Secretary Spellings said, “The College Board’s recently released SAT test scores for the class of 2007 reaffirm the need for greater accountability and increased rigor in our nation’s high schools in order to prepare students for college and the workforce.” More: continued here
Secretary Spellings joined Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Lisa Murkowski to highlight strides made by Alaska’s schools and students under the No Child Left Behind Act during school visits in rural Alaska. More: continued here
Secretary Spellings announced the award of more than $27 million in grants to 91 school districts in 32 states to help them enhance and fortify their readiness and emergency response management plans. More: continued here
1. I am pleased to say that the Physics Grad Society (PGS) sponsored a session for me with the new grad student class at Cornell as part of the orientation program. Thirty grad students attended–a mixture of new grad students and “older” grad students. I hope that this session will become a permanent part of [...]
Via Jill Walker Rettberg at http://jilltxt.net/ I came across a blog which evaluates corporate blogs: from a marketing perspective, but there is a good deal of overlap with the way you would evaluate it as a business source. One of the assignments that Bill Johnston and I used to use at Strathclyde was to evaluate [...]
Information Literacy in the Digitial AgeInterventions de:* Irvin R. Katz, Senior Research Scientist for the Educational Testing Service* George Lorenzo, President and CEO of Lorenzo Associates, Inc.* Moses Wolfenstein, Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison* Session convener: Charles D. Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central FloridaVia [...]
Student Perspective Video (University of Central Florida)Des étudiants interviewent d’autres étudiants à propos de ce qu’ils savent ou ne savent pas de la “maîtrise de l’information”.Via EducauseConnect (Source: pintiniblog) More: continued here
Earlier this week I talked about playing Madden Football and information literacy. Here are some gameplay examples to the outcomes that I mapped out: 1.1.c. Explores general information sources to increase familiarity with the topicUsing the in-game tutorial helps introduce the gameplay; Reading reviews online to get an understanding of the gameplay and features1.1.f. Recognizes [...]
One View of the Components of Information Literacy{{Fact|date=February 2007}} – Capitalization and Grammar. ↠Older revision Revision as of 17:20, 28 August 2007 Line 38: Line 38: ===One View of the Components of Information Literacy{{Fact|date=February 2007}} === ===One View of the Components of Information Literacy{{Fact|date=February 2007}} === -Based on the Big6 by Mike Eisenberg and [...]
Another conception of information literacy – – Capitalization. ↠Older revision Revision as of 17:22, 28 August 2007 Line 58: Line 58: This conception, used primarily in the library and information studies field, and rooted in the concepts of library instruction and bibliographic instruction, is the ability “to recognize when information is needed and have [...]