RIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS
Dispelling the ‘Google Generation’ myth
The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG), in partnership with the TeenTech initiative, has launched a new award for 11–16-year-olds which will recognise excellence in research and information literacy. The Research and Information Literacy
Award will celebrate how well young people can dispel the ‘Google Generation’ myth and show that they can be truly information-literate researchers as they explore their ideas to make life better, simpler or easier. Award winners will have demonstrated
their ability to search intelligently across a range of resources including search engines like Google, make excellent judgements about the information they have found and put it to ethical use in their project. A vital part of being a researcher is
being information literate. What this means is being able to think about what they need to find out, to create a search plan and the sources they need to use. Maggie
Philbin, CEO TeenTech, said: “Search engines like Google are powerful and
really valuable tools but like any tool, students need to understand the best ways to use them. They also need to see how they can use them in conjunction with other ways of finding information.” Entrants/competitors will devise well-
thought through keyword searches that are likely to find the information they need, not just by using search engines but other sources including libraries. It doesn’t stop there, the information literate researcher will also show that they can use a range of evaluation criteria to suit their particular project needs. This can include checking that the information is up to date, finding out whether the information they are going to use is written by someone who is an expert in the field and asking questions such as, does the author of the information source found mention other research to back up their claims? Finally, referencing work to the highest standard will show that young people have clearly demonstrated their information literacy capabilities.
For more information on the award visit:
www.teentech.com
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PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS Students to send experiments into sp S
tudents from Croydon and Esher Primary Schools will soon be sending their own experiments into space aſter winning the Astro Pi 'Big
Idea' competition. Blasting to the top amongst hundreds of
entrants, their ideas will now be turned into reality and be run in space on the International Space Station (ISS) in November, with Britain’s very own European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake. Nearly 200 teams from primary schools
and clubs all over the UK submitted ideas for experiments and games to be performed using the modified Raspberry Pi computer, dubbed the ‘Astro Pi’, which will be operated by Tim Peake on-board the ISS. He will set the winning experiments running, collect the data generated and then download it to Earth where it will be distributed to the winning teams. Hannah Belshaw from Cumnor House
Girl’s School in Croydon won top place with her idea to represent data from the Astro Pi in the world of Minecraſt. The Cranmere Code Club team from Esher were also winners with their idea to investigate whether the Astro Pi can detect the presence of astronauts on the ISS using the temperature and humidity sensors. Both schools will now receive a class set of
Astro Pi kits, which will allow them to explore the Astro Pi further and get involved in the data-logging activities once Tim starts his mission.
Hannah Belshaw’s Minecraſt idea was
also judged to be the top entry overall in the primary school category. In addition to getting her code flown on the ISS, her school wins an image of the school premises taken from space by a British satellite. The judges recognised that Hannah’s idea is
an ingenious way to represent abstract sensor data captured by the Astro Pi computer in a format that would allow children to gain
Half of UK schoolchildren getting out B E L O W : T h e ' A stro Pi'
R I GH T : E u rop ean Sp ace A gency astronau t, T im Peak e
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hilst some children are experiencing interactive periodic tables and virtual walk-throughs of
WW1 trenches at school to help them learn, more than half are experiencing a low-tech education similar to that of their parents, according to new research.
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