  resource can be used by teachers when planning
  their own inquiry learning unit or to share at
  workshops, seminars or staff meetings.
• Hopefully this resource will not only outline
  the steps in an information process but give you
  lots of ideas on how to integrate ICT into your
  classroom programme.
• This resource will enable you to more
  clearly make the link between information
  literacy and ICT and assist you when planning for
  a unit.
• Note If you use this with a connection to the
  internet the links will work.

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Overview
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Immersion and Ignition

• At this stage of the information process we are
  saturating the students with information on the
  topic. The students become masterminds in the
  topic acquiring knowledge of the topic now, in
  the past and in the future.
• They become something of an expert.
• We read, watch, listen, discuss, view, think
  about, wonder, review, experience, mind map.
• Consider using
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Wonderings and Questioning

• At this stage in the information process we are
  wondering and asking things about the topic. We
  are preparing rich higher order thinking
  questions that we still want answers to.
• What still interests you? What do you still
  want to find information on? We are creating the
  essential question or hypothesis.
• We are creating subsidiary questions or
  supporting questions to help us answer our
  essential question.
• We are discussing and creating assessment
  criteria possibly using a rubric.
• Here are some thinking tools to help generate
  questions
• Are you thinking yet? Reframing a Question
  Template
• Questioning Toolkit Key Words Template
• Thinkers Keys
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Planning and Search Strategy

• At this stage of the information process we are
  forming a plan that will help us answer our
  questions.
• Students will fill out an Inquiry Planner. It
  will be filled out and signed by the teacher
  BEFORE students start gathering information to
  answer their questions.
• What sources can students use?
• What are all the sources students could use to
  get the information they need. Get students to
  make a wish list. List of possible sources
• Where do I go to find each of the sources I want
  to use?
• School Library or Public Library.
• The Internet is a great source of information
  but can waste time as you search. Try specific
  search engines.
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Discovering and Interpreting

• At this stage in the information process simply
  follow through with and complete your inquiry
  planner. Use an organiser to help store
  information, your own thoughts and
  discoveries...wonderings that might require
  further answers.
• Graphic Organiser Resources
• Organisers
• Templates
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Creating and Communicating

• At this stage of the information process
  students should be asking these questions.
• How can I put all of my discoveries together to
  present what I have learned?
• What presentation format does my assignment
  require?
• (paper, poster, oral presentation, etc.)
• Students may need to go back and review your
  assignment sheet or assessment criteria to be
  sure of what is required.
• If students have complete freedom and havent
  make a decision yet,look at alternative formats
  to present information.
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Celebrate and Evaluate

• At this stage in the information process
  students should be self assessing or pair
  assessing their work and the process they
  followed to gain the information to their
  questions. They should be asking themselves
  things like
• Is this assignment/presentation any good?
• Students should be the first person to evaluate
  their own work.
• Is my task finished? How did I do?
• Have I complete the assignment given by the
  teacher? Go back and review the assignment
  criteria again to be sure e.g. rubric.
• Have I completed all the parts? This evaluation
  depends on a lot of different criteria. Some of
  the criteria might be written by the teacher in
  the assignment or given as a rubric.
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Consider using

• Books
• Magazine Articles
• Newspaper Articles
• Maps or Atlases
• Expert people
• Site visits (to museums, etc.)
• Television Shows
• Radio Shows
• Sound Recordings, Podcasts
• Video Recordings
• Video Conferencing
• Electronic Databases
• Websites, Blogs
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Rubric

• A 'rubric' is a description of what a student
  should know or be able to do and it often
  indicates different levels of performance.
• Refer to these websites for resources and ideas
• Discovery School
• Rubrics 4 Teachers
• Rubrics and Evaluation Tools
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Possible sources of Information

• Get students to highlight the sources on their
  list that they will most likely be able to use,
  given the time andsources you have available.
• Give them a prioritised number order for which
  you will use first, which second... etc...
• Once you do this, students can put this
  information onto their Inquiry Planner.
• Hint Librarians are very useful at knowing
  which kinds of sources can be used to find
  certain types of information. Use their
  expertise. It will save students valuable time.
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• Could include any of the following
• Books
• Magazine Articles
• Newspaper Articles
• Maps or Atlases
• Expert people
• Site visits (to museums, etc.)
• Television Shows
• Radio Shows
• Sound Recordings
• Video Recordings
• Electronic Databases
• Websites
• CD ROMs
• Online encyclopaedias
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Video conferencing
• Instant messaging

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Alternative Formats
Here is a list of some alternative ways to
present your project, other than the traditional
paper method

• Visual
• Badges, Bumper Stickers, BannerBulletin Board,
  Cartoon, ChartCollage, Dance, Diorama, Display,
  Drawing, Graph, Map, Mask, Pantomime, Painting,
  Paper-Mache, Photographs, Poster, Scrapbook,
  Slide Show, Transparency, Videotape
• Computer-based
• Power Point Presentation, Web Page, Podcasts,
  Blog, Video, Publisher.
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• WrittenAdvertising Campaign, BookletGame,
  Diary, Letter, Log Magazine, Magazine or
  Newspaper Article, Play, Poem, Story, Travel
  Brochure
• Oral
• Audio tape, Debate, DialogueDramatization,
  Interview, Oral Report, Panel Discussion, Play,
  Puppet Show, Skit, Song, Speech, Story

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Search Engines

• kids click
• ask jeeves for kids
• yahooligans
• Ivy's search engine resources page
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Organisers

• Here are some graphic organiser templates to get
  you started
• Freeology Graphic Organisers
• Graphic Organiser Library
• Graphic.Org
• Web English Teacher
• Enchanted Learning
• Ed-Helper.Com
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Information Templates

• Here are some templates that students can use to
  help gather information on their topic. You may
  like to make some of your own.
• Information sources Sheet 1
• Information sources Sheet 2
• Note Taking Sheet
• The Facts AboutSo
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