By redefining the school librarian as an “Information Specialist” in terms familiar to advocates of the American Association of School Librarians’ Information Power, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools lured Janet Murray away from the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools to Kinnick High School in Yokosuka, Japan. An early enthusiast for electronic access to information, Janet was one of the co-founders of K12Net, a global collection of bulletin board systems for educators.

Janet Murray has been using the Big6 Skills to help middle and high school students (and their teachers) become “information literate” since she created an online matrix and web page of activities linking the Big6 to national information literacy standards in 1999. Adding the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) to the matrix in 2002, she began to more deeply explore each of the Big6 Skills as they relate to standards in a series of articles for the Big6 eNewsletter followed by the Linworth publication Achieving Educational Standards Using the Big6™ published in March, 2008.

Her presentations and workshops demonstrate the correlations between AASL standards, NETS and national academic content standards as well as the ICT Literacy skills defined and tested by ETS. Library media specialists who collaborate with classroom teachers to target standards in the context of curriculum-based research projects help their students acquire information processing skills that contribute to lifelong learning.

Workshops

Wednesday, February 18    1:00 - 4:00  pm

Navigating Educational Standards with Technology and the Big6