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Information. Motivation. Purpose. Audience. Content. Technique. These are the key components to the IM-PACT model of teaching information literacy skills. Today's librarians and educators must teach students how to understand, evaluate and integrate information in multiple, computer delivered formats in order for them to succeed in the 21st century. Ruth Small, a leader in information literacy instruction and motivation, shows you how to develop a teaching style that keeps students motivated, excited, and ready to embrace the new world of information. Learn the importance of needs assessments, collaborative planning, developing goals and objectives, audience analysis, cognitive styles, learning styles, attitudes, motivational styles, information literacy models, presentation methods, learning materials, teaching techniques, and more.

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Library Journal Review

This guide is less about information literacy than one would think from the title. It is an excellent book written for media center librarians about developing lesson plans to teach students how to evaluate and use digital resources. Small, director of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy, NY, presents a practical model for developing motivational lesson plans. In Part 1, she explains how four components--purpose, audience, content, and technique--are used to motivate students. In Part 2, Small provides seven successful lesson plans, each aimed at different grade levels and each with a case study. Part 3 adds value to the text by featuring an activity sheet, IM-PACT lesson planning guide templates, and evaluation checklists. A supporting web site, S.O.S. for Information Literacy--www. informationliteracy.org--is still under development. Small has published widely in the fields of student motivation and information literacy. Those who have recently purchased Developing an Information Literacy Program K-12, edited by Mary Jo Langhorne (Neal-Schuman, 2004) will be relieved to find that they complement one another on the subjects of information literacy and teaching. Highly recommended for school media centers.--Paul Deane, Arlington Heights, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

School Library Journal Review

This book not only presents a new design for information-literacy programs, but also addresses trends in education and common practices and builds connections among existing theories and research. Small refocuses constructivist theory, Bloom's taxonomy, the ARCS models, national and state standards and initiatives, recent and accepted professional research, common learning activities, and more into her model and provides functional guidelines for implementing it as the foundation for library programs. IM-PACT challenges teachers to address Information Motivation, Purpose, Audience, Content, and Technique for all learning experiences. Small also provides six successful lesson guides and a template for designing individual IM-PACT learning activities, including a Web site motivational analysis checklist (WebMAC) that professionals will likely find useful both for selecting materials for students and for guiding them through learning how to evaluate Web resources. The content of this book is impressively thorough, and is supported with tables, charts, an index, and learning activities. The presentation, however, is flat, gray, and unattractive, which is a contradiction of the content-a gentle irony in the light that motivation itself shines on the process of IM-PACT.-Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.