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The Big6: Information & Technology Skills

The Big6: Information & Technology Skills. for Student Success. Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer Robdarrow@cusd.com. A Little About Me. Educator, 22 years – grades K-8 Clovis, CA – Central California LMT - over 700 student owned laptop computers at school Big6 user and trainer for the past 8 years

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The Big6: Information & Technology Skills

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  1. The Big6:Information & Technology Skills for Student Success Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer Robdarrow@cusd.com

  2. A Little About Me • Educator, 22 years – grades K-8 • Clovis, CA – Central California • LMT - over 700 student owned laptop computers at school • Big6 user and trainer for the past 8 years • Currently coordinate an online high school program • Colorado has one of the best online school cooperatives in the nation

  3. A Little About You 1. Task Definition • Big6 Cards • Name, job, school, years in education • Read the card • Which Big6 step is the card? 2. Info Seeking Strategies 3. Location & Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation

  4. My Beliefs • In an information rich society, you need more trained professionals • Students NEED trained teachers and professionals to guide them in how to use information – both print and digital • Teachers NEED to know how to guide students in the use of information

  5. Goals for Today • To understand the Big6 as it applies to information literacy. • To identify ways that you can incorporate the Big6 on Monday and throughout the semester. • To challenge you to think about the Big6 and technology integration.

  6. Outline of the Workshop • Part I: The information age: implications for learning, teaching and technology • Part II: Information literacy: the Big6 Skills process & approach • Part III: The Big6 and technology • Part IV: Big6 Implementation and Integration

  7. Info Lit Self Assessment • From Information Power • American Association of School Librarians. 1998.

  8. Your Lesson in Big6? • Be thinking of a lesson or unit you teach during the second semester…

  9. Why?

  10. Opportunity • Calvin and Hobbes • B.C. Cartoon

  11. Our mission as educators… • To motivate student learning • To define “learn”

  12. Why is this a challenge? • The definition of “learn” changes • The needs of the learners change • Consider these statistics…

  13. Facts about Information... • Today, the amount of information in the world doubles every two years. • In the year 2010, it is predicted that the amount of information will double every 72 hours.

  14. Background StatisticsInternet • The Internet had more users in its first five years than the telephone did in its first thirty • E-mail outnumbers regular mail by nearly ten to one • The web is still doubling in size…every 40-50 days (USA Today, 1996) • A new web page appears every 4 minutes

  15. More Background StatisticsInternet • According to a recent UCLA study (2000): • by 1997, some 19 million Americans were using the Internet…that number tripledin one year, and then passed 100 million in 1999. • In the first quarter of 2000, more than five million Americans joined the online world – • roughly 55,000 new users each day • 2,289 new users each hour, or • 38 new users each minute. • http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

  16. More Background StatisticsInternet • According to UCLA study (2001): • 72% of Americans go online each week for an average of 9 hours per week • The top reason Internet users go online: to obtain information quickly. • A new gap in patterns of Internet use is emerging: experienced vs. non-experienced users • http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

  17. Background StatisticsChildren • More than 17 million teens, or three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17, go online each month. • Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001, www.pewinternet.org • Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S. • Tapscott, Growing Up Digital (1998) • More school-age children in the nation use computers at school than at home (Newburger 2001). • Newburger, E. (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.

  18. Background StatisticsChildren • High school students today are first generation to grow up on the Internet • Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it • It is a world of analog adults and digital kids

  19. Internet Connectivity • In fall 2001, 99 percent of public schools in the United States had access to the Internet. • (NCES, 2002)

  20. Computing Power Computers today are one million times more powerful than 20 years ago.

  21. In 20 years computers will be one million times more powerful than today! Computing Power

  22. Challenges of the Information Age • Information Overload • Information Quality • Everywhere! • work • school • play

  23. Information Issue #1: Overload

  24. Information Overload “More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.” (Source: Large, P., The Micro Revolution, Revisited, 1984)

  25. Information Overload Today, a daily New York Times has more information in it than a person would come across in an entire lifetime in the 17th Century. David Lewis “Introduction to Dying for Information,” www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996

  26. Information Overload An example… David Lewis “Introduction to Dying for Information,” www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996

  27. OVERLOAD

  28. OVERLOAD

  29. Another…Information Overload Example “Should children be immunized? Are immunizations safe?” • Alta Vista: 454,150 hits • 5 minutes on each = 37,000 hours • Narrow to 100-200 that appear to be right = 50 - 100 hours. • Total Potential time to spend: 635 days or almost 2 years!!!

  30. Causing Overload Moore’s Law: Computing power doubles every 18 months! • In 18 months you get twice as much power and capacity for the same $$

  31. The Solution to Coping With Overload? • to speed things up? • to pack in more and more content? • to add more technology?

  32. Information Problem #2: Quality

  33. Quality • Researchers (Rand) checked out 6 health Web sites and 12 sites dedicated to specific diseases. • How frequently Web sites are complete and accurate: • Breast cancer 63% • Depression 44% • Obesity 37% • Childhood asthma 33% U.S. News & World Report, June 4, 2001 v130 i22 p10

  34. Quality “More than 2/3 of teens said within the last year that they use the Internet as their major resource when doing a big project for school..." Lester, Will "High School Students Love Net for Research." Syracuse Post Standard, 8/21/01 (from AP )

  35. Quality In a study of 500 sites used by Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research! Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html Colhoun, Alexander. "But - - I Found It on the Internet!" Christian Science Monitor. 25 April 2000: 16.

  36. Quality Advice on the Net: • The top legal advice person on Askme.com turned out to be a 14 year old whose only legal training was from Court TV and cop shows. • But – just as interesting, when he was finally “uncovered,” the demand for his advice still continued! • Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, July 2001; also Next (Norton, 2001)

  37. Quality: Searching the Web • Search mechanisms find less than 20% of everything that is on the web • It is estimated that the “dark or invisible web” is 400-500 times larger than the indexed commercial web.

  38. The Solution? Information Literacy!

  39. Video: Information Literacy • “e-literate” • Pacific Bell/UCLA

  40. Key Players to Meet the Need:Library Media Specialists “The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff…are effective users of ideas and information. • Information Power, 1988

  41. Information Literacy “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” American Library Association, 1989

  42. Information Literacy “Information literacy, the ability to locate, process and use information effectively, equips individuals to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the global information society.” Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Dev, 1991

  43. The Solution • Information Literacy! • Helping students to be discriminating users of information. • Helping students learn essential information & technology skills! • Use the Big6!

  44. WARNING! Teaching information & technology skills out of context is hazardous to your students’ health. Key to Information Literacy: CONTEXT!!

  45. A Question for you… • Tampa Bay Buccaneers? • Oakland Raiders? Who will win the Super Bowl?

  46. Break time

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