Inside Higher Ed :: Librarians Tackle Information Illiteracy
100 percent of incoming liberal arts freshmen surveyed use online sources, most think it’s easy to know when to document a source but nearly half couldn’t determine when one was required
» How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning
Will at Work Learning: People remember 10%, 20%...Oh Really?
Critical Evaluation of Information Sources (University of Oregon Libraries)
It’s not just students who have trouble evaluating sources… : UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas
2¢ Worth » Practicing the Habits of Literacy
But if students are asked to research on a liberally open and reasonably safe Internet, to evaluate and validate what they learn, to apply it to other findings, sift and select and then express what they’ve learned, <u>to be responsible for what they learn</u>, then you’re integrating something into the lesson that will not change — Literacy Habits. Even literacy skills will change. But the habits won’t.
Big6: An Information Problem-Solving Process
Information and technology literacy model plus curriculum for K-12 through higher ed. Can be used as a problem solving model too. Includes 6 stages: task definition, information seeking strategies, location & access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation.
FactCheckED: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy
Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. Aligned to National Social Studies standards and NETS info literacy.
Sensory Integration | Brain Rules |
Several people have mentioned John Medina's book Brain Rules. A lot of this sounds common sense, but check the footnotes on slides 2 & 3 for his rule "Sensory Integration: Stimulate more of the senses." He has a nice chart about how much more we remember for passive/active learning with multiple senses stimulated. He cites Dale's cone of experience, but he has numbers for each level, so we know he's, shall we say, stretching the research a bit.
The NCTE Definition of 21st-Century Literacies
NCTE's literacies for the 21st century, including technology, problem-solving, information literacy, multimedia, and ethics
Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Learning strategy: follow disgruntle
An interesting idea for a learning strategy--we read so much online from people who are like us and agree with us that when you read something that makes you disgruntled, it may be a cue to dig deeper. Includes a good quote from Ton Zijlstra (via Harold Jarche) about information overload.
A little while ago, <a href="http://www.jarche.com">Harold Jarche</a> sent this quotation: “”Information overload does not exist. Failing information strategies do exist. ”
A Networked Life – Ton Zijlstra on Social Networking
Full quote from Ton Zijlstra on information overload, in the original interview about the value of social media and networking
Information overload does not exist. Failing information strategies do exist. We were brought up with information strategies based on scarcity. We live in times of information abundance.
Principles for a New Media Literacy
Media literacy principles for consumers and producers. Much of this is about information literacy--learning to be skeptical of sources, learning to filter out the unimportant, watching for credibility, providing accountability, active participation.