Secretary Spellings announced the appointment and re-appointment of six National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) members. The 24-member governing board develops policy guidance for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the only continuing assessment of what students have learned in various subjects. More: continued here

Today at 1:00 pm ET, officials from the U.S. Department of Education are participating in a live webcast to discuss the final regulations for Title I announced by the Secretary on October 28. You may ask questions via email prior to and during the live event. If you have a question or comment, please email [...]

I just read with pleasure Felicia Smith’s article “Games for Teaching Information Literacy Skills”. It is an open access article: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/f-smith.htmAlthough the author refers to a chemistry class, I feel the technique could be transferred to a physics class. (Source: Physics Information Fluency) More: continued here

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The last post got me thinking of the best ways to connect with instructors and ultimately embed information literacy instruction in the classroom.In the instance referred to in the article, the librarian happened to work on a curriculum committee with the professor.  This simple interaction opened the door to collaboration.From personal experience, in what other [...]

Last Saturday, I went to “Make a Difference Day” with my wife and two sons on the Central Michigan University campus. It was a literacy event with free books, free foods, and activities. Also in attendence was Mr. McFeely from Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood.We collected our free books and also stood in life so that the [...]

Digital Natives est un projet réunissant des chercheurs du Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard) et le Research Center for Information Law (St Gallen, Suisse).”Are all youth digital natives? Simply put, no. Though we frame digital natives as a population “born digital,” not all youth are digital natives. Digital natives share a common global [...]

The Chinese Training the Trainer workshop (part of the UNESCO series) was held on 21-23 October and had 120 participants. There is a press release about it on the UNESCO website here. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

The call for nominations for the CSG IL Group information Literacy Award forthe most inventive initiative in the sphere of information literacy is nowopen. Further information can be found at: http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/2009/award.htm (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

Some interesting statistics from the The Survey of Academic In-Library Expenditure and Use of Instructional Technology:– Mean spending in the past year for computers designed especially for library information literacy training or training computer centers was $15,773.– 21.62% of the libraries in the sample have purchased classroom response system technology. A third of doctoral & [...]