Koechlin, Carol

A comprehensive overview on information literacy skills presented in a flip-book format, and provides step-by-step approaches to obtain relevant data, increase comprehension, and more.

Offers teachers advice on how they can empower students to become critical thinkers and users of information, with more than eighty proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning.

Contains over fifty activities designed to help students build their reading, writing, and research skills, grouped in the categories of evaluating, sorting, analyzing and synthesizing, and working with information.

Provides strategies for teaching information literacy and assesses how well students can practice what they learn.

A guide to transforming school libraries and computer labs into dynamic places with both physical and virtual resources, including planning rubrics, worksheets, interview questions, charts, and other tools to help administrators and educators make the concept of a learning commons a reality in their schools.