A workshop I facilitated at my school's January professional development day.

1. teaching research
sarah ludwig
hamden hall p.d. day
january 3rd, 2012

2. how our students do research
● wikipedia
○ how it works
○ the history
○ the discussion page
○ flags
● how google works
○ pagerank
● yahoo answers & similar
● copy & paste?

3. what is the value of
information literacy
instruction?

4. information literacy is the ability to:
● recognize a need for information
● identify & locate appropriate information
sources
● know how to gain access to those sources
● evaluate the quality of the information
offered by those sources
● organize the information
● use the information effectively
(source: hancock)

5. do our students possess these skills?

6. what do you think is the value of
students gaining information literacy skills?

7. some great sites (with mostly primary
sources)
● archive.org
○ the wayback machine
● library of congress
● national archive
● internet public library
● national science digital library
● iconn.org
○ kids infobits
● new york public library
● smithsonian [and for kids]

8. what are some challenges you face in
introducing information literary skills
into your curriculum?

9. your information literacy menu
● the pros & cons of wikipedia
● presearch/essential questions
● the battle of the sources
● in your own words
● mla citation
● research helpers
○ evernote
○ diigo
○ noodle tools
○ dropbox
○ scoop.it

10. what are the next steps for
integrating information literacy
into your curriculum?

11. thank you so much!