Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, Updated Edition - Softcover

American Association Of School Librarians

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838934706 ISBN 13: 9780838934708

Publisher: ALA Editions, 1998

Synopsis

This volume aims to help readers respond proactively and help to lead the way to collaborative learning in schools. The American Library Association has been instrumental in shaping and publishing guidelines for school libraries for 75 years. This book incorporates the standards that should help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with guidelines and principles to help create a dynamic, student-centred programme. The book's underlying concepts feature: helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders; designing authentic learning tasks and assessments; speaking in terms educators understand; defining your role in student learning; and joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes and a variety of print and nonprint resources.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Volkman offers 12 "excursions," or lesson plans, designed to help secondary librarians steer their students through the research process. The first two lessons present basic reference books and include 70 sets of practice questions with answer keys. Excursion 3 introduces the term-paper process, with detailed instructions for a start-to-finish research project as well as sample research notes and finished papers. The remaining assignments build on this knowledge. Each lesson includes instructions, reproducibles, and a bibliography. These practical ideas will adapt easily to a specific grade, curriculum, or reference collection. The sailing metaphor wears a little thin (materials are "cargo," objectives are "destinations"), but this navigational aid will benefit any librarian struggling to stay afloat in a sea of research.-Debbie Johnson, Richardson West Junior High School, TX

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Review

"This outstanding publication gives us a blueprint for moving the emphasis for school libraries from simply providing resources to creating a community of lifelong learners." --Media Matters

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0838934706
• ISBN 13: 9780838934708
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222