Internet Power Search Skills for Teachers and Students

1. Internet Power Search Skills for Teachers and Students Presented to the Illinois Education & Technology Conference November 2005

2. Agenda • Why Should I Care? • What is Information Fluency? • What is the 21st Century Information Fluency Project? • Tools & Resources

3. Challenges to K-12 educators in a digital age • Vastness of Digital Resources • Quantity over Quality • Digital Immigrants teaching Digital Natives • Both groups struggle to find information they need and to evaluate its worth Ability to Evaluate Information Source Stored .03% 7.75% 92.22% "How Much Information? 2003”, ([cited 30 July 2004]); available from World Wide Web @ http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary

4. Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. • DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; • having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; • and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment.

5. 21st Century Information Fluency Project • The goal of this program is to build the capacity of librarians, educators and students in Illinois to • Locate • Evaluate • Ethically use digital information resources • Funded by a Grant from the US Department of Education, Funds for the Improvement of Education • Envisioned as a 3-5 year project to work with 1200 Middle and High Schools in Illinois. We are now in our 4th year • Create a National Model

6. What is the 21st Century Information Fluency Project? Try Googling Information Fluency http://www.google.com/ Information Fluency

7. Wizard Tools http://21cif.imsa.edu/

8. What’s Coming? • DIF Investigator Package • Help bridge the gap between sharing concepts with Teachers and Librarians and application in the classroom • Looks like help to a very busy teacher • Nine hours of Instruction with exercises, worksheets, assessment and a Teachers Guide • Assessment • More Information on Importance of DIF

9. Assessment • Micro Modules • DIF Assessment Questions • Internet Basic Assessment

10. Searching Skills Before and After the Project Intervention Searching Skills Before and After Source: Minooka Junior High School 7th Grade Language Arts students (n = 45) 5 4.2 4 3.7 3.4 3.0 Scale: 1=Poor 5=Excellent Self-Rating 3 2 1 Class 1 Class 2 Class 1 Class 2 Before After 19% average improvement for both classes

11. 100 100 67% 80 60% 80 53% 60 60 42% percentage correct percentage correct 40 40 20 20 0.0 0.0 PRE_TOTAL POST_TOTAL PRE_TOTAL POST_TOTAL Searching Skills Before and After Intervention Internet Basics Performance Assessment Glen Crest Middle School (n = 115) Illinois Teachers (n = 28) 20% average student improvement 11% average teacher improvement

12. How we can help: • Free Workshops and Webinars • Building Digital Information Fluency Skills into Schools (full day) • Power Searching (one hour, half day, full day) • Free Courses • 6 week Survey Course • 12 week Lab Course (3 graduate credits) • Free Curriculum and Tools • DIF Investigator, MicroModules, Search Challenges • Assessment • Lesson Plan Repository • Tools: Search Wizard, Evaluation Wizard, Citation Wizard

13. Contact Us! • URL http://21cif.imsa.edu • General info 21cif@imsa.edu • Dan Balzer dbalzer@imsa.edu • Carl Heine heine@imsa.edu • Bob Houston rhouston@imsa.edu • Dennis O’Connor doconnor@imsa.edu • Gautam Saha gsaha@imsa.edu • It’s all free – your tax dollars at work for you!

14. Offline Talk

37. Main Portal: http://21cif.imsa.edu/ • Featured Items • Digital Information Fluency Model • Left Side Drop Down Menu • Login ONLY required to update • Everything (that is ready) is available to you to read, download etc.