INFORMATION LITERACY: Information Literacy: A Clarification
David P. Dillard
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INFORMATION LITERACY:
Information Literacy: A Clarification
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Information Literacy: A Clarification
by Linda Langford
From Now On
The Educational Technology Journal
http://www.fno.org/oct98/clarify.html
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This paper will also appear as a chapter in a forthcoming Australian book
on Information Literacy edited by James Henri and Karen Bonanno.
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Excerpt
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Introduction
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Information literacy! One should be forgiven if one becomes confused when
confronted with educational writing and discussion on information
literacy. Research in the area of information literacy is plentiful if one
accepts the multiplicity of terms that could define this phrase. However,
one could just as easily come through the research and still be asking,
"What is it I am trying to understand, let alone teach?"
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A plethora of writing and lectures about conceptualising, developing, and
implementing information literacy fills whole conferences and whole books,
and indeed adds significantly to the information traffic on the Internet.
Yet it is apparent that, like the elephant in the Indian parable about the
blind men, information literacy is defined differently by various schools
of thought.
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From where did this term emanate to occupy so much discussion? Is it a
transfiguration, a concept that is age-old but given new clothes to fit in
with the educational speak of the Information Age? Is information literacy
merely an embellished view of the traditional understanding of literacy?
Or has it become a full transformation of an educational tenet in the
light of evolving understandings in learning theory?
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Is it a concept or a process? Is it an embodiment of essential skills that
have only had name changes over the decades? Or is it a new literacy that
has been transformed from existing literacies to complement the emerging
technologies for which the Information Age students must be skilled?
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Why have not the understandings and skills that inform information
literacy become embedded into the classroom practices of teachers and
educational systems? Is it because information literacy is understood as
something that is teacher librarian-oriented and not part of the general
curriculum?
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Topics Covered in This Paper
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Information literacy in the education arena
Literacy: A short history
Transformation of literacy
Literacy or literacies
A working definition
Whose responsibility?
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Information Literacy: A Clarification
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