there is a community wide understanding about the importance of
information literacy skills as the key to lifelong learning. We are
developing common agreements on what information skills are, what we
call them (terminology) and how to best model and teach them. We
frequently discuss student expectations and academic integrity. Through
collaboration, the development of shared goals and expectations we seek
to combine content, information literacy/research and tech skills into
an exciting learning experience for students.=20
Here are some of the ways we seek buy-in:
The department met this summer with subject-area teachers to discuss the
research process and information literacy skills. We have drafted our
own version of a scaffolded research process and will be testing it in
our middle school throughout the academic year as we collect exemplars
of student work to study next summer. As a study group, we are also
reading and discussing professional books about research and information
literacy.
In our lower school, we are "embedding" librarians into fourth grade
language arts classrooms so that they can team-teach research skills as
the students work on research projects throughout the year. We have
identified important skills to stress with each research project, for
example how to formulate good, realistic questions, identifying and
using text features, and so on.
Since we are a combined library/tech department, we teach a fair amount
of information literacy skills through our tech classes. For example,
students working on a research project for humanities might brainstorm
questions using Inspiration in their tech classes. Or they can practice
an oral presentation using Audacity in their tech classes. Many such
research-oriented tech classes are team-taught by librarians and tech
teachers.
We also regularly present to faculty and parents on topics such as
information and media literacy. Bit by bit, we are hopefully getting the
message across.
Thanks.
Marilyn Meyerson
Head, Library and Technology
The Key School
<mmeyerson@keyschool.org>
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Coralu Buddenbohm
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:14 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Information Literacy
I am interested in how schools have been able to get faculty to
"buy-into" information literacy instruction which is bound to cut into
other instruction time. Is there a collaborative effort among teachers,
librarians, tech staff to work out a
curriculum that matches certain tech/library sources with certain
discipline or content projects? Do the librarians/tech determine what
skills and resources should be used at what level and then the teachers
match projects or products from their
curriculums that could be used with the resources? Thanks in advance
for any input. =20
Coralu Buddenbohm
Assistant Librarian
Lausanne Collegiate School
1381 W. Massey Rd.
Memphis, TN. 38120
cbuddenbohm@lausanneschool.com
Library (901) 474-1014
Voicemail (901) 474-1203
http://www.lausanneschool.com
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