Archive for the 'Information Literacy' Category

Information Literacy Weblog: Teens, Virtual Environments and

Though rooted in the digital world for many of their daily activities, teens lack basic information literacy skills for academic tasks and other demands. Specific instruction through the educational system may not be feasible, but it …

Information Literacy Weblog: Short articles: PBL; Twitter; Discovery

Introducing problem-based learning into one-shot information literacy instruction at Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries by Alan Carbery & Nora Hegarty There is also an item by one of the students currently on our MA …

Information Literacy Weblog: Information literacy meets E-learning

Are there any advantages in teaching information literacy skills using a virtual learning environment (VLE) or course management systems (such as Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT) in a blended learning context?

Information Literacy Weblog: My 2000th blog post! I celebrate with

I am not sure whether this has been used much for information literacy, but the second one, Xtranormal Movie Maker certainly has. There has been a recent discussion on the North American ili information literacy discussion …

As Relevant as Ever… | National Forum on Information Literacy

There is a growing perception among information and education professionals that information literacy is losing its relevancy and digital literacy is now the “new kid on the block” in terms of technological proficiency in the k-16 …

Information Literacy Weblog: Information Literacy in the wild: free book

This book, Information Literacy in the wild, is an outcome of a module at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, USA: Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning which is taken by Masters students in …

Howard Rheingold: Critical Thinking vs. Information Literacy

The findings showed that combinations of terms (i.e. ideas) such as [information & literacy & related term] or [critical & thinking & related term], when organised based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning (Bloom 1956), clarified the similarities …

Information Literacy Weblog: Information Literacy in the Workplace

Information Literacy in the Workplace. The new issue of Education Libraries, the open-access journal published by the Education Division of the (US) Special Libraries Association, focuses on workplace information literacy.

Business Orientation & Information Literacy | Written Essays

Paper Topic: Business Orientation & Information Literacy Information Literacy Proctored Final Examination Part A Theories , extinction , and dinosaurs theories and extinct and dinosaurs I would use secondary sources due to the fact that cave …

Serap Kurbanoglu | EMMILE in libraries (and beyond) – European

EMMILE in libraries (and beyond) – European Meeting on Media and Information Literacy Education. Skip to content … “The Importance of Information Literacy as a Transversal Competency”. Abstract: Globalization and …