CHAPTER 6

Information Literacy and

Lifelong Learner
SHAIRAH VENICE

JESIEMER

AILA
ADREA
Contents :
The Information-Literate persons views information as
part of a larger social vision.

The information-literate person is a motivated lifelong

learner.

The information- literate person knows how to find how to

find, evaluate, and use informaton in various context
What is Information Literacy?
 Information literacy

is knowing when and why you need

information, where to find it, and how to
evaluate it, use, and communicate it an
ethical manner.
According to him, information
literacy is not just the concern of
the individual but is “crucial to
issues of economic development,
health, citizenship, and quality of
life.”
Information Literacy for the 21st Century

There was a time when it was not possible to ask a

question and simply “Google” the answer. Anyone who
had questions had only a limited number of time-tested
ways to find answers.
Information Literacy for the 21st Century

Today, in addition to library skills which remain

vital in the development of literacy, the information
and communication technologies (ICT) of the
twenty-first century have allowed for the exponential
accumulation of information, as well as
multiplication of ways to access information.
mind mapping is a way to organize
ideas by visualizing and diagrammin
them.
 Mark #1
The Information-Literate Person Views
Information as part of a Larger social Views
 These lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Rock (1934)
give us insight into the ultimate goal of information literacy.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?
The Dutch KIT Institute summarizes this goal in the schema of the data-information-
knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy.

Information is made up of Knowledge is information

Data are raw facts
facts understood in particular that is personally useful in
context(s). guiding decisions and
actions.
After “a process of reflection,” wisdom is
gained when the purpose of knowledge as a
social good is understood.
 THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF
INFORMATION LITERACY IS
not simply to gain more information
but to gain the wisdom essential for
making life worth living.
it is the keyword in information
literacy.

authority emanates from only one source

and is not supported, contested, debated,
and negotiated by other sources of
authority.
NOLI ME TANGERE
NOLI ME TANGERE
Noli Me Tangere (1887)

one of the book that

NOLI ME TANGERE
Rizal used to give
information to the
Filipino’s.
 Ferdinand
Bluementritt

NOLI ME TANGERE
recommended Rizal to read
Antonio de Morga’s very rare
book Sucesos de las
Filipinas (1609).
 1888

A year after Noli’s publication,

NOLI ME TANGERE
Mariano Ponce wrote Rizal in
London, asking him to
manage a newspaper
 Bayaning 3rd World
(1999)
Mike de Leon’s film-within-a

NOLI ME TANGERE
film. Filmmaker-protagonist
remarks that all of Rizal’s life
was devoted to reading,
writing, and traveling, and
there is nothing cinematic
about his life.
 1892

Father Pablo Pastells asked

NOLI ME TANGERE
Rizal while he is in Dapitan
why he had wasted his life,
when he could have been
anything he wanted to.
American Library Association

Association for Educational Communication and

Technology

link their standards of information

literacy with social responsibility.
 QUESTION:
Where can you access
information?
We can access information through
WhereQUESTION:
can we generate new
information?
We can generate information through
 Government Agencies and Businesses are
expected to prioritize public good and private
benefits, and this applies to their use of
information channels and the kind of
information that they make available.
upholds the constitutional right of people to information on
matters of public concerns.

•Germany •Sweden
•Denmark •Australia
•Norway •Canada
•Netherland •United
•Finland States
•Thailand •Ecuador
•Japan
 punishes officials that furnish requesters of public information.

bodies have been established to investigate FOI-related complaints.

adopted by the participant of the High Level
Colloquium held on November 2005

correctly emphasizes the intertwining of lifelong

learning and information literacy.
 Lies at the core of lifelong learning.

Enables individuals, communities, and nation to attain

their goals and to take advantage of emerging
opportunities in the evolving global environment for
shared benefit.
behavioral economist who argues that
today’s interconnected world has turn
people into infovores.
behavioral economist who argues that
today’s interconnected world has turn
people into infovores.
Cowen’s “the emotional power of
personal blends” makes “work and
learning a lot more fun.”
“Your personal interest and passions, no matter how
varied and seemingly disconnected they are, can help you
achieve information literacy.”
Interesting example of the coming together of
advance in ICT and the pursuit of self-motivated
learning.
Web app that allows collaborative modification of
content from the browser, sometimes through
WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)
editors.
 QUESTION:
What do you think is the most
popular wiki in the world?
most popular wiki where global community can
contribute in writing user-generated encyclopedia
entries.
allow a certain degree of flexibility for self-
directed and self-paced learning.

provide opportunities for people to upgrades

skills, expand their qualifications and grow.
 MARK #3
The Information-Literate
Person Knows How to Find,
Evaluate, and Use Information
in Various Contexts
A INFORMATION
LITERATE PERSON IS:

DETECTIVE
COLLECTOR
VISIONARY
VISIONARY
 VISIONARY

The information-literate person is a VISIONARY.

Vision is obscured by misinformation, so the visionary

is always trying to rise above such situation.
A INFORMATION
LITERATE PERSON IS:

DETECTIVE
COLLECTOR
VISIONARY
COLLECTOR
 COLLECTOR

The information-literate person is also a COLLECTOR

No one is telling her to be so, but her mind is alert to

gain a vast variety of information which may or may
not have immediate use.
A INFORMATION
LITERATE PERSON IS:

DETECTIVE
COLLECTOR
VISIONARY
DETECTIVE
 DETECTIVE

But the information-literate person should also be a

DETECTIVE.

The visionary needs to be active in pursuing a missing

link of information.
3 MODELS that
systemize the
process of asking
questions and
trying to find
answers
 The nine-question theory:
1. WHAT do I need to do?
2. WHERE could I go?
MICHA 3. HOW do I get to the information?
Y 4. WHICH resources shall I use?
EL EOR
5. HOW shall I use the resources?
H
MARLAON T 6. WHAT should I make a record of?
TI )”
NDES 80s 7. HAVE I got all the information I
QU (19 need?
NE
“NI 8. HOW should I present it?
9. WHAT have I achieved?
 THE BIG 6
1. TASK DEFINITION MIKE
2. INFORMATION-SEEKING EISENBERG &
STRATEGIES “T BOB
HE
3. LOCATION AND SOURCES BERKOWITZ
B
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4. USE OF INFORMATION 6”
5. SYNTHESIS
6. EVALUATION
 PLUS
REBECCA
Purpose
JONES (2007)
- Ask the right questions
and why are you asking them. “4 ELEMENTS MNEMONIC
Location PLUS”
- Determine all or as many as possible
information sources and access the most
relevant ones as much as you can.
Use
- Analyze and evaluate information according to relevancy and accuracy and
select what is useful.
Self-evaluation
- Evaluate your information-seeking process at every step and as a whole in order
to make your information-seeking practice more and more effective and efficient.
WHAT KINDS OF INFORMATION ARE
AVAILABLE OUT THERE?

Finding We can distinguish between;

Informatio
n

Tertiary or
Primary Secondary
third-hand
Sources Sources
sources
WHAT KINDS OF INFORMATION ARE
AVAILABLE OUT THERE?

Primary
Sources
 Primary
Sources

These are original, reliable, and/or first-hand

information.
WHAT KINDS OF INFORMATION ARE
AVAILABLE OUT THERE?

Finding We can distinguish between;

Informatio
n

Tertiary or
Primary Secondary
third-hand
Sources Sources
sources
Secondary
Sources
 Secondary
Sources

Are filtered information or interpretation of primary

sources.
WHAT KINDS OF INFORMATION ARE
AVAILABLE OUT THERE?

Finding We can distinguish between;

Informatio
n

Tertiary or
Primary Secondary
third-hand
Sources Sources
sources
Tertiary or third-hand sources
 Tertiary or
third-hand
sources

Includes citations lists, bibliographies, indexes,

books of abstracts, and other finding aids which
can point to either secondary or primary sources.
 DIFFERENTIATE

SCHOLARL
POPULAR
Y
SOURCES
SOURCES
 SCHOLARLY SOURCES

Are information produced by experts in the field, such as art

historians, philosophers, or sociologists.

Scholarly Articles or books are not published without first being reviewed by
other experts, a process which is called peer reviewing.
 DIFFERENTIATE

SCHOLARL
POPULAR
Y
SOURCES
SOURCES
 POPULAR SOURCES

Include newspapers, magazines, and the like.

These are information sources that are more accessible to the

general public.
 Distinguish

PRINT AND
DIGITAL
ANALOG
SOURCES
SOURCES
 PRINT AND ANALOG SOURCES

Print and Analog materials include nondigital books, magazines,

recordings, photographs, motion picture, art works, among others.
 Distinguish

PRINT AND
DIGITAL
ANALOG
SOURCES
SOURCES
 DIGITAL SOURCES

These are accessible through the Internet or as electronic sources

in libraries.
 Maximizing Web Searches

Search Engines
• Designed to search information.

• Wanting to find as much information links as possible, some people opt

to do meta-searching, or simultaneously searching in multiple engines.

Boolean Logic
• Named after George Boole, inventor of Boolean Algebra.
Evaluating Information
• Every piece of information must be evaluated and validated before it
can be admitted as knowledge.

Relevance
• Is the information before me relevant to what I need to know now?

Purpose or nature of source

• What was the purpose of the information in its original context?
Style
• Is the language used for a general or a specialized audience/ reader?

Scope and Depth

• Is the information only an overview or focused only on one aspect of the
topic.

Timeliness
• When was this information generated?
Authority
• Who is the person responsible for the information?

Documentation, Corroboration, Observation

• What are the source of the information?

Using Information
• Once you have gathered and evaluated your information, you can now
use it.
THANK YOU!!!