INFORMATION LITERACY: Accessing Information

During the Accessing Information stage, students decide on the resources that will best meet their information need, locate the materials, and begin to access the information.
 
  Have you taught your students how to...
... identify potential resources? RTF  PDF
... locate resources using the OPAC (on-line public access catalogue)?
... conduct effective Internet searches?  more...
... refine the search using full and implied Boolean logic?
... bookmark relevant sites?
... evaluate the relevancy of online resources?   more...
... use keywords to narrow or expand the search?  link...
... use a table of contents and an index to access information?
... skim, scan and read for information? more...
... access magazine and newspaper databases?
... access human resources through interviews, surveys, and online experts?
... interpret visual information from charts, graphs and pictures?

Reflective Practitioner

Reflect: With your professional learning community, review the information literacy skills required to access information.
Celebrate: Which skills have students mastered?
Act: Identify one skill that requires practise and with your professional learning community integrate its instruction into curriculum.
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