2007-08 Project Details and Participant Expectations

Project Goals

The Metronet Information Literacy Project (MILP) goals are:

Improve the ability of participating 10^th graders to conduct research by teaching them a process which involves the following five steps:
- Develop a Question
- Gather and Evaluate information
- Conclude (formulate a conclusion)
- Communicate information and conclusion
- Evaluate process and product
Increase students’ understanding of the legal and ethical issues related to information use including plagiarism, copyright, and the responsible use of technology.
Foster greater library media specialist-teacher collaboration and teamwork and promote the implementation of the MEMO/MLA “Recommended Standards for Information and Technology Literacy.”
Demonstrate and stimulate increased levels of interlibrary cooperation among the types of libraries participating in this project: school library media centers, public libraries, and academic libraries.

Teacher Participant Goals:

All participants will develop and refine their abilities to teach the following:

The Research Process
Improve the ability of students and teachers to conduct effective research by using a process that includes the following 5 steps:

Question
Gather and Evaluate
Conclude
Communicate
Evaluate

Use Reliable Resources
All participants will identify and use available, reliable resources whenever possible. This includes but is not limited to, electronic, human, and print. Collaboration will be modeled at all levels.

Responsible Use of Information and Technology
Promote understanding and practice responsible use of information and technology. Advise and assist teachers in the creation of plagiarism-proof assignments. Help all involved to approach ethical use in the spirit of good citizenship rather than compliance.

Teacher Participant Expectations:

Teachers accepted into the Information Literacy Project will receive use of a wireless laptop computer and LCD Projector.

All participants will:

    *Attend two day orientation session to be held on:
          Wednesday, September 12, 3-7 pm
           Saturday, September 15, 9-3 pm

    *Attend 8 monthly meetings/workshops to be held the second Wednesday of
     September, October, November, January, February, March, April and May.

    *Document achievement of personal/professional goals by developing skills
   and creating/teaching lessons and units related to the 3 Rs(see above) and
   posting regularly to a project blog.

    * Complete project evaluations and student pre/posttests.

Teachers may keep the hardware and software package as long as they continue to meet the participant expectations. Failure to meet requirements will result in forfeiture of project equipment.