Part 4: The Big6: Information & Technology Skills Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer for Student Success

Big6 Cards or Video: Lucy and Information Literacy

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

View your existing units and lessons in relation to the Big6. Explain assignments from a Big6 perspective. Offer specific Big6 lessons (tied to curriculum) classroom teachers, library & information specialists and technology teachers. Micro Planning - Guidelines

Big6 Template – Choose a curriculum unit context (grade, subject, assignment) – Determine 1 Big6 stage as an objective – Sketch out a possible lesson Share your ideas Micro Planning – Plan One!

Big6 - Curriculum Connection Workshop Handbook – p. 91 Essay questions on controversial science topics Mythology projects 10th Grade – probability – coin flipping Making a TV/radio commercial or billboard on nutrition (or drugs, smoking, alcohol) Ancient Rome – radio shows

Big6 - Curriculum Connection Workshop Handbook – p. 91 Test on causes of World War I Making graphs using spreadsheet software Biology lab Reading poems Web authoring – weather in various places in the U.S.

Macro Planning (LMS, Dept. Head, Dist. Library Coordinator) Skills x Unit Plans p

Macro Planning LMS/Dist Librarian Curriculum Map Assessment Student Achievement Documentation

Curriculum Map: Middle p. 121

Sample Skills by Unit Matrix: Mr. Hancock

Ways to organize By categories By time - chronologically As as story - narrative Progression (continuum) Alphabetically Any combinations of the above

Assessment P. 76

“Big Juicies” p. 106 Are important units in the curriculum: have a longer duration reach many students involve a report, project, or product use multiple resources involve a range of teaching methods

Context: the process information problem solving - the Big6 Context: technology in context technology within the process Context: curriculum real needs in real situations assignments: papers, reports, projects skills x unit matrix Implementation

Curriculum Curriculum - Big6 Integration Big6 Integrated Program

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

REFLECTION POINT – Questions – Summary – Conclusions – Evaluation (workshop) – Commitment Sheet

Summary It’s an information-rich and complex world. Information & technology literacy – essential skills for the information age. The Big6 – powerful approach to information literacy – can implement immediately. Technology – gains meaning if learned and used in a Big6 context. Fully integrates with the classroom: 1+1=1.

Final Thoughts "There are two fundamental equalizers in life: the Internet and education." -John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, 1999

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