Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's MediaPrepare students for 21st Century Skills and the flood of information they encounter daily! Effective strategies, engaging activities, ideas, resources, and a variety of articles come together in this resource designed to help harness, understand, and use information in today's digital age. Both students and teachers will benefit from guidelines for evaluating sources of information, judging authenticity of data and trustworthiness of websites, and using information responsibly. Tips for using primary sources in the classroom, plus ideas on concept mapping, graphic organizing, and project-based learning are included. Other topics include netiquette, cyber safety, cyber bullying, and social networking. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and supports the Common Core State Standards. 232pp. |
Contents
About This Book | 7 |
Information Where Does It Come From? | 21 |
Organizing Information | 95 |
Where Did That Come From? | 107 |
The Copyright Quiz | 115 |
Copyright Scenarios | 121 |
Permission Request Activity Sheet | 129 |
Citing Sources Activity SheetAPA Style | 136 |
Search Techniques and Strategies | 139 |
The World of Libraries | 147 |
GO Harnessing Information | 177 |
Developing and Evaluating Multimedia Projects | 193 |
Websites by Chapter | 212 |
Specialized Search Engines and Directories | 223 |
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers | 229 |
Common terms and phrases
APA style Ask students Bernie Dodge Blogger.com Bloglines blogs catch phrases Chapter Citation Machine Citing Sources classroom collaborative copies created critical develop discussion downloaded EduBlog Education evaluate example Facebook five criteria George Lucas Google graphic organizers help students History Howard Gardner ideas images important information sources Internet interview IUPUI journal kids Kidspiration levels librarians Library of Congress literacy logos and catch look material multimedia Multiple Intelligences podcasts presentation project-based learning public library questions Reflection rubrics Sample Primary Source search engines share skateboard Starsong stories Strategies student Procedure students and teachers style T_____ F_____ teachers and students teaching television topic TV show U.S. Copyright understand visual WebQuest Widener University wiki Wikipedia words writing