CTAP 201- Activity 1a
Post a brief assessment of the standards you read in Lesson 1. How can the Internet help you accomplish these standards?
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American Library Association (ALA) - Info Lit Standards
The link to ACRL on CTAP9 Online is bad. Please use the link below instead.
American Library Association (ALA) - Info Lit Standards
posted by Lainie McGann at 10:05 AM
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The standards are very general and it states in the beginning that they should be modified for your specific population. Has that been done?
Some of the ways the internet can help use achieve these standards are:
1. gives students another means to research a topic
2. we are able to show several different search engines to gather data
3. the student can compare information found on the internet and what they have read in their textbook
4. the student uses a blog or email to share information with others
I believe if your school strongly supports technology, teachers are able to implement technology standards into their everyday lessons. I am at a school, where I am able to have a variety of resources at hand, and teach my students the standards for third grade and above. Some ways the Internet can help teachers teach the standards are by using them as a reinforcement tool where students can practice other methods of learning a skill. Teachers are able to use the Internet to add and enhance their lesson, and provide other resources for students. Students are able to email, use word processing programs, access websites that will help them in many subjects, research projects, and communicating with other people. Students will also learn how to determine the creditability of a website, and if a website is beneficial to use. The Internet is a great resource with endless source of information, so it is very important for students to understand how to use the internet.
The standards focus a great deal not only on knowledge of how to use the Internet, but the why and responsibility that comes along with using it. I think it is really important to teach this and stress its importance to our students as they begin to explore. I believe the Internet itself is a valuable tool in demonstrating to students how to critically evaluate websites and information accessed on the web, how to compare this to information found in text books and to continue to stress that although the Internet is a fantastic tool, it is not the end-all, and there is as much mis-information as there is good information.
Though the Internet can be a very valuable source of information, students (and teachers) need to keep in mind, that it is not the “absolute” of information. Websites should be checked for their validity and the currency of the information that it provides. With that said, Internet can prove to be a good learning tool for the classroom. For instance, as a math teacher, I am always looking for ways to help student visualize the abstractness of algebra and geometry. With the help of websites such as themathforum.com, I have found interactive sites for students to manipulate graphs and shapes to truly understand their properties.
In addition, I am able to email homework assignments to students who are out sick or away on vacation. I can also email helpful websites to students who might need extra help while at home.
The standards for the information literate student give great guidelines as to what we can try to hold the students accountable for within their classroom experiences. However, the independent learner standard caused me to pause because I feel that the students often seek out the first piece of information available without verifying its authenticity or that of the source.
There are several ways that the internet can help our students achieve these standards. These ways include comparison of several informational sources (text vs. internet); sharing information through blogs/email; and comparison of information found on various search engines.
The standards for information literacy give a very detailed picture of what a well-rounded, informed student is capable of. On many levels I felt the standards overlap with other standards we are already teaching, such as the ELA standards. However, they also cover a wide scope of ethics, good research practices, critical thinking, and synthesis. If our students achieve even of these standards I would feel we had succeeded.
The internet can help us immensely in accomplishing these standards. First, it provides a broad base of knowledge and information, much of it free, that can be accessed by our students. Because much of it is not regulated, it also provides an excellent teaching opportunity for demonstrating the proper way to evaluate the integrity of sources, specifically addressing information literacy standard 3, performance indicator 2. The internet also applies specifically to standard 2, performance indicator 3, in which students are to retrieve information from a variety of sources, including online.
The standards’ main focus is how to use the internet, but also includes the important ideas of why one should use the internet as well using it correctly and responsibly. It is extremely important that students understand the realities of the internet and how to use it responsibly; in the classroom, it is crucial for the teacher to consistently monitor how and when the students are using the internet. The internet can be a very valuable tool, when used correctly. In this day in age, we as educators (and parents) need to stress to students that not everything on the web is 100% accurate (if at all), this is why it is stressed to check the accountability of each source/website and also refer to other sources such as text. Many teachers, including myself, use this tool to enhance their lessons and reach all students through different mediums.
How can the Internet help you accomplish these standards?
I believe these standards could be covered using library techniques, but one could also cover them using the Internet. Since the Internet is becoming one of the fastest and easiest ways to get information we as teachers need to teach kids how to find and use information from the Internet as well as libraries.
Students can achieve information literacy competency through the Internet by learning how to find scholarly websites, how to correctly and efficiently search for topics, and how to gather information found.
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