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Digital Media and Learning
http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.2029199/k.BFC9/Home.htm Digital Media and Learning The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth. |
 
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UK Children Go Online : Report
http://www.children-go-online.net/ UK Children Go Online : Report The project explores the nature and meaning of children's internet use and maps emerging patterns of attitudes and practices across diverse contexts and social groups in the UK. It is part of the ESRC's e-Society Programme and is based at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/characteristics.htm Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline The Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline attempts to articulate elements of exemplary information literacy programs for undergraduate students at four-year and two-year institutions. |
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Papers and Presentations concerning Information Literacy
http://bulldogs.tlu.edu/mdibble/doril/papers.html Papers and Presentations concerning Information Literacy from the Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy |
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21st Century Literacy and Technology in K-8 Classrooms
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=17 Twenty-first Century Literacy and Technology in K-8 Classrooms June Brown, Jan Bryan, and Ted Brown examine the concept of literacy, which in the 21st century has expanded to include multiple forms: global, visual, and information literacy among them. The authors argue that, in the digital age, technology plays a critical role in advancing literacy: It allows students to create and control their own learning environments, communicate across international channels, do research independently, and present knowledge creatively. The challenge for educators is to help students mine technology resources and tools to make best use of their learning opportunities. |
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Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=whrygh0wq0n8ifue91dpb2enf090vqi0 Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions The premise of information literacy is that the supply of information has become overwhelming, and that students need a rigorous program of instruction in research or library-use skills, provided wholly or in part by librarians. A survey conducted by the Association of College and Research Libraries six years later found that 22 percent of U.S. academic libraries reported running some kind of information-literacy program, and in the years since, the idea has become the profession's accepted approach to its educational function. But information literacy remains the wrong solution to the wrong problem facing librarianship. It mistakes the nature of the Internet threat, and it offers a response at odds with higher education's traditional mission. Information literacy does nothing to help libraries compete with the Internet, and it should be discarded. |
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Googlizers vs. Resistors
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA485756 Googlizers vs. Resistors Library leaders debate our relationship with search engines It is a Google world, and librarians just live in it. Really? Certainly Google's famously simple interface, ease of use, and enormous popularity challenge librarians to think about their users' needs in very different ways. |
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Journal of Digital Information
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Journal of Digital Information : Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments JoDI published its first papers in April 1997, when it was one of very few electronic-only journals. It continues as an electronic-only journal today. JoDI has over 3500 registered users who have signed up to receive email alerts of new issues. |
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The New Literacy
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47102021 The New Literacy A fundamental question for everyone involved in education ?administrators, teachers, parents, and students ?in this time of rapid change is, "What do students really need to be learning today in order to be ready for an unpredictable future?" Whether we like it or not, with the information age comes a whole new set of basic skills. Following, we will take a look at how the traditional 3 Rs, naturally and out of necessity, evolve into 4 Es to define literacy in an increasingly, and soon to be exclusively, digital and networked world. |
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Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/informationpower/InformationLiteracyStandards_final.pdf Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning : Standards and Indicators Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning provides a conceptual framework and broad guidelines for describing the information- literate student. The standards consist of three categories, nine standards, and twenty-nine indicators. The core learning outcomes that are most directly related to the services provided by school library media programs are found in the three standards and thirteen indicators in the ?nformation literacy?category. The |
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Education for an Information Age
http://www.pitt.edu/~edindex/InfoAge5index.html Education for an Information Age he textbook, Education for an Information Age: Teaching in the Computerized Classroom, 5th ed., is now available online. It includes links to tutorials for Microsoft Office 2000 and Office XP. Tutorials for Office 2003 are in preparation and will be freely available online by the end of August 2004. An extensive set of Web Resources for teachers and students, including indexed links to several thousand Web sites useful in K-12 education is also provided. The audience for Education for an Information Age is the pre-service/in-service K-12 teacher. The primary goal of the text is to help you incorporate the computer into your K-12 curriculum. A secondary goal is to support your endeavors towards becoming the most effective educator you can be in the context of the K-12 classroom of today and tomorrow. |
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Too much information
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/10/1068329472603.html Too much information "One has to draw the distinction between knowledge and information," Greenfield told the ABC's Hamish Robertson. "We are in a time when people can sit in front of the screen and get bombarded with facts and sometimes that's confused for education. But I think that what we owe it to our young people to do is to help them ask questions." |
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Information Literacy Articles at LibraryInstruction.Com
http://www.libraryinstruction.com/info-lit.html Information Literacy Articles at LibraryInstruction.Com High School Students and Their Use of the Web for Research | Understanding Information Literacy | Evaluating Online Educational Materials for Use in Instruction | What Should Parents Know About Information Literacy? | Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning | Information Literacy and Teacher Education | Learning and Teaching Information Technology Skills in Context | Information Literacy: Search Strategies, Tools, and Resources | |
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Future Search Tools and Web Search Research
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,91841,00.html "Future Search" Tools and Web Search Research "Future Search" Tools and Web Search Research Adele Howe, a computer science professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and Gabriel Somlo, a CSU graduate student, have built a proof of concept called QueryTracker, a software agent that sits between a user and a conventional search engine and looks for information of recurring interest, such as the latest news about a user's chronic illness. QueryTracker submits a user's query to the search engine once a day and returns results from new Web pages and pages that have changed since the previous search. |
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