Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.

 

Here’s a new twist on teaching teens critical information literacy skills: integrating Web sites already popular with young adults into teaching and programming. Linda Braun shows how teachers and librarians can use these sites to teach math, science, language arts, and social studies, as well as basic information literacy skills. This unique guide includes lesson plans, activity sheets, and templates in four sections: arts and entertainment (including music and movies); shopping; the quest for self-definition (incorporating the use of discussion boards, mailing lists, and chat rooms); and sports. These creative plans offer the tools needed to teach 12 to 18 year olds new ways to locate, evaluate, and use Internet resources successfully. Each section has three parts beginning with an overview, then lesson plans and activity sheets, followed by a list of selected resources, both print and online. Here is how to connect specific popular Internet resources to information literacy skills for teens. The connections it is possible to make between the Internet resources teens use and the regular curriculum will surprise you –and help to improve your teaching and services.

 "This book has a great deal to offer any professional who works with teenagers using IT...interesting, stimulating and motivating...teachers from different key learning areas could make use of this fresh approach."
-- Orana
 
"These lessons will hold teen interest while they are taught Internet and critical thinking skills."
-- VOYA
 
"An excellent technology source."
-- Booklist
 

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