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Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia

Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia. Jeremy Worsham Berry College Mindy Doler North Oconee High School Lorene Flanders University of West Georgia Nadine Cohen University of Georgia. What is information literacy? .

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Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia

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  1. Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia Jeremy Worsham Berry College Mindy Doler North Oconee High School Lorene Flanders University of West Georgia Nadine Cohen University of Georgia

  2. What is information literacy? • The ability to find, evaluate and use information effectively for academic and personal purposes.

  3. Info Literacy and Today’s Students • Computer savvy but research illiterate • Research = GOOGLE • Unaware of value/purpose of GALILEO or put off by its complexity

  4. What’s Your Problem, Instruction Librarians? • Lazy? • Teaching more classes every year • Continual faculty outreach • Ineffectual? • Innovative, interactive teaching methods • Do we need to look at the bigger picture?

  5. The Info Literacy: Big Picture Problems • Disarticulated, single-shot teaching sessions • Poor integration of IL into the curriculum • Unaware of info literacy instruction at other grade levels

  6. Collaboration between K-16 librarians to create a IL curriculum that spans all grade levels. What is your solution, instruction librarians?

  7. Roads to K16 Collaboration • No national guidance yet • Scattered, local efforts • Georgia in the vanguard • Early, experimental phase

  8. NWGA CLOC Building a Library Community Jeremy Worsham Inst. & Digital Services Librarian Berry College

  9. Who are We? • Librarians & Media Specialists from • Berry College • Shorter College • Georgia Highlands • Floyd County Schools

  10. How did we begin? • Collaboration between local Higher Education Institutions • Shorter, Berry, & Georgia Highlands • Discuss techniques and methods for IL Instruction • Discovered UGA was beginning K-16 efforts

  11. How did we begin? (cont.) • Contacted Floyd County Schools Director of Technology • Explained our intentions • Gauged interest in participation • Addressed meeting of Floyd County Media Specialists • Recruited Volunteers

  12. Goals • Gain better understanding of how IL is taught in local schools • Share ideas on how to teach IL skills • Build a contact network to inform each other of local resources

  13. Plans for the Future • Involve other local Institutions • Coosa Valley Technical College • Rome City Schools • Darlington School • Sara Hightower Public Library • Surrounding Counties • Bartow, Chattooga, Gordon, Polk

  14. Plans for the Future (cont.) • Develop Workshops • For PLU Credit • Certified through NWGA RESAOR • Certified through local Departments of Education • Shadowing • Coordinating IL Instruction between local schools through site visits and collaboration through the year

  15. Shadowing • IL Concept Transition • Mirror with Collaboration between Librarians & Media Specialists

  16. CLOC: Community Librarians Outreach & Collaboration Athens Area K-16 librarians working together to promote information literacy. Mindy Doler Media Specialist North Oconee High School Oconee County Public Schools

  17. Who we are… • Librarians from the University of Georgia, Athens Technical College, Gainesville College and Piedmont College • Librarians from Athens-Clarke Regional Library system • Media Specialists from Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and Oglethorpe county public and private schools

  18. How did we begin? • Recognized the problem • Contacted local high school media specialists • Contacted colleagues

  19. How do YOU find information? • Teach the students • Teach the teachers • Take the skills into the REAL world

  20. What have we done? • Initial brainstorming • Gathered information, people and resources • Created website • http://www.libs.uga.edu/cloc/index.html

  21. Where are we coming from? • Elementary schools (K-5) • Middle schools (6-8) • High schools (9-12) • College level (13-16)

  22. Learn from each other! • Year long series of workshops… with Professional Learning Unit available. • Be 18 again: Live the UGA freshman experience • Fighting Apathy: Making IL relevant in High School • Building from the Ground Up: Creating a solid foundation for IL in the middle and elementary school levels • Pimp my Standards: Transform our Draft Standards into a K-16 Information Literacy Matrix

  23. Next? • Continue to reach out to schools and librarians in our area • Contact UGA College of Education • What can your library/media center do for you? • Integrate IL into the teacher education program

  24. What’s the key? ….Keep it SIMPLE!! • For the students • For the instructors • For us!

  25. Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia What have we done so far? What difference has it made? Where do we go from here?

  26. What have we done so far? • Organizing and meeting • Identifying the challenges • Developing a common understanding of issues from our different perspectives

  27. What difference has it made? • Raising awareness of common goals • Seeking opportunities for collaboration • Collaboration = Solutions!

  28. Opportunities for Collaboration: • Training and raising teachers’ awareness • Working with teacher preparation programs • Training and raising parents’ awareness • Marketing availability of library resources and services • Marketing GALILEO

  29. Where do we go from here? • Developing a sequenced K-16 IL curriculum based on GPS • Marketing GALILEO to students, parents and the general public

  30. Goal 1 = A More Educated

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