Designing Digital Literacy Programs with IM-PACT: Information Motivation, Purpose, Audience, Content, and Technique » (New Edition)

Written for teachers and librarians working at either the elementary or high school level, this guide presents an instructional model for developing engaging lessons plans and teaching information research and analysis skills in both print and computer format. Small (Syracuse University) suggest strategies for identifying the learning objectives of students, examines the different forms lessons can take, and provides seven sample lesson plans. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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This book not only presents a new design for information-literacy programs, but also addresses trends in education and common practices and builds connections among existing theories and research. Small refocuses constructivist theory, Bloom's taxonomy, the ARCS models, national and state standards and initiatives, recent and accepted professional research, common learning activities, and more into her model and provides functional guidelines for implementing it as the foundation for library programs. IM-PACT challenges teachers to address Information Motivation, Purpose, Audience, Content, and Technique for all learning experiences. Small also provides six successful lesson guides and a template for designing individual IM-PACT learning activities, including a Web site motivational analysis checklist (WebMAC) that professionals will likely find useful both for selecting materials for students and for guiding them through learning how to evaluate Web resources. The content of this book is impressively thorough, and is supported with tables, charts, an index, and learning activities. The presentation, however, is flat, gray, and unattractive, which is a contradiction of the content-a gentle irony in the light that motivation itself shines on the process of IM-PACT.-Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.