LIBE 477 - Reading Review #3
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Reading Review #3
My takeaways from my research and explorations so far is that there are a million and one sites that contain information on information literacy skills and the inquiry process, however, I never found one complete site with everything included. This is probably a good thing since I intend to start creating one for the final project! After mapping out everything that I hope to include, I can only say that the project will be a teachable inquiry process framework that will be filled in and fleshed out in the months after this course, as there is A LOT that I want to include, and some of it will be content creation if I am not happy with what I find out there... which will have to come later.
The web searching that I did was actually a little overwhelming. Every university has their own plagiarism and bibliography pages, so I will just have to choose one and go with it once I get to planning that lesson. Many personal/professional websites and blogs also have tests and acronyms to assess credible sites, so I will need to review a few of those and choose the one that I feel applies best to grades 6-10. There are also several inquiry models to base my project on, luckily, have decided on the BCTLA's The Points of Inquiry, mixed up with the Big6 and Kuhlthau's affective domains of her Information Seeking Process, so that is where I will begin.
Another area that was frankly mind boggling are all the sites that list the Top 10 Educational Apps/Web 2.0 tools for Inquiry projects, etc. There are SO MANY apps available, so I will have to take some time digging through reviews and recommendations and choose a few to teach to my students that demonstrate an array of final presentation options. This is the part that excites me the most and I feel students will be the most engaged in. There are so many cool technology tools available today that supports a wide range of multimodal formats, really the sky (and student imagination) is the limit of what is possible, and I really want students to feel that they have the option to take it somewhere beyond a powerpoint, poster, or report.
As I continued to dig into the inquiry process and information literacy skills, I found many sites and articles that expressed the benefits of the inquiry process on student engagement and learning, and others that made connections between inquiry, the learning commons, and 21st century skills. However, I found it difficult to find scholarly articles on the benefits of using technology during the information inquiry process to teach the lessons and for the final project. I found several that talked about the potential to use Web 2.0 tools for student inquiry, however, they were all from 2008/2009 and many of the apps that they suggested are not longer available, and they talked about the emerging practice of inquiry based learning, which we are way beyond. I guess the issue with writing a paper on using technology and apps to enhance student learning and the inquiry process is that it becomes outdated as soon as you publish it.
All in all, I have my work cut out for me and I am excited to start building and gather up my sites and resources as the semester goes along.
Reading Review #3
Works Cited List:
American Association of School Librarians. (2018). AASL Standards Framework for Learners. Retrieved from https://standards.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AASL-Standards-Framework-for-Learners-pamphlet.pdf
Berkowitz, B. & Eisenberg, M. (no date). Learning Inquiry Big6 Style: It all Starts with Asking Great Questions! Retrieved from
The British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association (BCTLA). (January, 2011). The Points of Inquiry: A Framework for Information Literacy and the 21st Century Learner. Retrieved from https://bctla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/the-points-of-inquiry.pdf
Educatorstechnology. September 15, 2015. 10 Educational Web Tools That Support Inquiry-based Learning. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Retrieved from https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/09/10-educational-web-tools-that-support-inquiry-based-learning.html
Eisenberg, M. (Sept. 1, 2010). Mike Eisenberg Vodcast #1—What is Information Literacy?. [video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9UXEDNP1lc
Freedman, J. L., & Robinson, A. (2019). School Librarians Level up. Knowledge Quest, 47(5), 10–15.
Government of British Columbia. (no date). BC's Digital Literacy Framework. Retrieved from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/kindergarten-to-grade-12/teach/teaching-tools/digital-literacy-framework.pdf
Hallis, R. (2018). Leveraging Library Instruction in a Digital Age. In Bhattacharyya, S., & Patnaik, K. R. (Eds.), Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age (pp. 1-23). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2802-9.ch001
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Mora, M.J. (November 16, 2013). Evaluating my Sources with CRAAP [Infographic]. OSC: Maria Jose Mora. http://mjmora.blogspot.com/2013/11/evaluating-sources.html
Page, Andrew G. January 4, 2012. In Head in the Clouds? Ten Free Web 2.0 Tools to Support Faculty Research in Teaching with Technology. Faculty Focus. Retrieved from https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/head-in-the-clouds-ten-free-web-2-0-tools-to-support-faculty-research/
Pow, J. & Li, S. & Fung, A. (2009). Students’ Inquiry Learning in the Web 2.0 Age. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. 292. (pp. 1-10)
Rogers, C. (September 9, 2013). iPad Apps for the Inquiry Cycle [Infographic]. Librarians on the Fly. http://librariansonthefly.blogspot.com/2013/09/apps-for-inquiry-process.html
This is an excellent post that outlines your thinking, learning, reading and research thus far. I appreciate the way in which you have documented your learning, organized your thoughts, and shared your plan for the future. You have an excellent foundation here for your Final Vision Project.
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