THREE+-+Grooming+Curators

= Grooming Information Curators and Literacies = Brought to you by RADCAB

Getting information off the internet is like drinking from a fire hydrant hose. A growing ocean of facts, opinions and ideas in all formats introduces students to more information than previously conveyed by teachers and textbooks. Not all information is equal. With 77% of students taking the ICT test not being able to identify credible, reliable sources, it is mission critical for all citizens to be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to use curation literacies, tools and processes to locate, verify, capture, and annotate while effectively using and socializing information to communicate with others. Curation requires the ability to organize, categorize, tag and know how to make the content available to others while managing it for effective communication. “Quality” curation takes higher level thinking skills. Just like a museum curator cannot include every piece of art created this has criteria for filtering most valuable, an information curator continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the BEST and most RELEVANT content on a specific issue. Let's prepare our students and ourselves to be high-yielding, credible meaning-makers with well-rehearsed skills and tools for separating "art" from junk online.

**Driving Questions**

 * How are critical thinking skills developed through research?
 * What is difference between topical and inquiry research?
 * What are the competencies for core information literacy questions in my school?
 * How many sources are expected for inquiry projects?
 * How confidence and competent are student RADCAB skills?
 * What increases efficient searches?
 * How copyright savvy are teachers and students?
 * What tools and processes are used for citations?
 * How do we organize ourselves into Learning Circles and Study Groups?

Agenda Topics
Opening Process: Creating Learning Circles Topic: Creating Study Groups Process: Jigsaw Learning for TechnologyConnections, Collaborative/Coaching, and Inquiry/Questioning Topic: Coaching Student Performance Tasks for H.E.A.T. Process: Triad Coaching BEFORE / AFTER Units of Inquiry Topic: Inspiring Tech Tools a la Inquiry Processes Process: Lab 2 - What's Hot? What's Not? Topic: Info-Whelm (video seen before by TL but bringing idea back into the room) Topic: Developing Critical Thinking Through Research Skills Process: Student Survey Polling of RADCAB Skills Topic: Overview of ICT Findings Compared to Survey Polling Results Topic: Efficient Searches - It's all in the Question AND Search Strategies! Topic: Shifting from Topical to Inquiry-based Learning ~ Keep Eye On ** TYPES of Communication ** Process: Trial and Error Information Searches Topic: Overview of RADCAB Process: Jigsaw Groups for Learning R - A - D - C- A - B Process: Jigsaw Groups "Present" RADCAB a la Imagination Topic: Stepping Up Citation and Copyright Savvy Skills ~ "Tagging" EVERY Student Digital Media Process: Organizing **Pecha Kuchas** Closing

Group Learning Tools and Links

 * InfoWhelm YouTube Video
 * RadCab ~ A vehicle for Information Fluency
 * Take the Kermit Challenge a la Digital Investigator
 * BibMe ~ Citation Tool
 * Wizard Tools for INFO Fluency
 * Learning Lab One - Hot or NOT? - Which idea(s) provides most the RIGOROUS workout for the brain with a value-added role for transforming use of technology tools and . . . why?