Elements | Definitions | Competencies |
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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. |