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Information Studies Course: Idea Lab Melissa Balk, Librarian Thousand Islands High School @balkm

Housekeeping • ½ English Credit, ½ year course • Taught in library and classroom setting • Class open to all seniors/juniors • Curriculum designed by librarian: *see syllabus

Tony Wagner

Cornell Notes

Let’s get…visual

Joyce Valenza’s “Visual Note Sketching activity” Why teach students to do it? Watch Elizabeth’s story…

http://austinkleon.com/category/visual-note-taking/

Student Activity: Create an infographic to make information “credible” and “sticky”! There is a teacher’s guide!

Your turn! From the “concrete” chapter: “The distinguishing trait of concrete ideas is that you can picture them in your head.” With the person next to you, make concrete one term: Democracy Justice Friendship

Evaluation/ “Presume”

Works Cited Heath, Chip, and Dan Heath. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . New York: Random House, 2007. Print. Heath, Dan. "Made To Stick: Presentations That Stick." FastCompany.com . 7 Apr. 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. Lessig, Lawrence. "Larry Lessig on Laws That Choke Creativity." TED: Ideas worth Spreading . 2007. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. Reynolds, Garr. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery . Berkeley, CA: New Riders Pub., 2008. Print. Roam, Dan. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures . New York: Portfolio, 2008. Print. Sandel, Michael. "Episode One." Lecture. Harvard, Cambridge. 21 Nov. 2013. Justice with Michael Sandel . 2011. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. "Student Projects." LibGuides at Springfield Township High School . Ed. Joyce Valenza. Springshare, 2013. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. Valenza, Joyce. "NeverEndingSearch." School Library Journal, 2012. Web. 22 Mar. 2012.