Big+6+Notes

Hughes, Sandra "The Big6 as a Strategy for Student Research." School Libraries in Canada 22.4 (2003): 28. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 18 Oct. 2009.

"The Big6 provides a strategy for developing the foundation of higher order thinking skills and the language skills of reasoning and critical thinking and then applying the understanding of the process and the skills to any inquiry process." //Would You Want to Use the Big6?//
 * linked to Bloom's Taxonomy, follows the thinking skills from lower order to higher order
 * integrates with technology to develop information literacy
 * students learn inquiry process within relevant curriculum
 * can be used by all ages
 * "Big6 can be applied as a thinking process to deal with most problems and therefore can be applied consistently and repeatedly throughout the learning program, thereby increasing a student's chance of learning it" (p28).

Big 6 works best when learning is relevant, skills of the steps are taught beforehand, students are given a framework/guidelines and a component of self evaluation/reflection, used in different contexts and integrated, is lead by the TL.