Elevarbeten-Plan
för infokompetens
Kurser
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Elevarbeten-Plan
för infokompetens
Kurser
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I am a Swedish teacher
working at the high school/upper secondary level with students 16-19
years of age. My subjects are civics, social issues and law issues. For the
past ten years I have been teaching in "English Class" meaning that I have taught civics in English.
For the moment I only teach in Swedish.
My main interest is to help
students to become more competent in information literacy.
I think that this competence is very
important in any subject so I have during the past ten years systematically tried to increase
the competence of my students to find information in an efficient way using suitable search strategies
and to value their information with "critical eyes."
I have cooperated very much with
our school librarian and other teachers. I think that the library is extremely important
in working. with this I also think it is
important to work systematically over longer periods.
I have been working with
in-service training of teachers and librarians on information-
seeking (web catalogues, search engines…), critical review of sources and how
to work
with these matters together with students from a pedagogical point of view.
At my previous school "Celsiusskolan we adopted a plan for information
literacy of
our students based on different objectives and principles. We evaluate to what
degree our
students reach these objectives:
General objectives and principles
When the students of "Celsiusskolan" leave they shall be professional
in
information literacy. They shall be able to work with all the stages
of the information
process - how to formulate a problem, gather information, structure and critically evaluate
your information.
To reach this objective the education has to be integrated from a holistic perspective.
Information literacy is being strengthened during the course of
the education in a
systematic way where different perspectives are being deepened. There will
also be
a close cooperation between different subjects as well as between teachers and
librarians.
Information literacy is an integrated part of the education."
The students shall have
an overview of different search techniques and an understanding of how important
it is to formulate a problem in a correct way.
In a qualified way be able to use the library catalogue and find the media they
are looking for in
the library.
Be able to use a Swedish referenxe book i.e the national encyclopedia as well
as a British i.e
Britannica online.
Know the difference between web catalogues and search engines and know how to
use them.
Be competent to use at least one data base on articles.
Have a general idea of the importance of critically evaluating sources and be
able to write
a list of sources in a correct way.
Students
shall
Be able to on a basic level do a critical evaluation of sources from the point
of view of criteria
like authority, credibility and objectivity.
Have a very good capacity to use some web catalogues, search engines, data bases
referring to
subject or articles.
Be able to write notes
have a basic knowledge of
rights oforiginators
Students shall
Be able to make a thorough critical evaluation of sources and also be able to
compare
different sources.
Be able to write a log where
they reflect on different search strategies.
Have an ability to reflect on ethic issues concerning internet.
Be able to understand the connection between how problems are formulated and
different
ways of finding information.
I´m working on creating
a "bank" with well written student reports where focus is on search
strategies and criticism of sources. I can so far just publish three reports,
but there will be more.
International conflicts.
"Venezuela". Have a close look at "criticism of
sources" and
"search strategy".
Project application. "Support to women being assaulted
in Bangla Desh." Read preferably the last part
"web evaluation."
Project on "terrorism in South Africa and Zimbabwe
- similarities and differences."
"Analysis" and "Detailed evaluation of two sources" are interesting.
These three reports at high school level I consider to be generally well written.
Göran Brolund
Mail: goran.brolund@fyrisskolan.uppsala.se
Address:
Källstigen 3, 757 56 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: 4618425013 (home), 0737-383029 (cell phone)