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- American
Association of School Librarians
- Resources for information literacy. Includes information literacy
standards, guidelines, toolkits and resources. This is an extensive
resource.
- Virtual
Information Inquiry: The 8Ws
- An information processing model is similar to the work of others in
the field such as Eisenberg, McKenzie and Kuhlthau The 8Ws are watching
(or exploring), wondering (or questioning), webbing (or searching),
wiggling (or evaluating), weaving (or synthesizing), wrapping (or creating),
waving (or communicating) and wishing (or assessing).
- Big6
- Developed by educators Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6
is a widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and
technology skills. The 6 stages include task definition, information
seeking strategies, location and access, use of information, synthesis
and evaluation.
- Kuhlthau's
Model of the Stages of the Information Process
- Document outlining the 6 stages of the information process, further
explored into task, thoughts, feelings, actions and strategies. The
steps are task initiation, topic selection, prefocus exploration, focus
formulation, information collection and search closure.
- Independent
Investigation Method (IIM)
- This is a teaching model that guides primary, elementary, and secondary
students through the research process. The steps include topic, goal
setting, research, organizing, goal evaluation, product and presentation.
- Information
Literacy from Learning and Teaching Scotland.
- An Online resource for use with younger pupils to learn how to identify,
locate, evaluate, organise and effectively use information.
- I-Search
- Part of the Make-It-Happen approach – this has four phases of
instruction for American middle schools. Phase 1 – teachers introduce
the students to the main topic and the students develops an I-Search
question; phase 2 – the student develops the search plan; phase
3 – the students follow the search plan, gather information and
synthesise the information; and in the final phase – the students
draft, revise, edit, and publish their I-Search Report.
- Jamie
McKenzie’s research cycle
- This is an interesting article, introducing "data smog"
and has useful links. The research cycle includes questioning, planning,
gathering, sorting and sifting, synthesizing, evaluating and reporting.
- James Herring’s
PLUS Model.
- An iterative, not linear, model to help pupils to make their own
learning more effective through improved information literacy. The model
consists of four parts – purpose, location, use and self-evaluation.
- KCTools
- Part of the AASL toolkit which introduces pupils to the research process,
the 'KidsConnect's research toolbox for students' has four simple steps
– I wonder, I find, I evaluate and I share.
- Noodletools
- Great for search strategies and bibliographic citation tools. There
are a range of free and subscription services and the software auto-generates
bibliographic citations or search strategies from the user’s input.
- South
Ayrshire
- Although this was created in 1998 and is no loner updated, it is a
useful reference site with an information skills tutorial. Steps include
– defining and planning; identifying and selecting; searching
and retrieving; analysing and organising; communicating and presenting;
and reviewing and learning.
- Webquests
and WebQuestUK
- An enquiry-based activity using pre-selected web resources and focussing
on the information management rather than the search. UK version based
on the original concept but links quests to the National Curriculum.
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