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An Information Literacy Curriculum
The authors of the New Literacy Wiki ask, "how does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century?"
Technology is changing swiftly and each day brings something new. It is impossible to create a scope and sequence of technology skills that will stay fresh and usable. Instead the focus must be on the thinking skills that students need to able to use the technology effectively. As is stated on the New Literacy Wiki,
Instead of asking the question "What technology skills must a students have to face the 21st century?" should we not be asking "What thinking and literacy skills must a students have to face the 21st century?" These skills are not tied to any particular software or technology-type, but rather aim to provide students with the thinking skill and thus the opportunity to succeed no matter what their futures hold.
Creating an information literacy curriculum is a difficult process but in doing so the skills within the stages of the research process: preparing, finding, using, sharing and evaluating are identified.
 
An integrated Curriculum - An integrated curriculum addresses outcomes as part of a whole so that learning is both meaningful and transferable.‘Curriculum integration does not abandon the skills and understandings that are specific to the individual Key Learning Areas, but is a means of enhancing those areas that cross Key Learning Areas.