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INFORAMTION LITERACY.

THE MOST BASIC OF BASICS.

By Pauline Hillhouse.
INFORMATION LITERACY.

 Information Literacy is important for our children's


future so they can succeed.

 We need to provide the skills so that the people in


the future can understand what information literacy is.
Information Literacy.

Problems with overload of information.

 2/3 of our teenagers will always go to internet first


for their research.

 What we need to do is re program our young people


so that they don't solely rely on the internet.
Information Literacy

 The solution would be for students to become independent


thinkers.

To be information literate you need to recognize the


information that is needed and use it effectively.
Information Literacy.

 For younger Students (Primary)

 Beginning is to PLAN.

 Middle is to DO.

 End is to REVIEW.
Information Literacy.

 Implementation CONTEXT,CONTEXT,CONTEXT.

 Problem Solving

 Process Technology

 Real needs for real situations.


Information Literacy

 The big 6 can be in any order.

 Task Definination

 Information seeking strategies

 Location and access

 Use of information

 Synthesis

 Evaluation
Information Literacy

 Task = Brainstorming and emailing

 Information = Online Library, Blogs

 Location = Search engines

 Use of information = Presentation software

 Synthesis = Presentation software

 Evaluation = Spell check etc......

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