Information Literacy Benchmarks

English: Media and Technology

Select and apply appropriate media and technology to a task or topic.

Grade 3 Benchmark Grade 5 Benchmark Grade 8 Benchmark CIM/Grade 10 Benchmark
Understand that a variety of resources can be used to provide information. Access and use a variety of resources to provide information. Select and use a variety of resources based on specific needs. Make selective and discriminating use of media and technology to meet specific information needs.
Select and use keywords to locate information. Demonstrate effective search strategies appropriate to the research tool (i.e. truncation for plurals and other forms of a word.) Demonstrate Boolean search strategies (i.e. logical operators and, or, not) to assist in keyword searching. Demonstrate Boolean search strategies (i.e. logical operators and, or, not) to assist in keyword searching.

 


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