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Resources for Learning about Info Lit and 21st Century Skills
Here's a new Journal of Information Literacy (out of UK) article on [|Integrating information literacy as a habit of learning]
 * [[image:new.jpg width="28" height="23"]]MUST HAVE** book for all media specialists - **[|Stds for the 21st Century Learner in Action]** by AASL

[|Skyline High School - 21st Century School Library website] - this is a high school library website that embraces the 21st century literacy skills- great links for research and reading and all kinds of other things [|Role of Library Media Specialist in 21st Century Learning] [|NWREL articles] - The School Library in the 21st Century - some excellent articles on libraries transforming for 21st century literacy Tools for the Classroom [|Envisioning School Libraries in the 21st Century] [|Empowering Learners AASL] [|Top 10 Necessities for Education Reform] [|All Together Now] blog – a Web 2.0 "course" for school librarians from Summer 2008 - all links are still good - this is a great starting place for newbies to Web 2.0 tools [|School Library Journal's 10 Best Digital Resources] [|Introduction to Information Literacy in the K12 Classroom/Chapter 5] [|Student Inquiry in the Research Process] [|Powerful Libraries make Powerful Learners: the Illinois Study] [|Building online info literacy Instruction] - [|Web English Teacher] - [|Research article on teaching strategies – objectivist and constructivist models for info literacyinstruction] – from AASL [|Atomic Learning] - search for lessons by state or ISTE NETS-S standards K - 12 (This is a subscriber site, but does have no charge samples available on many topics. Mac & PC) [|How to Develop an Inquiry-based Project] [|Resources for School Librarians] [|Dewey Decimal System Powerpoints] [|Collaborative Blogging as a Means to Develop Elementary Expository Writing Skills]


 * NEW **: From NECC2009 - Look at/listen to this presentation on [|ICT and change], especially the info lit slide!

WEBSITE EVALUATION
[|Springfield High School: A Webquest for evaluating websites] [|RADCAB (the Bentley School)] [|ICYouSee -T is for thinking]- A guide to critical thinking about what you see on the web [|Evaluating Web Pages]- Techniques to apply & questions to ask [|Evaluation Criteria]

MEDIA LITERACY
[|Definitions of media literacy] [|Center for Media Literacy] [|Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet.] Kathy Schrock

=General Info on Learning in the 21st Century= Designing with Forever in Mind