COMPUTER Literacy.

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Information Literacy

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What is Information Literacy?

And why should I care?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.

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Why teach information literacy? Why teach information literacy? • The information explosion has provided

countless opportunities for students and has dramatically altered the knowledge and abilities they will need to live productively in the twenty-first century. Students must become skillful consumers and producers of information in a range of sources and formats to thrive personally and economically in the communication age.


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What is information literacy?

If you are information literate, you are able If you are information literate, you are able to to • know when you have a

need for information • find the information you need • evaluate the information you find

and use it effectively to meet your needs


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Another conceptAnother 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.


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Literacy, Competence or Competency?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.


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Adding to the confusion of terms!Adding to the confusion of terms!

Several other terms and combinations of Several other terms and combinations of terms have been also used by different terms have been also used by different authors: 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’


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A related term often used outside library media circlesA related term often used outside library media circles

• 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 learningInquiry-based learning


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Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning

Explore the Approaches 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.


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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

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