Today our classes focused on searching in Infocentre using keyword, subject, author and title. We practiced the 1-2-3 method to get to our catalog online, from the school website, then found the most relevant and least relevant results we could in each of the 4 basic search options. We’re focusing on what it means to be an “information critic,” and the difference between finding the most results and the best results, which is a skill they will build on for the rest of their lives.
When we reviewed what we did after our “freeword” searching, one student summed up what we learned today as: “We learned that searching is fun.” That’s a success, and the right place to start. I don’t want students to be intimidated by the process, and I want them to have fun with it while learning to be critical consumers of information, from our catalog to the internet.
We used the computer lab and the smartboard to do this, but I also wrote on a good ol’ fashioned whiteboard, as well, and then put it in the library.
Then, during checkout time after the keyword lesson, students filled in book recommendations in the “recommendation station.”
Mac and I went over some Buckaroo book award nominees for the 2/3 grade lesson.
Then, a few minutes of reading, and off they went…
And I got in my “library mobile” to head to Moran library for the afternoon.
