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This page will serve as the outline or script for our Persuasive Presentation.

I. Introduction of the Big6 --"Feeling overwhelmed with the new additions to the curriculum? Wondering how to fit it all in? Well, integration is the answer and the Big6 Skills support it! Keep listening to find out how! Slide to catch listener's attention and provoke further listening. Possible frazzled cat hair picture to support the stressed out nature in which teachers are put under. --Wordle of Big6 Components and Steps -- "This model is intended to foster the acquisition of research, problem-solving, and metacognitive skills through the cooperation of both school library media specialists and classroom teachers" (ALA, 2006). -"As we set the goal to educate students to become critical and independent thinkers who will be able to lead, to create, and to succeed, the passive learning/linear teaching model is no longer sufficient and we need a better framework to assist students in achieving this goal" (Eisenberg 23).

II. Student benefits of using Big6 --"Palinscar's definition of metacognition as the ability to plan, implement, and evaluate strategic approaches to learning and problem solving is supported by the six steps of Big6. Students who engage in task definition and information-seeking strategies are formulating a plan in order to complete an assignment or solve a problem. Engaging in location and access, use of information, and synthesis is the implementation of that plan. Evaluating the process and product resulting from the synthesis activity to the final step" (ALA, 2006). - "Differentiated instruction and the Big6 seem to be made for each other" (Jansen, 32). - "...the Big6 process allows for seamless differentiation by interest, readiness, and learning profile" (Jansen, 32). - "Educators can use the Big6 skills to guide students to develop critical thinking skills" (Murray 42). -"These fundamental skills provide students with a comprehensive set of powerful skills to conquer the information age" (Eisenberg 20).

III. Teacher benefits of using Big6 --Suggest activities that could benefit from Big6 Skills. --Technology integration -- "Effective integration of information and technology skills learning has two requirements: (1) the skills must directly relate to the content area curriculum and to classroom assignments and (2) the skills themselves need to be tied together in a logical and systematic information process model" (Eisenberg and Berkowitz, 55). -"Teachers can integrate lessons about the Big6 into subject area content and assignments"(Eisenberg 21).

IV. Academic Achievement --How does this process support curriculum and student success? -"...it offers a strongly supported strategy to help you develop students who can think through the research or inquiry process to meet the curriculum expectations" (Hughes, 28). -"If you look at the direct connection to Bloom's Taxonomy, the six steps follow that well known description of thinking skills from lower order to higher order thinking skills" (Hughes, 28). -- "Activities utilizing information-literacy skills are varied, from creating pamphlets on drugs in health class, to researching and recommending vacation trips in social studies class, to writing newspaper articles in journalism, English, or history classes" (ALA, 2006). - "The Big6 integrates information search and use skills with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information to specific needs and tasks" (Murray 42). V. Conclusion --Review six steps -Steps of the Big6: 1. Task Definition 2. Information Seeking and Strategies 3. Location and Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation --"So why choose Big6?" Slide to highlight important reflections on our findings. - "We must recognize and accept the fact that knowledge is changing so fast that no traditional curriculum can adequately supply students with fact-based learning needed for the challenges they will face" (Murray 42). ​ - "If educators promote and use an information problem-solving process like the Big6 Skills, they can help students learn to locate, select, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from a variety of sources in order to make intelligent decisions" (Murray 42). -'These are the higher-level thinking skills people can use in any content area, at any level, and can continue to use throughout their lives, no matter what new technology or information systems they encounter" (Murray 42).