Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, Updated Edition / Edition 2

by American Association of School Librarians

Overview

Since its publication in June 1998, Information Power has become the most talked about book in the school library world! It includes the standards that will help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with the guidelines and principles that lead to dynamic, student-centered programs. The book's underlying concepts will guide you in:

• helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation, or disciplinary borders;
• joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and nonprint resources;
• designing authentic learning tasks and assessments; and
• defining your role in student learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838934708
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

Editorial Reviews

Presents guidelines for fostering improvement in school library media programs and strategies for creating a community of lifelong learners. Details information literacy standards for student learning, and discusses technology, information access and delivery, learning and teaching, and program administration. Contains six appendices of policies and standards. For school library media specialists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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