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Reaching Every Student:

Building Readers and Researchers with INFOhio

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Reaching Every Student Topics�

How do students use eBooks for research?
How do I use choice boards?
How do I help students learn information literacy skills?

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How do students use eBooks for research?

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What are the steps in the research process?	What are skills students need for research?	What are go-to resources from INFOhio to use?

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Graphic Organizer

Visual
Organize info
Break down info into manageable parts

Graphic Organizers are helpful to students for so many reasons.

Maya can use this graphic organizer while she reads, she can find new information that will help her keep her thoughts all in one place to refer back to when she creates her final project.

Using the eBooks she has chosen, Maya writes down facts about:

What lions eat (meat—they are carnivores)
Where lions live (grassy plains and savannas in Africa)
How lions behave (they live in groups called prides and roar to communicate)

She also finds a map showing where lions live and decides to include it on her poster.

She finds and writes down definitions from the glossary for words like carnivore, habitat, and pride and some other words she might want to use in her project.

Maya is ready to start creating her poster with all the new information she found. She prints a few pictures, adds vocabulary words from the glossary, and uses the map to show where lions live.�

Graphic Organizer

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Practice Using the Grade Level eBook and Video Collections

Go to the INFOhio homepage (www.infohio.org) and select the grade level button that represents the students in your building.�
Find the eBooks and Videos collection for that grade level range.�
Familiarize yourself with the eBooks and Videos collection:

Try a keyword search.
Use the filters.
Open an eBook or Video.

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How do I use choice boards?

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Offer students reading materials in multiple formats.

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Share additional features of eBooks that print books don’t have.

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Expand your library collection

and offer more choices with

INFOhio

eBooks.

I was limited with the number of up-to-date non-fiction books I had available; therefore, I shared Capstone Interactive eBooks and PebbleGo Next ebooks, and the teacher was thrilled! We both commented how the eBooks are so visually appealing.

-Gahanna Jefferson Schools

I wanted animal books so 2nd graders could do a report. I was very happy to learn about BookFlix and Capstone Connect and see the animal books available.

-Youngstown City Schools

When I do my lesson on Titanic, I may only have 15 books in my library so not all kids can use the books to do their research for our project. The fact that students can all read the same book through Capstone Interactive eBooks makes it a wonderful tool for the classroom.

-Pickerington Local Schools

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How Do I Share Choice Boards?

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How Can I Use Choice Boards?

Implement Station Rotation.
Support Background Knowledge.
Reflect and Show What You Know.

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Implement Station Rotation�

Station 1: Check Out Books�

Station 2: Hands-on Activity�

Station 3: Digital Resource Activity (e.g. choice board)

When I worked in school libraries, I usually saw students on a fixed schedule for 40 minutes per class. I had to come up with a way to keep students engaged, learn something new, and have enough time to check out books in this short period of time. ��So, I would begin with a whole-group read-aloud and/or short mini-lesson on the topic I wanted students to learn more about. (5-10 minutes). Then I always had 3 stations for students, which were 10 minutes each. Two of the stations were something related to the topic of the lesson.

Station 1: Check out books.

Station 2: Hands-on this could be writing about what they learned, drawing a picture, legos or other makerspace type activities

Station 3: Digital Resource on Chromebook - this is where you could include a choice board on the lesson topic and allow students to choose which book or video they want to listen or watch.

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Support Background Knowledge

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Reflect and Show What You Know

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Use Educator Tools to find Choice Boards

Go to Educator Tools and do a keyword search for “choice boards.”�
Find choice boards that you could use in your library. �
Also, think of a teacher that you collaborate with. Can you find choice boards to share with them? �

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How do I help students learn information literacy skills?

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What is information literacy?

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Information literacy involves an understanding of how information is created, accessed, shared, and valued and the abilities and mindset necessary to be able to locate, evaluate, use, and create information sources ethically and effectively.

Information Literacy: Defining Information Literacy

The Ohio State University, Teaching and Learning Resource Center

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In your library, do you….

help students find information? (print or digital)
teach students how to cite sources?
teach students how to evaluate information for credibility?
help students use a resource on INFOhio?

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Information Literacy

Research Skills

Media Literacy

Digital Literacy

AI Literacy

Information Literacy is often used to encompass a wide range of knowledge, skills, and habits we expect students to know and be able to do.

Information Literacy includes…

Teaching research skills, for example: pick a topic to research, develop research questions, use a database to find information.
Teaching media literacy skills, for example: identify misinformation and malinformation
Teaching digital literacy skills, for example: how to use digital platforms for positive results
Teaching AI literacy skills, for example: understanding how and where AI chatbots get their information

All of these skills fall under the information literacy umbrella. Information literacy asks us, and our students to know how to find and use information. No matter what form that information takes.

And most likely, you are already teaching or helping students to develop these skills in your libraries.

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Teach Information Literacy Skills in Your School Library

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Open Space

openspace.infohio.org

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New! Information Literacy Hub

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Information Literacy Hub

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News Literacy Project

Common Sense Education

ICivics

Verizon

Google Applied Digital Skills

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Search the Hub

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Search a Collection

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Teach Information Literacy Skills in the Library

Use interactives, videos, and activities to introduce skills.
Teach skills using targeted mini lessons.
Implement station rotation.

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Use Interactives and Videos

If you are collaborating with a classroom teacher, you may only have a limited amount of days with the students. Videos and interactives are a great way to hook students and introduce information literacy skills. Many of the videos you will find in the Information Literacy Hub will include a lesson plan or handout to use with the video.

Here we have a video from PBS LearningMedia. This video is located within the Information Literacy Hub.

To go to the video, click View Resource. The view resource button will take you directly to the item.

<CLICK> Now were on the PBS Learning Media website. If you look at the URL, you can see we landed directly on the page with the video. Again, if you’re short on time, a video or interactive, paired with handout or some type of reflection assignment can be a good way to teach information literacy skills.

This is a good example of how to collaborate with a classroom teacher to teach information literacy skills. In this lesson, students learn how to evaluate information in the science field. This would be a good lesson to offer a science teacher in your building.

Top 4 Tips To Spot Bad Science Reporting: Above the Noise | INFOhio Open Space

Common Sense Education: Identifying "Fake" News | INFOhio Open Space

Is It Real? Using Reverse Image Search | INFOhio Open Space

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Teach with Mini Lessons

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Implement Station Rotation

Station 1:

Check out books

Station 3:

Interactive

Station 2:

Hands-On Activity

Earlier we suggested using station rotation with the choice boards. If you have more time with your students in the library, you can use the station rotation approach to teach information literacy skills. And many of the materials you will find within the Information Literacy Hub lend themselves to working really well in a station rotation.

An elementary station rotation in the library might look like this.

Station 1: Students find and check out books

Station 2: Students complete a hands-on activity. Again, the Be Internet Awesome curriculum materials are a great resource to explore. Be Internet Awesome: Reality River Game Be Internet Awesome: Interland Game | INFOhio Open Space

Station 3: Students play a game, read an eBook, or watch a video. In this example, I have a screenshot of Reality River, which is part of the Be Internet Awesome resource

Be Internet Awesome: Media Literacy Lessons | INFOhio Open Space

interactive Research 4 Success, Selecting the Best, Practice Selecting the Best Information | INFOhio Open Space

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Grow Your Knowledge and Skills

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If you want to learn how to help your students identify misinformation, evaluate web-based resources, engage with media responsibly, check out the eBook Developing Digital Detectives. It is for adults working with K-12 learners. It gives you strategies you can use to teach students how to navigate, evaluate, and use content found on the web.

This eBook includes lessons you can use with your students, these are grab and go lessons.

We have an on-demand book study class. You can take the class on your own. Or, take it with a group of colleagues. The class includes a facilitator guide to help you reflect on each chapter.

This is a packaged deal, you have no-cost access to the eBook and the class materials.

Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the 'Fake News' Era by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins

Educator Tools

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Use the Information Literacy Hub to find Instructional Materials

Go to the Information Literacy Hub and browse the collections.�
Try a keyword search for an information literacy skill you want to teach. �
What instructional materials did you find? �

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Digital Content

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New Titles Added to BookFlix

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Removal of “Explore the Web”

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New Unit Added to ScienceFlix

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Removal of “Related Websites”

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Scholastic to Discontinue ScienceFlix

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AI Research Assistant in ProQuest

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Natural Language Search in EBSCO

EBSCO’s Natural Language Search

What is it?

New search mode.

Is helpful for users who are not experts in the field in which they are doing research on, to get more relevant results (broaden the search) and provides more complex search results that provides related terms that the user may not know (since they aren’t experts).

Under Advanced, Search Options, Natural Language Search <click>

Uses AI to help find the correct keyword terms when doing a search

This new search mode will allow people to search using questions

example: How does global warming affect invasive species? <click>

The natural language search adds things to her search results: like invasive animals, invasive plants, climate change

You can turn it on, or you can have it turned on by default

If you do this same search question without the natural language search turned on, how are the search results different?

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Updates to PebbleGo Next

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New eBooks from Capstone

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New eBooks from Gale

Coming Soon…

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New Videos from Infobase

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Web Tools

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Educator Tools

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IWonder Updates

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Book Nook Updates

The book trailer collection is more than 7 years old. To draw greater attention to newly published trailers, INFOhio will unpublish book trailers published before January 1, 2018.

This weeding process begins October 1, 2025.

As automated users, you most likely will not notice any disruption to your catalog, whether you use ISearch or Fetch.

Titles with multiple trailers, might notice a reduce number of trailers available. The link to the book trailer always takes users to the most recently published trailer.

School libraries using the 856 tag to add book trailers to MARC records will encounter a 404 error when clicking the link to an unpublished book trailer. This is a very small number of libraries that automate with INFOhio. INFOhio team members will contact the INFOhio Provider at schools using the 856 tag. INFOhio team members will work with INFOhio Providers to determine the best method for updating catalog items following the removal of book trailers.

Book Nook Sunset Plan: Weeding and Book Trailers

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PD & Support

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Updated Teach & Learn Flyers

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Book Study:

Developing Digital Detectives

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Literary Criticism

eBooks Class

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Retiring: Reading on the Screen Class

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Retiring: Literature Online Class

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INFOhio Certificates

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LWI: Accessible, Engaging, and Diverse

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Blogs: AI Series

INFOhio has three blog series all about AI!

One focuses on Ohio’s AI in Education Coalition: AI Strategy, one focuses on how you can use AI to become more proficient in your library, and the other series features an INFOhio resource and how educators can use generative AI tools to create supplemental instructional materials for students.

This blog series will explore the five guiding principles in Ohio's AI in Education Coalition: AI Strategy:

Provide All Students with Responsible AI Experiences

Reflect on Methods to Teach AI While Maintaining a Balanced Curriculum

Provide AI Learning Opportunities to All Ohio Educators

Inform Parents on How AI Supports Learning

Connect with Local Employers on AI Workforce Needs

INFOhio Resources to Provide Students with Responsible AI Experiences: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/infohio-resources-for-responsible-ai-part-1

Bring AI Skills Into a Balanced Curriculum with INFOhio Resources: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/infohio-resources-to-integrate-ai-skills-part-2

Provide AI Learning Opportunities to All Ohio Educators with INFOhio Resources: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/infohio-resources-to-integrate-ai-skills-part-3

Artificial Intelligence 101: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/ai-101 ��Using Generative AI to Integrate BookFlix into Teaching and Learning: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/using-generative-ai-to-integrate-bookflix-in-teaching-and-learning

Using Generative AI to Integrate PebbleGo Next Into Teaching and Learning: https://www.infohio.org/blog/item/using-generative-ai-to-integrate-pebblego-next-into-teaching-and-learning

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Apply for ICoach in September

The INFOhio Integration Coach program, or ICoach program, is for outstanding PreK-12 educators who are interested in learning how to integrate INFOhio's digital content and web tools into instruction and sharing their knowledge with other Ohio educators.

Grow your professional network with a community of INFOhio trainers across the state of Ohio
Add to your training toolkit with INFOhio’s free digital content and web tools that support Ohio Learning Standards
Share the power of INFOhio with educators, parents, students, and more

The ICoach application is open on a rolling basis to meet the needs of busy educators. The new application for the 2024-2025 school year will be available in September and educators can apply all year round.

Training information and a recommended completion date will be sent to those who apply throughout the year. ICoach training is worth 14-18 contact hours. Current ICoaches can also view the ICoach Learning Pathway at any time and participate in discussions in the INFOhio ICoach Open Space group.

Learn more at: https://infohio.org/campus/icoach

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Continue Learning

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Stay Connected!

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Follow us on social media.
Subscribe to our newsletter.
Join the INFOhio Community on Open Space.
Subscribe to the PD newsletter.

www.infohio.org/about/connect

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