Monday 18 April 2011

So what's information literacy then?

OK, before I have done any readings here is an attempted definition:
Information literacy being able to access, interpret and make decisions about the usefulness of information.

So therefore you will need to be able to:
  1. get to the information.  This may mean books, posters, Internet, online, talking to people.  All sorts of places.  Can you get to the info?
  2. figure out what the info is saying. 
  3. Do all those higher-order processing skills like evaluate, interpret, classify - decide if this info is what you want or not.
So there we go.

So let's see if this changes as I start reading a bit more.

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