Research skills: Information literacy

• Select resources deliberately

• Evaluate and select information sources based on their appropriateness

• Use a wide range of sources & types of sources

• Identify primary and secondary sources

• AISM Virtual Library - this is your one-stop shop for our library catalogue, databases, news subscription, and research support tools

• MISO Graphic Organizer - a brainstorming technique for gathering information from a variety of places

• Tasks and resources - a helpful document for thinking through planning stages of a project

• Using Wikipedia - this short (2:41) video explains useful aspects of Wikipedia that support research

• Evaluating Sources:

  • OPCVL OPCVL (Origin, Purpose, Content, Value, Limitation) is the main source evaluation approach used at AISM

  • OPCVL - questions to ask yourself about origin, purpose, content, value, & limitations

  • SIFT is a useful acronym to support the steps involved in fact-checking news sources