An amazing resource! Janet Murray’s “Achieving Educational Standards Using the Big6″

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Big6, Education, Elementary Schools, Information Literacy, Secondary Schools, Technology by Mike Eisenberg

Related to the previous post, I personally relied on many different resources in helping the Montana standards writing effort. Barbara Jansen’s new book “Big6 in Middle School” and Laura Robinson’s and my “Super3″ were very helpful.

BUT – Janet Murray’s new book on standards was far and away the most useful! First, it’s a compilation of the very latest information, technology, and content standards. Second, Janet does the heavy lifting by creating correlations and connections among the various standards and most importantly, to the Big6. Janet does this in many different ways, but the one I find most useful is Figure 3.2 – page 25 – the Big6 aligned with AASL, NETS, and ICT Literacy Standards.

So, if you are going to buy just one new professional book this year – Janet’s is it! Here’s a link to the book on the Linworth site – http://store.linworth.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=407

Mike

p.s. – for a preview, check out Janet’s article in the December 2007 Big6 eNewsletter -

http://www.big6.com/showenewsarticle.php?id=624

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Information Literacy and Technology Standards

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Education, Information Literacy, Technology by Mike Eisenberg

I spent the weekend working with a statewide group on standards. There are 2 sets of standards – (1) library/information literacy and (2) technology, and the group broke into subgroups for each.

The Big6 was a baseline framework for the standards work. So were the new AASL standards – http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf

and the ISTE – NETS standards – http://www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/students/pdf/NETS_for_Students_2007.pdf

In my opinion, the Montana results are quite impressive and will be available to the public within a few months. In terms of a preview -

- the technology standards include problem solving and decision-making, collaboration and communication, and creativity and innovation.

- the library/information literacy include the Big6 stages (in 3 standards consistent with the Super3), legal and ethical use, and literature/creative works.

The Montana folks went on to develop benchmarks at grades 4, 8, and 12 and also performance descriptors.

We will post a link to the Montana work when it is available.

– Mike

March 29, 2009

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