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Information Literacy: What Is It?
Finding a way through the word maze
LIB 601 Libraries and Learning Fall 2010
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Information Literacy
information literacy (IL) • Skill in finding the information one
needs, including an understanding of
how libraries are organized,
familiarity with the resources they
provide (including information format
s and automated search tools), and
knowledge of commonly used research
techniques.
• ODLIS
Information Literacy
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What is Information Literacy?
And why should I care? • Information literacy skills are skills you will
need through your life. We are always seeking information. . . . Information helps us reach conclusions, make our choices, and communicate more effectively. But the good stuff is often buried in heaps of junk. We need to continue to improve our searching, evaluating and communication skills in a changing information environment.
• Remember computer literacy is not information literacy. For a comparison, read this article.
• http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/infolit.html
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Why teach information literacy? • Information literacy and communications
skills are vital to the present and future success of our students.
• At least a decade of research has shown that teaching information literacy skills in the context of the content curriculum (and a strong library program -) is the greatest predictor of student success and achievement. (Source)• More . . .
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Another concept
What is Information Competence?• information competence, at heart, is the
ability to find, evaluate, use, and communicate information in all of its various formats.
• the fusing or the integration of library literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, technological literacy, ethics, critical thinking, and communication skills. • http://hcom.csumb.edu/infocomp/aboutic/
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Literacy, Competence or Competency?Information literacy
• also known as information competence or information competency is a set of skills that helps students sift through the mass of information now available to them in order to locate and retrieve what is relevant and reliable for their research needs.
• Simply put, an information literate student understands how to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information effectively.[1]
• Teaching Information Literacy at Pasadena City College
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Adding to the confusion of terms!
Several other terms and combinations of terms have been also used by different authors: • ‘infoliteracy’, ‘informacy’, ‘information
empowerment’, ‘information competence’, ‘information competency’, ‘information competencies’, ‘information literacy skills’, ‘information literacy and skills’, ‘skills of information literacy’, ‘information literacy competence’, ‘information literacy competencies’, ‘information competence skills’, ‘information handling skills’, ‘information problem solving’, ‘information problem solving skills’, ‘information fluency’, ‘information mediacy’ and even ‘information mastery’ • Sirje Virkus: “
Information literacy in Europe: a literature review” Information Research, Vol. 8 No. 4, July 2003
Sirje Virkus
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Now also as Information Literacies
Why the plural?• The use of the term “information
literacies” emphasizes the complexity and multiplicity of skills and strategies involved in finding and using information.• Dianne Oberg: “Promoting Information
Literacies: A Focus on Inquiry.” 70th IFLA General Conference and Council, 22-27 August 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentinahttp://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/088e-Oberg.pdf
Dr. Dianne Oberg
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• We learn best when we are at the center
of our own learning. Inquiry-based learning is a learning process through questions generated from the interests, curiosities, and perspectives/experiences of the learner. When investigations grow from our own questions, curiosities, and experiences, learning is an organic and motivating process that is intrinsically enjoyable. •
Inquiry-based learning
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Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning
Explore the Approaches • Project-based learning, problem-
based learning, and inquiry-based learning all three closely relate to the information processing approach. They all fit well with technology-rich learning environments where the focus is not on the hardware and software, but on the learning experience. • Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm
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Another Related TermResource-Based Learning
• Resource-based learning actively involves students, teachers and teacher-librarians in the effective use of a wide range of print, non print and human resources . . . Students who use a wide range of resources in various mediums for learning have the opportunity to approach a theme, issue or topic of study in ways which allow for a range of learning styles and access to the theme or topic via cognitive or affective appeals. More• Resource-Based Learning: Approaches
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Yet another related term
Lifelong learning• Lifelong learning is the process of acquiring
and expanding knowledge, skills, and dispositions throughout your life to foster well-being. It isn't about taking an adult pottery class or reading a nonfiction book occasionally. It's about the decisions you make and the problems you solve in everyday life. From enrolling in an structured, formal education program to considering whether to believe an infomercial's gimmick, lifelong learning takes many forms.
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21st Century Skills
Rights and permission on the use of the learning standards
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21st Century Skills
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AKA
21st Century Literacies• 21st Century Literacies refer to the skills
needed to flourish in today's society and in the future. Today discrete disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies. It is the combination of literacies that can better help K-12 students and adult learners address and solve the issues that confront them. • http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/21stcent/index.html
This page was last updated July 8, 2002This resource was created orginally for the publication "Managing Information in a Digital Age" by teachers at Seeds University Elementary School, UCLA For more information, contact Sharon Sutton
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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How do we put it all together?Use the school library media center!
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Evidence for the benefitsStudent Learning through Ohio
School Libraries (2004)• Students appear to indicate that the school library –
not as a passive supply agency, but as an instructional agency – helps them substantially in their learning.
• What is clearly perceived to be of help is the library’s part in engaging students in an active process of building their own understanding and knowledge – the library as an agency for active learning.
• Review of the Findings Powerpoint presentation.
• Researchers: Dr. Ross Todd and Dr. Carol Kuhlthau, Rutgers
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Keith Curry LanceWhat Research Tells Us About the
Importance of School Libraries• At this point . . . there is a clear consensus in
the results now [2002] available for eight states*: School libraries are a powerful force in the lives of America's children. The school library is one of the few factors whose contribution to academic achievement has been documented empirically, and it is a contribution that cannot be explained away by other powerful influences on student performance. • White House Conference on School Libraries • *15 states—see
Now, 19 states with Indiana 2007
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A European viewSchool Library and School Librarianship
• The stream of information from TV channels, Internet, CD-ROMs, computer programmes etc. is unending. If the students, when they become adult citizens, are not to feel lost and helpless in the face of such rich sources of information, they must learn [to] devise personal strategies for information retrieval while they are still at school. Information Literacy and “strategies for independent learning skill development” are key components of any school library.
• From a White Paper by Gert Larsen, School Library Advisor, Albertslund, Denmark, p. 7
• Part of Project GrandSlam - General Research and New Development in School Libraries As Multimedia Learning Centres (see project website http://www.gslam.net )
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The Key Concept?
Competence and comfort with information and information sources
• Information literacy is the solution to Data Smog. It allows us to cope by giving us the skills to know when we need information and where to locate it effectively and efficiently. It includes the technological skills needed to use the modern library as a gateway to information. It enables us to analyze and evaluate the information we find, thus giving us confidence in using that information to make a decision or create a product.
• Introduction to Information Literacy, Association for College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association)
