A friend sent me this article. The subject line of their email was – So now Google is the expert on information literacy?
Update: ‘Google Search Education’ (Chronicle of Higher Education)
information literacy
Stories about information literacy
Where should our information literacy standards come from?
Where should our information literacy standards come from?
“The ACRL Information Literacy standards have often frustrated me. I struggle to find their usefulness to my day-to-day work, since the content of most of my information literacy sessions comes from conversations with the professor of the class, and are geared directly to student assignments. As such, use of the standards usually involves fitting what I’m already doing back into the structure of the standards. And because the standards are meant to apply to all disciplines, they suffer from being both too vague and too specific at the same time.”
Information Literacy For The Mythical Digital Natives
I wish I could’ve used this as the title for this post: “Designing information literacy instruction without understanding that feral place where many library users reside is about as effective as taming a wolf. We can do it, but what good does that do for the wolf?”
GREAT post from Joe Grobelny: Feral “Information Literacy”
“Digital native is a fantasy invented by the fans of silicon valley to pigeonhole a generation for the sake of selling technology, but the truth is far less convenient. Not only the digital natives, but many people take on a feral state in their interactions with the internet, as it constantly shifts its boundaries, its cities and deserts. Likewise, the library is a place where we ought to allow for the feral. The ACRL information literacy standards are only useful to the domesticated to promote their efficient and purposeful use of the library. The truth is that most people do not experience the library as a city, but rather as a wilderness on the edge of civilization.
See Also: Matthew Battles, The Call of the Feral.
A Blended Librarian Talks Information Literacy
It’s a concept designed for a campus climate in which librarians are called on to do many things besides staff the reference desk. “What happens on a college campus is that our librarians are finding themselves exposed more. They’re not just inside libraries anymore,” Mr. McBride says. “Things happen very quickly in our profession, and we have to be able to adjust very quickly to it.”
Information literacy more than just Googling
From jconline.com:
Q: What can a reference librarian do that I can’t do on Google?
A: They know about more sophisticated strategies to find information and more efficient ways to find information than Google and teach you. They can teach you to evaluate those sources you find on Google and get better, more accurate results.
Information literacy- Defending Vaccines: Actress Dispels Link To Autism
A movie star and a prominent scientist have teamed up to reassure the public that childhood vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.
Amanda Peet, who starred in films including The X-Files: I Want To Believe and Syriana, is working with Paul Offit, the chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Their goal is to counter the assault on vaccines led by celebrities including Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Holly Robinson Peete.
UNESCO and IFLA launch Information Literacy Logo Contest
UNESCO and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) invite everyone to propose an international Logo to identify the work on information literacy. The aim of creating this Logo is to make communication easier among those who carry out information literacy projects, their communities and societies in general. The Logo will be available free of charge and promoted as an international symbol of information literacy.
Information Literacy partners
This was posted last week by the Shifted Librarian, but thought I’d pass it on.
“Karen Markey is a faculty member in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Earlier this year, she received a small grant from the Delmas Foundation to build a prototype online board game that teaches students information-literacy skills. Her game prototype is now fully operational and is being tested and evaluated by a class of 75 undergraduates at the University of Michigan.”
Karen is now looking for some help to further test her idea. So take a look at the posting for more information.
A Different Approach to Teaching Information Literacy
This article suggests a new approach to teaching information literacy: creating “a framework that focuses on higher education’s need to prepare students to be content creators within their disciplinary or professional specialties. Delineating the skills that students need in order to create content within the disciplinary context could be a more meaningful way of encouraging the integration of a wide variety of skills into the curriculum. Although information professionals may be able to neatly compartmentalize various literacies [e.g., media, technical, information], these divisions are beside the point for student content creators.”
Exam measures students’ ‘information literacy’
Darla writes “The Educational Testing Service (ETS) administers
a test to determine a person’s ‘information
literacy’.
Students “really do know how to use the
technology,” said Dolores Gwaltney, library media specialist at
Thurston High School in Redford, Michigan, one of a handful of high
school trial sites for the test over the next few weeks. “But they
aren’t always careful in evaluating. They go to a source and accept it.”
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