Info+Lit+-+Group+1

Appoint one group member to be your group's scribe so you don't overlap content and one person to present back to the class.

Group Members: Andrea Alexander, Karmen Beecroft, Heidi Butterfield, Andrew Calvetti, John Cole

Give us your definition of information literacy: The ability to identify information needs, gain knowledge and effectively search and evaluate the strategies to fulfill those needs.

Brainstorm all the information literacy strategies you read about and/or know about as a group: Workshops, screencasts, webinars, podcasting, differentiated instruction, one-on-one problem solving, practice

What sort of skills will we teach students to become information literate? Search skills How to find and use a database Boolean search skills Verifying information validity using Mirlyn (or whatever computer based catalog is available) Information relevance (eliminating chatter / noise) How to properly cite information