Noodle Tools: Building Blocks of Research
Debbie Abilock states that "information literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes."
Abilock's model focuses on a set of core thinking and problem-solving meta-skills across disciplines. The model includes the following steps:
- Engaging
- Defining
- Initiating
- Locating
- Examining, Selecting, Comprehending, Assessing
- Recording, Sorting, Organizing, Interpreting
- Communicating, Synthesizing
- Evaluating
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Abilock, Debbie. Building Blocks of Research at Noodle Tools. This document tries to show the relationships among information literacy, problem solving, curriculum design and teaching. Information literacy skills are examined in terms of Student Skills and Strategies, Student Outcomes, Curriculum and Teaching Design.