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Book was written by a former Nebraska State Senator.
information literacy
Purdue Creates Nation’s First Information Literacy Endowed Chair
Jay writes “Information literacy is crucial and critical in the educational process of all our students in any academic environment. Purdue University has recognized it by announcing nation’s first Endowed Chair.
“The university will use a $2.5 million gift it received from Wayne Booker, former vice chairman of the Ford Motor Co. Purdue says students need to understand how to conduct research and how to evaluate the search results.”
Read the full article atPurdue Creates Nation’s First Information Literacy Endowed Chair.”
Information Literacy Weblog: WILU report – As we may think
Here’s the slides from the keynote of the Canadian annual information literacy conference.
WILU report – As we may think.
The second part of that title was taken from the paper by Vannevar Bush (1945). They use his vision of the scientist in a technically connected work to reflect on the situation now (when not just scientists, but citizens more generally have access to the internet and cheap devices such mobile phones). They argue that this connectedness has raised issues and challenges that Bush did not envision.
Another key part of our argument presents information literacy as not just a personal attribute, but as a soft applied discipline, leading to its application in a field of social action.
College Takes a Multitiered Approach to Information Literacy Assessment
Anonymous Patron writes “King’s College, a small, Catholic institution in northeastern Pennsylvania, has long recognized that information literacy is an important outcome of a liberal education. The college cultivates information literacy skills throughout the curriculum, and today King’s is one of a growing number of colleges to develop assessments that reflect the changing demands of information literacy. More in this AAC&U News Feature“
Information Literacy Test from ETS
Slashdot
points to the ETS’s (Educational Testing Service) Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment. The assessment
attempts to measure critical-thinking and technical skills that include
the ability to define, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and
communicate information. Wired
journalist Amit Asaravala took a trial test, which ‘may’ include completing
tasks like “scanning e-mail messages for important attachments, looking
for documents using a search engine and picking the most authoritative
sources out of a set of search results.” Asaravala suggests it’s still
rough and doesn’t (yet) coincide well with real world internet technologys
but that ETS is using feedback from the test trials to make refinements.
Slashdot
points to the ETS’s (Educational Testing Service) Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment. The assessment
attempts to measure critical-thinking and technical skills that include
the ability to define, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and
communicate information. Wired
journalist Amit Asaravala took a trial test, which ‘may’ include completing
tasks like “scanning e-mail messages for important attachments, looking
for documents using a search engine and picking the most authoritative
sources out of a set of search results.” Asaravala suggests it’s still
rough and doesn’t (yet) coincide well with real world internet technologys
but that ETS is using feedback from the test trials to make refinements.
ETS describes
information and communication technology literacy proficiency as:
… the ability to use digital technology, communication
tools and/or networks appropriately to solve information problems in order
to function in an information society. This includes the ability to use
technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information,
and the possession of a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal
issues surrounding the access and use of information.
ETS has a demo page
that links to a Flash demo (that wasn’t working for me) that shows three
sample tasks:
1: “Display and Interpret Data:
Examinees create a visual representation of data to answer two research
questions.”
2: “Advanced Search: Examinees construct
an advanced search based on a complex information need.”
3: “Comparing Information: Examinees summarize
information from a variety of sources, then draw conclusions from their
summary.”
Hermit 😉
Students Face Difficulties As Information Literacy Gap Looms
The Curmudgeony Librarian writes “A commentary from Geoffrey Nunberg highlights the problems facing students today and illustrates the need for Information Literacy.
Nunberg writes that, the library–while at the forefront of the Information Literacy movement–should not be solely responsible for that kind of literacy. In his article Nunberg calls for a broad-spectrum effort in cultivating Information Literacy. This effort should reach across interdisciplinary lines and all levels of education today.”
Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions
Academic librarians were quick to react to the threat posed by Internet competition. In 1989, half a dozen years before the first official release of Netscape, they recognized the explosion in networked information and proposed “information literacy,” a reinvention of the educational function of the academic library.
Stanley Wilder goes on to criticize academic libraries for their choice and suggests a different method for teaching students.
See the full story at The Chronicle.
ACRL Information Literacy Standards endorsed by the Council of Independent Colleges
“The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has endorsed the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.”
I wonder if this will have a “trickle down” effect … if information standards will be endorsed and formally adopted in public schools.
See the complete article on the ALA website.
New librarian pushes information literacy
Mock Turtle writes “The Daily Bruin has a story on Gary Strong, the new university librarian at UCLA. Strong, having previously served as State Librarian of California, and as director of the Queens Borough Public Library System in New York, is spearheading a university-wide information literacy education effort, and keeping privacy and intellectual freedom concerns at the forefront.”
Tribnet.com Has A Similar Story on Nancy “Action Figure” Pearl a professional librarian who has been at Seattle Public Library for 10 years.
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