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1. Purpose

2. Product

3. Foundation Knowledge

4. Big pic

5. Info gaps

6. Driving ideas, search terms and questions

7. Learning steps and timeframe

8. Info sources

9. Info resources

10. Info within resources

11. Interviewing info

12. Surfing

13. Slurping

14. Summarising

15. Testing and evaluating

16. Organising

17. Synthesising

18. Analysing

19. Interpreting

20. Performing

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20 Learning Actions

The 3Doors to InfoLiteracy ® open to 20 AIMING, CLAIMING, FRAMING learning actions. Frames help teachers to prompt students to design, shape and represent their thinking and reasoning.

AIMING ACTIONS

  1. Designing the purpose.
  2. Designing the product.
  3. Harnessing/ developing foundation knowledge.
  4. Designing the topic big pic.
  5. Identifying info gaps.
  6. Identifying driving ideas, search terms and questions.
  7. Designing the learning steps and timeframe.
  8. Identifying info sources.
  9. Finding info resources.
  10. Identifying likely info within resources.

FRAMES

CLAIMING & FRAMING ACTIONS

  1. Interviewing info - actively looking for info claims.
  2. Surfing the info (reading, listening, viewing) quickly.
  3. Slurping the info (reading, listening, viewing) deeply.
  4. Summarising info claims.
  5. Testing and evaluating the info claims.
  6. Organising info claims.
  7. Synthesising the info claims.
  8. Analysing info claims.
    • categorising & classifying
    • listing & sequencing
    • linking & relating
    • comparing & contrasting
    • establishing cause & effect
  9. Interpreting info claims.
  10. 'Performing' knowing.

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