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 * When:** [|Session Five]: Sunday 12:30pm–2:00pm


 * Where:** [|Room 211]


 * Who:** Sean Nash, Melissa Corey


 * Affiliation:** Saint Joseph Missouri Public School District


 * Conversational Focus/Audience:** High School, Middle School

A unit on information literacy will not do in 2010. Nor will an entire course. Decontextualized approaches to this very real need are too disjointed to make a lasting difference. Approaches to literacy of any sort beg for context. They beg for relevance and authenticity. Tacking "literacy" to the end of a word today can generate more than a light amount of controversy. The spectrum ranges from those who claim "literacy is literacy" to others advocating a new literacy for nearly any recent phenomenon. We unquestionably argue for the purposeful instruction of information literacy goals throughout the curriculum. To manage the firehose of information available today, students must aquire this crucial literacy while deeply embedded within rigorous content. This need not be an ominous task for today's educators. We will begin this session by outlining a protocol collaboratively developed and implemented by an instructional coach and library media specialist in a Midwestern public high school. This protocol can be put into practice formally or informally and can be a smart, strategic approach for those with a curriculum already overloaded with content. Our simple approach has made inroads toward implementation of information literacy goals in every corner of our school in Saint Joseph, Missouri. The bulk of the session will then feature a series of nested protocols to develop the stems of many more authentic mini-lessons that can seamlessly bring this important literacy across content areas. This set of lesson stems will be collaboratively created and archived digitally.
 * Conversation Description:**

As an instructional coach the past five years, I tend to use rather modified protocols, as well as multiple protocols within a session. Ultimately, we will all collectively plot attendee-submitted examples and ideas that fit the loose stem/protocol co-presented at the beginning of this session. These lesson stems will provide a solid starting point for anyone wishing to take back a simple but relevant model for building formal and informal information literacy skills in their students across any and all content areas.
 * Conversational Practice:**

Check out the Marshall McLuhan video on YouTube. We was a visionary for our times. ====[|Finding Dulcinea] - "//Finding Dulcinea presents only credible, high-quality and trustworthy Web sites, saving time for the novice and the experienced user alike." //====

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