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9780938865971

The Big6 Collection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780938865971

  • ISBN10:

    0938865978

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Linworth Pub Co
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Summary

Collects articles from the "Big6 newsletter," dealing with a technique for teaching students information literacy, involving six broad skill areas necessary for successful information problem-solving.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Notes from Mike and Bob vii
Part I: Information Literacy 1(26)
What Every Educator Should Know About Information Literacy
3(12)
What Every Educator Should Know About Information Literacy, Part I
3(5)
What Every Educator Should Know About Information Literacy, Part II
8(1)
What Every Educator Should Know About Information Literacy, Part III
9(6)
Research Reports
15(10)
Models of Information Literacy
15(2)
The Work of Stephen Krashen
17(1)
The Work of Carol A. Kuhlthau
18(1)
The Work of Seymour Papert
19(2)
The Work of Ross Todd
21(1)
The Work of Marjorie Pappas
22(3)
The Big6 Skills Approach to Information and Technology Literacy
25(2)
Part II: Big6 Skills 27(12)
Implementing the Big6: Context, Context, Context
29(3)
Implementing the Big6: Part II: Plans and Planning
32(7)
Part III: Big6 Practical Approaches: K-Adult 39(52)
Little Kids
41(12)
So What About Working with the Very Youngest?
41(1)
Awareness and Fun with Information! Introducing Young Researchers to Information Problem-Solving with Big6 Activities
42(2)
A Home for Toad: Using Storytelling to Teach Big6 Skills
44(2)
A Home for Toad: The Actual Story
46(1)
The Bright Bird-A Problem-Solving Allegory
47(2)
Be a Big6 Detective: Introducing the Big6 Problem-Solving Process Using Nate the Great
49(1)
It's Primary: Big6 Skills + One Book + Ingenuity = Project Success!
50(1)
Getting Started with Information Problem-Solving Isn't a Problem When One Begins with a Book
51(1)
Extra, Extra, Tell All About It!
52(1)
Middle Kids
53(2)
Not Just For the Younger Set: Booktalking Revisited
53(2)
Big Kids
55(10)
The Big6: Not Just for Kids!
55(4)
Looking at Life through Big6-Colored Glasses
59(1)
Spreading the Word: Teaching about the Big6 and Technology
60(5)
Special Kids
65(6)
Including All Students: The Big6 Helps to Level the Playing Field
65(4)
Leveling the Playing Field-Part II: Using the Big6 Model to Plan Instruction for Students with Special Needs
69(2)
Kids & Sports
71(6)
Sports and the Big6: The Information Advantage
71(3)
More On Sports and the Big6
74(3)
Kids & the Internet
77(14)
Technology-More than an Answer in Search of a Question
77(2)
Netting the Big6: Integrating Instruction, Information Skills, and the Internet
79(3)
Use the Big6 to Harness the Internet!
82(2)
Jason and Big6 on the Web: A Media Specialist and a Computer Application Instructor Join Forces to Teach a Web-Based Research Class
84(4)
How I Cloned Myself with Big6 on the World Wide Web
88(3)
Part IV: TIPS (Teaching Information Problem Solving) 91(26)
Getting Their Attention
93(2)
Teaching the Process with Calvin & Hobbes
93(1)
Using Big6 Glasses
94(1)
Task Definition
95(4)
Task Definition-Turning the Tables
95(1)
E-mail For Task Definition
95(1)
Task Definition for Those Vague or Confusing Assignments
96(1)
Focus on Task Definition
96(1)
The Big6 Applied to Everyday Situations
97(2)
Information Seeking Strategies
99(2)
Brainstorm/Narrow to Set an Information Seeking Strategy
99(1)
Information Seeking Strategies: Spying in Sports via the Internet
100(1)
Location and Access
101(2)
Keyword Searching
101(2)
Use of Information
103(6)
Citing the Sources
103(1)
The Trash-N-Treasure Note-Taking Technique
103(1)
Active Listening Strategies
104(2)
Structured Note-Taking-A Technique for Coping with Information Overload
106(1)
Note-Taking 101
107(1)
Like To Use Textbooks? Here's a Big6 Option for You
107(2)
Synthesis
109(2)
Synthesis Ideas that Make Dollars and Sense
109(2)
Evaluation
111(2)
Evaluation - Recognizing Nonlinearity in the Process
111(2)
Conclusion
113(4)
Big6 with a Country Twist
113(2)
Big6 Booktalking
115(1)
Motivation and Teaching the Big6
115(2)
Part V: Assessment 117(20)
Student Self-Assessment Skills: Focus on Success
119(1)
Student Self-Assessment Skills: Focus on Success, Part II
120(3)
Assessment: Big6 Scoring Guides for Diagnosis and Prescription
123(3)
The Big6 and Student Achievement: Report of an Action Research Study
126(3)
Interview with Scott Hopsicker-Big6 Success Story!
129(8)
Part VI: Teaching Aides 137(10)
The Famous ``Banana Split Lesson''
139(2)
Big6 Day: The Info Show!
141(2)
Big6 Bulletin Boards
143(1)
Big6 Poetry
144(1)
Big6 Song
145(2)
Part VII: Big6 in Action 147(30)
State Wide Implementation of Big6 Skills---Utah
149(16)
Introduction: The Utah Big6 Special Issue
149(1)
Information Literacy Across the Curriculum: The Utah Experience with the Big6
150(5)
Begin at the Beginning: The Big6 in the K-2 School
155(2)
The Big6 Goes to Middle School: Teaching an Integrated Unit
157(4)
The Big6 and Electronics: Research in the Rockies
161(2)
Going for the Gold
163(2)
Reports from the Front Lines---Integrating Big6 into the Curriculum
165(12)
v1 n1 p3, 15
165(1)
v1 n2 p3, 14
166(2)
v1 n3 p3
168(1)
v1 n4 p3, 15
169(1)
v1 n5 p3, 5
170(1)
v2 n2 p8, 14
171(1)
v2 n3 p3, 15
172(2)
v2 n5 p3, 11
174(1)
v2 n6 p8-9
175(2)
Part VIII: Virtual Wisdom 177(16)
AskA Services
179(1)
Finding Lessons, Units, and Other Educational Material on the Web
179(1)
A Hyperfiction Continuum (Interactive Documents)
180(2)
Intranets
182(1)
Presenting a Good Image
183(2)
Real Time Messaging for Collaboration
185(1)
Synthesis Tools
186(1)
Web Authoring
187(2)
Web Portals-Make Them Work For You
189(1)
MP3-The Future of Audio?
190(3)
Part IX: Parent Connection 193(6)
Helping With Homework
195(1)
Parents and the Big6-Its Time!
196(3)
Part X: Final Notes 199(4)
Questions? Ask Mike and Bob
201(2)
Index 203

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