Dansville High School LMC

Essential Skills for the Information Age The Big6 in Action

Presents the Big6 Skills approach to information problem-solving in schools. Shows how to teach information and technology skills. In excerpts from teacher inservice sessions and classroom sequences, Mike Eisenberg explains the Big6 Skills students need in the information age: task definition, information seeking strategies, location and access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation. Graphics, commentary from narrator, and segments of students at work demonstrate use of the Big6 Skills.