An Information Literacy Umbrella for Instruction Instructional activities at Joyner Library, East Carolina University, currently include course-integrated instruction, online tutorial use, class web pages, research consultations, a customizable subject guide database, and a writing contest. These instructional activities can be more usefully planned and evaluated with proper program building. With an improved planning process, an “Information Literacy umbrella” will also allow the instruction librarians to target certain student groups more effectively, specifically incoming first-year students, distance education students, and students who are participating in a new 3-year-to-degree program. http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/cho24653j.htm - More
Enhancing Information Literacy: A Practical Exemplar This case-study outlines a teaching partnership between library and academic staff at the University of Waikato. It describes the strategies adopted to develop greater student information literacy and knowledge of source materials; and demonstrates the inter-relationship between student assignments and library resourcing. Both achievements and areas of difficulty are discussed. http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo2458may.htm - More
Information Literacy Defines information literacy and looks at what has been learned so far in K-12 education, libraries, and higher education. http://www.libraryinstruction.com/infolit2.html - More
Information Literacy and the Net A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington. http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/oldonline/literacy.htm - More
Information Literacy or Literate Information? This paper is based on the results of a recently concluded 15-year longitudinal study of highly effective teachers conducted by Ken Bain, which argue that library based information literacy duplicates in poor fashion what effective teachers, with well-developed curricula, already accomplish with their students. Furthermore, information literacy does not produce well-educated students in any classic sense of the word. http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeIII/issue2/conf3.html - More
Understanding Information Literacy Overview as to what information literacy is and why it is important.
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