INFORMATION LITERACY : DATABASES : HEALTH LITERACY : DISABILITIES : EDUCATION : RESEARCH SKILLS: Its Not Just Book Literacy and Computer Literacy Any More
David P. Dillard
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A member of the disabilities list responded to the person seeking input
regarding health literacy and disabilities. The response focused on the
belief that the phrase health literacy was inappropriate and contrived,
unlike the concepts cited by this poster of book literacy and computer
literacy. This poster urged another way to describe this concept as this
health literacy just does not compute to paraphrase closely the phrase he
used in discussing the inappropriateness of the health literacy phrase.
I provided this response to the list.
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:17:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jw...@temple.edu>
Cc: The Disability-Research Discussion List <DISABILIT...@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Health Literacy - What Do You Think?
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The factor here that merits consideration is that book literacy, which I
imagine is similar to the general term literacy and involves the basic
abilities to read and perhaps write, book literacy and computer literacy are by
far not the only literacies discussed in the present world. A very big field
that is right behind literacy and up there with computer literacy is the field
of information literacy.
Google Scholar
Results 1 - 10 of about 31,800 for "information literacy".
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%
22information+literacy%22&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Many colleges and universities are devoting increased resources and curriculum
requirements into making information literacy a substantial part of their
undergraduate programs, intensifying attention to student ability to find
information, do research and navigate electronic resources and electronic
information finding tools. Specialized information literacy subdivisions are
developing that focus on such skills in specific fields and in many cases focus
on the general public's ability to find needed knowledge in those fields, hence
concepts like financial literacy and health literacy. It is sad that very many
high school students graduate without having been made aware that in the United
States most public libraries provide database access that covers a range of
subject fields and provides abstracted source listings and full text journal
and magazine content for use in their high school research assignments. Many
K-12 teachers are completely usaware of this database availability in the U.S.
and Canada and I suspect in Great Britain as well. Many of these teachers have
no training or skill in the use of these bibliographic databases and could not
teach their use. Hence many students arrive in college thinking Web Search
Google is the only place to seek information and do searching for pertinent
research topic sources. Those teaching information literacy skills at the
college level have their work cut out for them, if indeed they know how to use
these tools. Unfortunately, much of the literature about information
literature has little to say about the use of bibliographic databases.
Web Google
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,450,000 for "information literacy".
Results 1 - 10 of about 294,000 for "information literacy" and (database OR
databases).
Google Scholar
Results 1 - 10 of about 32,400 for "information literacy".
Results 1 - 10 of about 12,300 for "information literacy" and (database OR
databases).
There is more about databases and information literacy on Net-Gold.
Results 1 - 10 of about 11,700 for ("information literacy" OR database OR
databases) and "net-gold" and "temple.edu".
<http://www.google.com/search?q=(%22information+literacy%22+OR+database+
OR+databases)+and+%22net-gold%22+and+%22temple.edu%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
This post is related to this earlier Net-Gold post.
HEALTH LITERACY :
DISABILITIES:
Health Literacy and Disabilities:
A Topic for Meet the Googles Options
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold/
browse_thread/thread/c02b8fe943347787>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
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