Information Literacy

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confused teacher
Confusion!

New curricula...new achievement indicators...new web tools...new expectations for teaching and learning with technology.

Students no longer need to rely on teachers, textbooks and libraries to access the information they need to make decisions or complete assignments. They live in a world of immediate communication where they can find the answers to the questions that intrigue them. As well, the read/write web , also known as Web 2.0 , where individuals have the opportunity to be not merely consumers of information but also producers requires educators to reevaluate the skills that students need to be successful learners and ultimately contributing citizens.

The major changes in the way our students access and use information lead to the question, "in a world radically changed by new and emerging technology what are the skills that will allow our students to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information?"

We can begin to respond to this question by first understanding that a definition of information literacy is a constantly evolving concept.