This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Information literacy
As a CTE teacher, I enjoy having access to information from different sources. The information can be enlightening to me as well as my students. In healthcare things do change often and there is always news about one thing or another related to healthcare. Therefore, I do allow my students to use technology. Over the last two weeks I have learned a lot about information literacy and I will use this to help my students. I will teach them to be mindful of who is writing the information. I will also teach them to look at the site and see if it is well written and to look for information that deals with facts. If they notice misspellings of words, it may not be a good source. At my school part of the work is done in this area because many sites that my school feels are not good are blocked. This makes my job easier when it comes to information literacy.
I agree with you Ruth. It is nice to be able to have so much information available to our students. I wish it had been this easy to find information when I was in school. Writing care plans would have been so much easier! We also have many sites that are blocked by the county. It helps to take some of the pressure off of me.
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