An interesting week. I had to leave for Trail earlier than I had thought so did not meet my “required number of posts”. So all is probably not well in grade land but based on the assessment criteria this is something deserved. Not only that but I probably will be further behind in the next module. Last time I do anything like this over a summer. However, the module did make me wonder about Information Fluency and its role in curriculum.
I found the self paced feature of this module and the way it was laid out enjoyable. I wonder how something like the Moodle lesson module might work for creating a self paced module for my students. The biggest thing I came away from this module was thinking about how this would be taught? Who will actually take care of teaching this our librarian, tech instructors, each teacher. All of us?
I have quoted one of my forum posts below.
“I think this needs to be taught schoolwide as Martha said “anyone who teaches how to research should include information fluency in their lesson plan”. This is where teaching Information fluency naturally fits. So although I think it needs to be taught by the individual teacher I think, at our school, this first needs to be handled at the curriculum/professional development level.
So to implement this at SSIS and avoid the situation … [where everyone agrees it should be done but it never gets done] we need :
- to look at the information fluency skills and decide where they fit within the different grade levels.
- to embed these skills within the curriculum(s) as part of the research process.
- to conduct PD sessions to help teachers understand Information Fluency.
- to assess effectiveness of implementation.”
So I still wonder how other K-12 schools handle this and if it is formally integrated within the curriculum and how this will work at our school?
