IL models

As I read the growing pile of articles and books that I found regarding models for teaching IL it made me think of my own process of gathering information and whether it matches any of the models I was reading about. I don't remember ever learning a process for researching in primary school. I think research for me then meant finding something that sounded like my topic in a book and plagirising it to death. Along the way somewhere I appear to have developed the ability to define what I am looking for, seek it out and evaluate its usefulness before using it.

Where and when this clicked for me I can't really pinpoint. However, I recognise if I did not develop these skills along the way there is no way I would have ever been successful at university. I am excited about the opportunity I will have this year at introducing one of these model to the staff and students at the school to give them some structure for their research. I know many teachers find research projects with primary aged children an extremely frustrating process as they struggle to find what they are looking for within the masses of information available both in the library and online. After locating something relevant it is then the very challenging task of putting it into their own words rather than blatantly copying.

I am leaning towards the NSW model as it seems very clear and easy to use while I found the PLUS model has too much to do at each step. The NSW model seemed to step it out much clearer. Anyway, as the school year is due to begin next week.... we'll see how it goes...