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Teacher/Librarian Role: acts as scriptwriter to structure thinking
Learner: follows the script (potential for all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy)
Software: structures the sequence and form (handout, worksheet, tutorial)
Assessment: sometimes part of the design
| Example | Purpose | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Expedient
(yet complex)
sequential
instructions for a
procrastinating student
Calendars an information literacy plan for the student, offering advice pages at each step |
Web page text with illustrative (links, images) examples.
Open source database MySQL, PHP, Web |
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| Digital Toolbox: Gathering Images | Tutorial shows what images to use and where to find them. | Text definition with pictures and annotated links on a Web page. |
| Strategies
for Specific Information Use Phases
|
Handout to build a teacher's conceptual understanding of a research-based, progressive thinking process, with examples of its application. | Formatted
Adobe Acrobat
sequential chart.
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| Evaluative Strategies for K-12 Students | Handout to build a student's conceptual understanding of a research-based, progressive thinking process, with extensive examples of its application. | Formatted
Adobe Acrobat
bulleted lists in sequence.
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| Information Evaluation Decision Guide | Worksheet on information literacy strategies, with room for written responses to assess understanding | Formatted
Adobe Acrobat
sequential prompts or questions with space for handwritten answers.
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| Interactive introduction to research skills tutorial "NOT intended to replace meetings with your instructor or librarians." Worksheets, animations, quizzes. | Sequence of Web pages with plug-ins Flash, Acrobat, Shockwave animations, JavaScript quizzes. Content can be modified for your use under a Creative Commons License (some rights reserved). | |
| Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need (click on) What Kind of News Do I Need? | Handout builds understanding of search strategies, while a tutorial models one cluster of search strategies for a category of information (news). | "Chunked" chart of sequenced strategies on a single Web page with Flash Viewlet (Qarbon) example of use. |
| Virtual Training Suite | Tutorial builds subject expertise by combining pathfinders, a sequence of increasingly complex IT skills, examples and practice exercises. | Common-template suite of sequential Web pages, with links collector for student. |
| Daedalus and Icarus | Uses a software "collector" to script a critical thinking process and product. | Trackstar |
| Bone From a Dry Sea | Uses a quiz-making program to script a critical thinking process. | Hot Potatoes |
Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.