To encourage and support a life-long love of reading, information literacy skills, and in-depth inquiry across all contents. We nurture students' creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking from multiple perspectives.
See below for the MYP Approaches to Learning skills we'll be focusing on in the library media center!
Finding, interpreting, judging, and creating information
* Collect, record, and verify data
* Access information to be informed and inform others
* Create references and citations and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions
* Make connections between various sources of information
* Understand the benefits and limitations of personal sensory learning preferences when accessing, processing, and recalling information
* Use memory techniques to develop long term memory
* Present information in a variety of formats and platforms
* Collect and analyze data identify solutions and make informed decisions
* Process data and report results
* Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks
* Understand and use technology systems
* Use critical literacy skills to analyze and interpret media communications
* Understand and implement intellectual property rights
* Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions
* Identify primary and secondary sources
Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information
* Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks)
* Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas (including digital social media)
* Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences
* Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentations
* Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources
* Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
* Compare, contract, and draw connections among (multi)media resources
* Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
* Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
* Interpret data
* Evaluate evidence and arguments
* Recognize and evaluate propositions
* Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
* Revise understanding based on new information and evidence Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
* Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
* Develop contrary or opposing arguments
* Analyze complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
