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What is the Big Six and how should it be used?
The Big Six is a set of questions that one must ask themselves when involving themselves in Internet Inquiry-Based projects. In answering these questions, students teach themselves skills necessary in using the Internet as a tool/resource of inquiry. The questions in the Big Six are as follows:
- What needs to be done?
-skill learned: student identifies the sort of information problem they are dealing with
- What can I use to find what I need?
-skills learned: student identifies what seems to be the best and most appropriate resources to figure out where they can find the answers to solve problems.
- Where can I find what I need?
-skills learned-learner is able to find specific resources and learns how to use such resources
- What information can I use?
-skills learned: student reads/views the actual information (process info), decide what is useful for problem, and then use the info that is needed.
- How can I put my information together?
-skills learned: student puts information together to solve the problem
- How will I know if I did my job well?
-skills learned: student learns how to reflect and evaluate their work and how they got to their solution.
The Big Six should be used for “understanding the application of Internet resources to information problems and for suggesting skills students may need to develop to take full advantage of the Internet”.
It should be used for inquiry-based research on the Internet, as well as real life problems and questions in every day life.
1 comment:
I agree with you that the skills discussed in this article can be very effective for internet use, but they can also be used for anything that needs to be researched. I think that the skills are a good resource to use because a lot of stuff on the internet is not reliable and needs to be evaluated. Students need the skills to take full advantage of any resource they may need for problem based projects.
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