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Define information literacy and describe the skills information literate students will have.
﻿Hi guys. Just throwing a few ideas down...

Being 'information literate' is being able to apply, and reflect on, the use of a range of information skills, across a range of contexts, using a range of technological tools appropriate to the task. It is having the ability to think about one's own thinking, and to apply this thinking to one's own learning through time.

Students who are information literate turn information into knowledge, make decisions in applying this knowledge to solve problems, and evaluate the effectiveness of these decisions (Bloom's taxonomy).

﻿Kate Some more from the same source- alia - wendy   Information literacy skills include:
 * Information literacy**

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 * 1) defining information needs
 * 2) locating information
 * 3) selecting information
 * 4) organising information
 * 5) creating and sharing information
 * 6) evaluating information and the information process.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> Source: ALIA/ASLA 2001, //<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">Learning for the future: developing information services in schools //<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">, 2  <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">nd <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">ed. Curriculum Corporation, Carlton. <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> Within each of these six steps, there is a matrix for the information literacy skills and the ICT literacy skills that need to be explicitly taught for each level from 1 to 6 (representing the levels in the Australian Curriculum). Teaching information literacy skills and working with teachers to embed these skills into the curriculum and into student learning is a core focus for teacher librarians. Teacher librarianship courses provide extensive training in this specialist area. Knowledge of the curriculum, teaching strategies and learning styles are integrated with knowledge of information systems and technologies. Information literacy is the foundation of lifelong learning and is a basic survival skill for personal, educational and economic success in the 21 <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">st <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">century. Information literacy promotes social inclusion.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> A thriving national and global culture, economy and democracy will best be advanced by people who are empowered in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion within a range of cultural contexts. <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Life Long Learning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">, Egypt, 2005 __http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/High-Level-Colloquium.pdf__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;"> The exponential growth of electronic information resources is increasing the need for information skills training. Information literacy skills give individuals the capability to recognise a need for information and access, locate, select, organise, present and evaluate that information efficiently and effectively. Effective learners are people who are able to find and use information as required. It can be said that effective learners are those who are information literate. Schools without a trained teacher librarian are less able to provide a learning environment in which educational and social goals are maximised for the benefit of students and the nation.

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