What information am I looking for?
- Learners identify key concepts in a research question
- Learners create effective and efficient search queries
- Translate a natural language question into a search query
- Develop and apply vocabulary building strategies to effectively conduct a digital information search
- Effectively act on informed decisions to revise their search queries based on search results/feedback
Where will I find the information?
- Learners understand the organization of digital information
- Learners effectively and efficiently select digital collections based on their characteristics
- Select visible Web collections (and sub-collections) based on their characteristics
- Select invisible Web collections (and sub-collections) based on their characteristics
- Select other digital collections (and sub-collections) based on their characteristics
How will I get there?
- Learners select digital search tools based on their effectiveness and efficiency
- Select features of a variety of digital tools based on the probability of effectiveness and efficiency
- Learners select appropriate search strategies to effectively and efficiently locate reliable digital information related to their academic learning goal(s)
- Navigate hyperlink, i.e. browsing strategies
- Use subject directory strategies
- Use search engine strategies
- Learners apply appropriate search strategies in order to efficiently locate reliable digital information related to their academic learning goal(s)
- Navigate hyperlink, i.e. browsing strategies
- Use a directory (subject index)
- Use a search engine
How good is the information?
- Learners evaluate the quality of a search result to determine its usefulness in the search process
- Determine whether or not the digital information addresses the natural language question
- Decide whether or not the digital information suggests revisions to search queries (revision decision)
- Learners evaluate the quality of a search result to determine the reliability of its content
- Investigate internal content reliability
- Investigate external validation of information
- Learners evaluate the quality of a search result to determine the reliability of its source
- Investigate author/publisher reliability
- Investigate external validation of author/publisher
How will I ethically use the information?
- Learners ethically use digital information
- Learners decide whether or not to integrate digital information related to a specific information task
- Learners give credit to the source and/or author for the selected digital information
Overall competencies (Applicable in all phases of the digital information fluency process):
- Learners acquire the dispositions necessary for successful digital information fluency:
- Demonstrate confidence in finding a solution when engaged in the digital information fluency process
- Demonstrate persistence to continually engage in the digital information fluency process
- Demonstrate focus to avoid distractions when engaged in the digital information fluency process
- Demonstrate open-mindedness to a variety of strategies and tools when engaged in the digital information fluency process
- Demonstrate curiosity for exploring ideas when engaged in the digital information fluency process
- Learners acquire self-regulation necessary for successful digital information fluency:
- Demonstrate meta-cognitive thinking to adjust their strategies and tools when engaged in the digital information fluency process
- Demonstrate attitude of adaptability to respond to inconclusive or ineffective results when engaged in the digital information fluency process
http://21cif.imsa.edu
21st Century Information Fluency Project, Illinois Math and Science Academy |
