Media Literacy

The Pinellas County Schools' Student Expectations describe the essential content knowledge, reasoning, performance or skill that each student should know and be able to do at the K through 12 grade levels in multiple subject areas.

•     http://sage.pinellas.k12.fl.us/librarymedia.htm --- Click on this link to find the grade level expectations.

National Information Literacy Standards

   Category A: Information Literacy

Standard 1: The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and effectively.

Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

Standard 3: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.

   Category B: Independent Learning

Standard 4: The student who is information literate and pursues information related to personal interest.

Standard 5: The student who is information literate and appreciates and enjoys literature and other creative expressions of information.

Standard 6: The student who is information literate and strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.

   Category C: Social Responsibility

Standard 7: The student who is information literate and recognizes the importance of information to a democratic society.

Standard 8: The student who is information literate and practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Standard 9: The student who is information literate and participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

Media Story - literacy lessons Summary

Welcome ... When I create my lessons for the students.. I want them to be fun and entertaining.. but yet I always have an underlying objective to get across. The thing I love to do is take any childrens book.. and find the content objectives that can be demonstrated. I peruse the grade level pacing calendars to figure out what the teacher is doing in her world/or classroom and then tie my lessons in to that reading, math or science  strategy being worked on. .. In developing my yearly plans or ideas.. I strive to gear myself towards an area of the curriculum.. that relates to the schools annual goals.. ie.  science, math.. All my lessons will incorporate at least one state standard in that area.  I have created a FileMaker Pro database for all my lesson plans. This enables me to easily cross match the standards and objectives, delineate my steps, and list needed resources, and then provide the classroom teacher with a printout of my lesson and some possible follow-up activities.  This school year(2008-2009) our school focus is multicultural, and my personal focus is global 21st century skills and project based learning(PBL.)  Therefore my lessons are geared towards that endeavor.  My favorite source of insight are the calendars found on the following web sites..

 Connected Calendar 

Enchanted Learning

Read-Write & Think

Earth Calendar

Thinkafinity Calendar (formerly Marco Polo)

Syllabus

Check assignments, course calendar,

Outside Resources

A personally created  filemaker pro database of over 200 records of web 2.0 sites.. that can be used for free... and easily integrated kin to a classroom of inquiry and creative thought.