Elements |
Definitions |
Competencies |
Access |
Knowing where and how to collect and/or retrieve information. |
Search, find, and retrieve information in digital environments |
Manage |
Applying an existing organizational or classification scheme. |
Conduct a rudimentary and preliminary organization of accessed information for retrieval and future applications. |
Integrate |
Interpreting and representing information – summarizing, comparing, and contrasting. |
Interpret and represent information by using ICT tools to synthesize, summarize, compare, and contrast information from multiple sources. |
Evaluate |
Making judgments about the quality, relevance, usefulness, or efficiency of information. |
Judge the currency, appropriateness, and adequacy of information and information sources for a specific purpose (including determining authority, bias, and timelines of materials). |
Create |
Generating information by adapting, applying, designing, inventing, or authoring information. |
Adapt, apply, design, or invent information in ICT environments (to describe an event, express an opinion, or support a basic argument, viewpoint or position). |
Communicate |
Communicate information persuasively to meet needs of various audiences through use of an appropriate medium. |
Communicate, adapt, and present information properly in its context (audience, media) in ICT environments and for a peer audience. The audience could be a global audience with web 2.0 technologies, for example Blogs or Wikis |
Collaborate |
Generating ideas and opinions which can be shared with peers & teachers. |
Using online tools, ideas can be shared and explored. This can lead to fertile exchanges and develop deeper learning experiences. |