Most high school students employ the basic search strategy of keyword searching that most search engines use. However, students get frustrated and end up surfing from one site to another or abandoning their search in frustration. In this article, the author discusses several strategies that can be used by students to understand the nature of…

Discussion of the tension between students and teachers regarding understanding in information tasks focuses on the role the teacher-librarian can take to help boost student achievement and to help teachers create information tasks. Topics include curriculum goals; integrating information literacy skills; facets of understanding; and the…

Focuses on the Big6 perspective of synthesis--organizing information from multiple sources and presenting the result. Highlights several ways to organize information and gives examples of exercises that use these two aspects of synthesis. Discusses the role of technology in synthesis and the integration of teaching software for synthesis. (AEF)

Explains IM-PACT (Instructional Model-Purpose, Audience, Content, Technique), a framework for systematic lesson design in an information literacy context. Includes an example of IM-PACT's application to a high school-level information skills lesson plan, collaboratively designed by the teacher-librarian and English teacher. (LRW)

Describes the FLIP IT framework for developing collaborative resource-based activities by outlining the interrelationships of the specific skills and information that will be needed. Discusses the role of teachers and librarians in the process and provides a sample worksheet. (LRW)

Discussion of the new information-literacy standards authored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focuses on a new information process model, "Pathways to Knowledge: Follett's Information Skills Model." Topics include the role of…

Describes "FLIP IT," a process developed to help a seventh-grade class succeed at information problem solving by analyzing and defining the research process. Explains the mnemonic, FLIP IT, as focusing on the topic, locating appropriate resources, investigating and implementing the information, and producing results while using intelligent…

Discussion of the development of information literacy focuses on a study in New Zealand elementary schools that examined teachers' understanding of information skills; teachers' understanding of resource-based learning; the role of the library; a model of information problem solving; students' experiences; conflicting information; and reading and…

Describes one district's collaborative approaches to literacy development for all students. Highlights include: author visits; reading incentive programs; projects using creative expressions of information; literacy collaboration in high school; development, by teacher-librarians, teachers, and administrators, of a guide to integrated information…