"Information Literacy: Search Strategies, Tools & Resources for High School Students and College Freshmen" by Zorana Ercegovac
Draws on learning theories, research, and AASL's position on information literacy using a tried and true approach. Considers five types of learning: content understanding, problem-solving, metacognition, collaboration, and communication. Includes lesson plans, information literacy skills pre-test and post test, scoring rubrics and a checklist for evaluating online databases Gives expert advice on teaching information literacy and making the transition between high school and college. Based on emperical research and written by an expert, this book provides the information a media specialist needs to teach information literacy skills in a meaningful, useful, and strategic manner. A copy of this book will assit the media specialist in preparing students for their future, including college research. An annotated bibliography identifies and summarizes major works in the various aspects of information literacy and assessment techniques. Everything you need to know to prepare your students is included in this masterful second edition.
"The Collaboration Handbook" by Toni Buzzeo
Toni Buzzeo, the Guru of Collaboration books, has written another clear, comprehensive, and concise book. This handbook is full of information for the administrator, teacher, and librarian to promote, apply, and use data driven analysis to use collaboration successfully in student learning. She moves the school personnel step by step through the continuum of Instructional Partnership. These steps include: cooperation to coordination to collaboration to data driven collaboration. The handbook has extensive examples of templates and assessment tools. One is downloadable on her Web site. The last section of the handbook shows how collaboration increases test scores, usage of new technologies such as Web 2.0, and lesson plans using evidence-based practices. Not only does Buzzeo tell the truth about various roadblocks (time to meet, scheduling, etc.), she has common sense and suggestions to fix those roadblocks. Another chapter shows how the LMS can be the best advocate and how each administrator, teacher, and student can advocate for collaboration. Before you know it, everyone is collaborating. Highly Recommended. Deborah Cavitt, Educational Reviewer and Learning Resource Specialist, Duncanville, Texas --Library Media Connection
READY! SET! RESEARCH! by Marvin Tervan
It's easy for kids to feel intimidated by a research project. This new user-friendly guide is the simple answer to some not-so-easy questions. With big, helpful headings, humorous illustrations, and bold graphics, this fun and fast guide offers a logical, step-by-step approach to finding it, writing it, and getting it done!
"The BIG 6 in elementary schools" by Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz
The authors point out that their model for problem solving is not unique, but that its application to the world of information and technology gives it relevance. The six steps they prescribe are: "Task Definition," "Information Seeking Strategies," "Location & Access," "Use of Information," "Synthesis," and "Evaluation." However, Eisenberg and Berkowitz do not advocate following the steps in a linear fashion, but applying them as each situation demands. Sample lessons demonstrate how to integrate the Big6 into the curriculum and to teach students how to select appropriate resources, discriminate between needed and superfluous information, and evaluate their progress and success. The book promotes the use of indexes while doing research and, accordingly, contains an extensive index. Cooperation and coordination among classroom teachers, media specialists, technology teachers, and others involved in the teaching process are advised. The practical suggestions, student handouts, and evaluation tools make this a worthwhile volume.
Edith Ching, St. Albans School, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, DC
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