http://blog.lvanj.org News about literacy and the benefits of reading. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/03/information-literacy-weblog-teens-virtual-environments-and/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/03/information-literacy-weblog-teens-virtual-environments-and/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/03/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/03/information-literacy-weblog-teens-virtual-environments-and/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-short-articles-pbl-twitter-discovery/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-short-articles-pbl-twitter-discovery/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:40:02 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-short-articles-pbl-twitter-discovery/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-meets-e-learning-2/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-meets-e-learning-2/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-meets-e-learning-2/ 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?

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/02/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-meets-e-learning-2/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/01/information-literacy-weblog-my-2000th-blog-post-i-celebrate-with/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/01/information-literacy-weblog-my-2000th-blog-post-i-celebrate-with/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:45:00 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/01/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/02/01/information-literacy-weblog-my-2000th-blog-post-i-celebrate-with/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/as-relevant-as-ever%e2%80%a6-national-forum-on-information-literacy/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/as-relevant-as-ever%e2%80%a6-national-forum-on-information-literacy/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:02 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/as-relevant-as-ever%e2%80%a6-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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/as-relevant-as-ever%e2%80%a6-national-forum-on-information-literacy/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-wild-free-book/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-wild-free-book/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:07:00 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/30/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-wild-free-book/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/27/howard-rheingold-critical-thinking-vs-information-literacy/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/27/howard-rheingold-critical-thinking-vs-information-literacy/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:15:08 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/27/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/27/howard-rheingold-critical-thinking-vs-information-literacy/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-workplace/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-workplace/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:59:00 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/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.

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/information-literacy-weblog-information-literacy-in-the-workplace/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/business-orientation-information-literacy-written-essays/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/business-orientation-information-literacy-written-essays/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:04 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/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 …

]]> http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/business-orientation-information-literacy-written-essays/feed/ 0 http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/serap-kurbanoglu-emmile-in-libraries-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-european/ http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/serap-kurbanoglu-emmile-in-libraries-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-european/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:03 +0000 webmaster http://blog.lvanj.org/2012/01/24/serap-kurbanoglu-emmile-in-libraries-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-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 …

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