Information Literacy

Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm
Information to Information Literacy, standards, resources and ideas and professional activities are on this site.

University of Texas Tutorial
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
Research includes the use of a variety of resources including the internet and this tutorial can help increase literacy skills and more effective use the internet and other sources.

SCORE History-Social
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/infolit/
A major goal of SCORE is to provide a resource to build the information literacy of students. This site provides help in planning skills related to literacy, helps students to interpret data, analyzes, uses multiple perspectives, supports a thesis, evaluates quality of information and more.

Information Literacy on the WWW
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/iliweb.html

This site from the Florida International University Libraries lists WWW sites in six categories.

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
http://bulldogs.tlu.edu/mdibble/doril/index.html

The list of resources includes assessment, definitions, information literacy plans, process, programs k-12 and more.

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Big6 Information Literacy and Research Process

Big Six Research Process
http://www.eca.com.ve/library/Staff_dev/big_six_research_process.htm
Information Problem Solving "The Big Six"

http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Science/Research.html
Big6 Bibliography and web sites for Models for Information Literacy


   Essential Questions

Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-based Learned
http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html

This is an 8 step approach to the research process and much of it overlaps with the Big6. Particularly check the sections about questions. There are also links to more information at the end of the article much of them related to science.


Math Star Essential Questions.
http://mathstar.nmsu.edu/exploration1/unit/content_questions.html
These are key questions that help to focus learning. Learn what constitutes an essential question and how they are written.


The Role of Questions

http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/the-role-of-questions.cfm

Thinking is not driven by answers but by questions. To think through or rethink anything, one must ask questions that stimulate our thought.

From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions
http://fno.org/feb01/pl.html
Standards based learning does not have to eliminate thinking.


Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development

http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/137
Our "essential" idea is that the goal of education is to get students to use their minds.

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Last updated: 03.27.2007
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