The Big6: Information & Technology Skills Rob Darrow for Student Success (Day 2)

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 A Little About Me Educator, 26 years (Grades K-8) LMT at intermediate school (7-8) that now has over 700 students carrying laptop computers to school Big6 user and trainer - 11 years Coordinator, Online high school and Teaching American History History Day coach

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 A Little About You Librarians (+20, 15-20, 10-15, less 5) What did you used to teach? Subjects (history, English, science, math, special ed, admin/resource teachers, library, other?)

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 My Thoughts In an information rich society, you need more trained professionals Students NEED trained teachers and professionals to guide them in how to use information – both print and digital More critical to have trained teachers guiding students in the use of information than ever before

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 The Big 6 - It’s all about… The use of information Organizing information Sifting information Producing quality information Teaching kids how to do this so they achieve!

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Quiz Your results Why the Big6? How would you explain the Big6? Application in variety of areas What did you learn from Bob?

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Others Thoughts from Others About Information…

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Thomas Jefferson Information is the currency of democracy.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. – June 14, 1989

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Timothy Leary In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show. - Feb 1989

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Pauline Kael Art Critic Newsweek/The New Yorker In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Why? Some other opinions

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Opportunity Calvin and Hobbes cartoon – “Then forget it!” BC cartoon: “Define Learn”

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Why do this? To meet the needs of the teachers and students in our schools … and guide them in acquiring the information literacy skills they need…at any time, from any where.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Goals for Today Review the Big6. Focus on the “Micro” (Bob did the Macro) – Lesson Planning. – How does it look in every day use? Write Big6 lessons that fit your subject. Integrate the Big6 with the web

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Plan of Action / Implementation Handout Identify what you already do Identify what you would like to do Possible collaborators (name the teachers)

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 1. Task Definition 2. Info Seeking Strategies 3. Location & Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation Information & Technology Literacy The Big6 ™ Skills

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” American Library Association (1989) Information Literacy

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Information Literacy and the Big6… A little history Printing Press 1776 – Declaration of Independence – Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark; – Civil War 1917 – World War I 1941 – World War II 1972 – First personal computer 1974 – The term “information literacy” first used 1980 – Internet 1987 – Big6 Framework Published 1992 – World Wide Web

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Translates Information Literacy Skills into Systematic Stages “Simple yet complex.”

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The Little 12 Skills The Super 3 The Big6 Skills Info Lit Handbook p. 33

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Practice – Big6 Handbook Pages: Pages: 42-45

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 The Big6 Card Activity Acronym: TILUSE T T ask Definition I I nformation Seeking Strategies L L ocation and Access U U se of Information S S ynthesis E E valuation

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 BREAK

Group Big6 Lesson Discuss the Big6 homework you completed for Bob – How did it work? – How would you compare the same lesson without using the Big6?

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Group Big6 Lesson Note: A Big6 lesson usually focuses on one stage of the Big6 – E.g. Science research project Develop a Big6 Lesson

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Read Around p Instructional Design and Planning Micro and Macro

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 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 Strategies

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big 6 –Going to the movies An implementation strategy… visiting classrooms – use Big6 Bookmark

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 View your existing units and lessons in relation to the Big6. Explain assignments in a Big6 perspective. Focus on different Big6 stages with different lessons. Examples? Micro Planning - Guidelines

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 “Big Juicies” p. 106 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

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Macro Planning – p Schoolwide – librarian’s job In groups: – what are the “big juicies” in your school? On your own – (implementation ideas) – Think about your school – Jot down 5 “big juicies” for fall and spring – any subject/any teacher

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Standardized Testing in Georgia? Grade levels? Subjects?

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Standardized Testing How does information literacy and the Big6 fit into testing? Handbook p – homework organizer

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Okay, but what about technology? Technology

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Cartoon “Our teacher is getting smarter…yesterday she gave us homework we couldn’t even find on the Internet.”

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Today, the amount of information in the world doubles every two years. In the year 2010, it is predicted that the amount of information will double every 72 hours. Background Statistics Information

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Background Statistics Internet According to a recent UCLA study (2003): – Internet use at every age continues to increase – and in some age ranges, access approaches 100 percent. – report.asp report.asp

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 UCLA Internet Report. Ages 12-18

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Internet Users By States A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age. U.S. Department of Commerce. September Oct 2003 Sept 2001

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Background Statistics Children and Internet  Three-fourths of all U.S. kids ages 12 to 17 go online several times each week (17 million).  Cyber Dialogue. July, 2001,  Currently 88 million offspring ages 0-20 in U.S.  Tapscott (1998). Growing Up Digital.  More school-age children in the nation use computers at school than at home.  Newburger (2001). Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, August 2000.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 National Ed Tech Plan 2004 Internet Use is growing the fastest among children, ages 2-5. (2002 UCLA Internet Report) 1999 NCES Report: – 72 percent of all first graders used a home computer on a weekly basis during the summer – 97 percent of kindergarteners had access to a computer at school or home –

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 National Ed Tech Plan 2004 Teens spend more time online using the Internet than watching television. 94 percent of online teens use the Internet for school-related research.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 In a study of 500 Web sites used by Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research! Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, Challenge: Quality

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Internet “Blogs” The number of “web logs” or blogs is doubling in size every 6 months. Now, more than 7.8 million blogs. Check out MySpace.com or Xanga.com for teen blogs. MySpace gets twice the number of daily hits than Google

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Digital kids and Analog Adults The world we live in… Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Big6 Trainer. 02/06  High school students today: first generation to grow up on the Internet  Students internalize technology use, while adults have to adopt it Children and Internet: The Facts

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 An example… Bedtime Story Cartoon on computer

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 The Solution? Don’t use technology or the Internet? Discourage Web Use? Filtering?

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Alternative Solutions Alternative Solutions process To focus on process as well as content – Information Literacy! – Discriminating users of information. – Learn essential information & technology skills! – The Big6!

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Implementation: CONTEXT!! WARNING! Teaching information & technology skills out of context is hazardous to your students’ health.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Technology – Out of Context (p. 57) Multimedia production (PowerPoint) ftp Programming Instant Messaging HTML Telnet Algorithms Video production Word processing Group discussion Use of operating systems Statistical analysis presentation Database management systems CAD/CAM Copy/paste Web page design Graphics Chat Web browsing Electronic indexes Web searching Online catalogs Electronic spreadsheets Upload/download Spell/grammar check Brainstorming software PDAs Inspiration Hyperstudio

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Word processing Group discussion Online catalogs Electronic indexes Web browsing Web searching Electronic spreadsheets Upload/download HTML Spell/grammar check Brainstorming software PDAs Video production Algorithms Instant Messaging Multimedia production (PowerPoint, Hyperstudio) ftp Chat Graphics Database management Inspiration Use of operating systems Web page design Copy/paste Statistical analysis presentation CAD/CAM Telnet Programming Better, But Still Out of Context

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Technology in Context! (p. 62) TASK DEFINITION , online discussions (listservs, newsgroups), chat, video conferencing, desktop conferencing, groupware, brainstorming software, Inspiration, instant messaging INFO SEEKING STRATEGIES online catalogs, info retrieval, electronic resources (CD- ROMs nets), WWW/net resources, Q&A services (AskERIC), online discussion groups (listservs) LOCATION & ACCESS online catalogs, electronic indexes, WWW browsers, search engines (Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, WebCrawler), AskERIC,, telnet, ftp, USE OF INFORMATION upload/download, word processing, copy-paste, Inspiration, outliners, spreadsheets, databases (for analysis of data), statistical packages SYNTHESIS word processing, dtp, graphics, spreadsheets, data base systems, Inspiration, hypermedia, presentation software, down/up load, ftp, e-journals, listservs, newsgroups, Web page authoring (HTML) EVALUATION spell/grammar checkers, , online discussions (listservs, newsgroups), chat, desktop conferencing, groupware

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Technology & Education Information technology fundamentally affects every aspect of education— because learning & teaching are fundamentally information-based.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Practice: Technology in a Big6 Context – p. 58 Related Big6: synthesis Related electronic technologies: paint, draw, graphics, video and photo-editing Baseline technology: colored pencils

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Practice: Technology in a Big6 Context highlighting Related Big6: use of information Related electronic technologies: copy/paste, download, file transfer; highlight Baseline technology:

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Exercise: Technology in a Big6 Context Baseline technology: – magazines and books Related Big6: – information seeking strategies, – use of information Related electronic technologies: – full-text electronic resources, CD-ROMs, WWW sites, databases

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Baseline technology: – pen and paper Related Big6: – synthesis – use of information Related electronic technologies: – word processing, desktop publishing, multimedia, presentation software, web page authoring Exercise: Technology in a Big6 Context

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Exercise: Technology in a Big6 Context Baseline technology: – face-to-face meeting Related Big6: – TILUSE Related electronic technologies: – , listservs, video conferencing, discussion boards, chat

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 The Bottom Line Use of the Big6 Effective users of information (information literacy) Better jobs

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Before Lunch Thought "There are two fundamental equalizers in life: the Internet and education." -John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems, 1999

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 LUNCH

Curriculum Curriculum - Big6 Integration Big6 Integrated Program

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Georgia Learning Connection m m Is it used? Consider it from the information literacy or Big6 perspective Build “Big6” lesson plans for all

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Schoolwide Implementation “Implementation Ideas” What needs to happen? How do you want to do this? Where does it fit?

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Summary 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.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Turbo Tools TurboTools guides students-- from start to finish--through the Big6 process to create projects and complete assignments of all types, including research papers and book reports.

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Big6 Web Work Information Seeking Activity – Search the Web Webquest Explore the Big6 Website – Big6 Treasure Hunt Identify Big6 Correlated Web sites you can use – Location and Access Share with Group – Synthesis

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Big6 Workshop Evaluation Evaluation Time

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Implementation: CONTEXT!! WARNING! Teaching information & technology skills out of context is hazardous to your students’ health.

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Think Big(6)! This is really important!!! Think Big(6)! This is really important!!! Call to Action

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 Rob Darrow Big6 Trainer

Big6 Trainer. 02/06 All Big6 resources available from: Linworth