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Effective Information Literacy for Learning Success

Explore the importance of information literacy for society and libraries, how it's best learned, and its impact on students, schools, and librarians. Discover solutions to information overload and ways to improve literacy programs. Dive into strategies, technologies, and curriculums for building effective users of ideas and information.

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Effective Information Literacy for Learning Success

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  1. Mike EisenbergThe Information SchoolUniversity of Washington Information Literacy: Ensuring Effective Use of Information

  2. www.big6.org All Big6 resources available from: Linworth 800-786-5017 linworth@linworthpublishing.com

  3. Information Literacy • Why is information literacy important – for society? – for libraries? • What do we mean by information literacy? • How is information literacy best learned?

  4. Why This is Important…

  5. “To ensure that students...are effective users of ideas and information.” Why? Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, AASL and AECT, 1998.

  6. So What? • What does this have to do with me? • Is this what libraries are really about today? YES!

  7. Problems • Everyone – information access, overload, quality • Students – gaining essential information knowledge & skills • Schools – providing meaningful learning opportunities • Librarians – becoming central “players” (delivery and recognition)

  8. Solution • Active, engaged, vibrant library programs • Highly knowledgeable and skilled librarians • Programs and professionals directly focused on learning – in all types of libraries

  9. Example – Master’s CurriculumUniversity of Washington • Required Course: LIS 560 Instructional and Training Strategies for Information Professionals • Develops knowledge and skills in instruction and training functions for library and information settings. • Issues and strategies for learning and teaching. • Design, development, and evaluation of information and technology literacy programs. • Addresses the needs of users when designing and delivering instruction.

  10. Information Problem #1:Overload • Information overload, information anxiety • Just too much “stuff”; people can’t keep up.

  11. Information Overload “More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.” (Source: Large, P., The Micro Revolution, Revisited, 1984)

  12. Information Overload Today, a daily newspaper has more print information in it than a person would come across in an entire lifetimein the 17th Century. David Lewis “Introduction to Dying for Information,” www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996

  13. Solutions to Information Overload? • Speed things up? • Pack in more and more content? • Add more technology?

  14. Speeding Up – The Solution?

  15. Speeding Up – The Solution?

  16. Solutions to Information Overload? • Speed things up? • Pack in more and more content? • Add more technology?

  17. The Solution – Technology?

  18. The Solution – Technology?

  19. OVERLOAD www.edc.org/hec/ The World Wide Web www.lll.hawaii.edu/nflrc/ www.ncddr.org The World Wide Web www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/ www.ukans.edu www.csn.net/RMC/star/ www.ucpa.org/atfsc.html www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/flc/ home.gvi.net/~edoig/western/ carla.acad.umn.edu/ www.cec.sped.org/cl-menu.htm sccac.lacoe.edu www.netaxs.com/~edoig/home.html www.osc.edu/CSNP/GLARRC.HTML polyglot.cal.msu.edu/clear/home.html www.ihdi.uky.edu/projects/MSRRC/index.html www.askeric.org www.enc.org www.naric.com/naric/ www.edc.org/FSC/MIH/ www.aed.org/special.ed/frc.html www.vais.net/~edoig/ www.ed.gov larcnet.sdsu.edu// www.educ.drake.edu/rc/RRC/mprrc.html www.prel.hawaii.edu sfa.ed.gov home.gvi.net/~edoig/ geminfo.org www.educ.iastate.edu/currinst/nflrc/nflrc.html www.ticllc.net/~gpiacesi/ trio.ume.maine.edu/~nceoa/nceoa.html www.resna.org/resna/hometa1.htm www.cal.org/cal/html/nflrc.htm

  20. OVERLOAD www.edc.org/hec/ www.lll.hawaii.edu/nflrc/ www.ncddr.org www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/ www.ukans.edu www.csn.net/RMC/star/ www.ucpa.org/atfsc.html www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/flc/ home.gvi.net/~edoig/western/ carla.acad.umn.edu/ www.cec.sped.org/cl-menu.htm sccac.lacoe.edu www.netaxs.com/~edoig/home.html www.osc.edu/CSNP/GLARRC.HTML polyglot.cal.msu.edu/clear/home.html www.ihdi.uky.edu/projects/MSRRC/index.html www.askeric.org www.enc.org www.naric.com/naric/ www.edc.org/FSC/MIH/ www.aed.org/special.ed/frc.html www.vais.net/~edoig/ www.ed.gov larcnet.sdsu.edu// www.educ.drake.edu/rc/RRC/mprrc.html www.prel.hawaii.edu sfa.ed.gov home.gvi.net/~edoig/ geminfo.org www.educ.iastate.edu/currinst/nflrc/nflrc.html www.ticllc.net/~gpiacesi/ trio.ume.maine.edu/~nceoa/nceoa.html www.resna.org/resna/hometa1.htm www.cal.org/cal/html/nflrc.htm

  21. Overload: Example “Should my child be immunized? Are immunizations safe?” • Found 454,150 possible sites through Altavista. • If spent 5 minutes on each, would take over 37,000 hours to review. • Assuming at least 100-200 that appear to be right on target. Using these meaningfully could easily take an additional 50 - 100 hours. • Total Potential time to spend: 635 days or almost 2 years!!!!!

  22. It’s not print vs. digital Books Technology Library

  23. It’s not air vs. water Air Water Life

  24. However… • The amount of information available digitally will continue to increase dramatically. • The percent of digital information and services used by people will continue to increase dramatically.

  25. ABSOLUTELY!! Our Time Is Now!!! Will we need libraries? • When almost everything is digital? • When services, resources, & info are increasingly provided virtually?

  26. Information Overload • A Major Problem for Most People • A Major Opportunity for Libraries!

  27. Problems = Opportunitiesfor Libraries RE Information overload; libraries can: • help people make sense of the glut of information through services (e.g., the 24/7 digital reference desk). • put new technologies to work. • fill the digital divide. • Teach essential information literacy skills!

  28. Problems = Opportunitiesfor Libraries TECHNOLOGY

  29. Computers today are one million times more powerful than those 20 years ago.

  30. 20 Years Ago: 1983 • Apple II • IBM PC • Compaq “portable” • Mainframe, centralized control and services dominated

  31. In 20 years computers will be one million times more powerful than today!

  32. Today: Developing Information Technologies • Tablet PC • Wireless • Convergence devices • Wearable computers

  33. Information Problem #2: Quality

  34. Quality • Researchers (Rand) checked out 6 health Web sites and 12 sites dedicated to specific diseases. • How frequently Web sites are complete and accurate: U.S. News & World Report, June 4, 2001 v130 i22 p10

  35. Quality Breast cancer 63% Depression 44% Obesity 37% Childhood asthma 33% U.S. News & World Report, June 4, 2001 v130 i22 p10

  36. Quality “More than 2/3 of teens said within the last year that they use the Internet as their major resource when doing a big project for school..." Lester, Will "High School Students Love Net for Research." Syracuse Post Standard, 8/21/01 (from AP )

  37. In a study of 500 sites used by Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research! Information OverloadProblem: Quality Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html Colhoun, Alexander. "But - - I Found It on the Internet!" Christian Science Monitor. 25 April 2000: 16.

  38. Quality Advice on the Net: • The top legal advice person on Askme.com turned out to be a 14 year old whose only legal training was from Court TV and cop shows. • But – just as interesting, when he was finally “uncovered,” • Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, July 2001; also Next (Norton, 2001)

  39. Quality Advice on the Net: • The top legal advice person on Askme.com turned out to be a 14 year old whose only legal training was from Court TV and cop shows. • But – just as interesting, when he was finally “uncovered,” the demand for his advice still continued! • Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, July 2001; also Next (Norton, 2001)

  40. The Solution? • Discourage Web Use? • Filtering?

  41. Alternative Solution • Helping people to be discriminating users of information! • Helping people learn essential information & technology skills! INFORMATION LITERACY

  42. Information Literacy “To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” American Library Association, 1989

  43. Information Literacy • Beyond location & access • Beyond keyboarding or any particular software product • The full range of information skills & technology skills within the information process.

  44. A Widely Recognized Need

  45. Survey of Valued SkillsFall 2001 • Problem Solving • Information Use • Speaking • Independent Work • Technology • Group Work • Writing • Reading www.washington.edu/oea/9811.htm

  46. Survey of UW Students Rated their own competence as “very good” or “excellent”:

  47. Information Literacy • Why is information literacy important – for society? – for libraries? • What do we mean by information literacy? • How is information literacy best learned?

  48. Information Literacy Models • AASL Information Literacy Standards • www.ala.org/aasl/ip_nine.html • ACRL Information Literacy Standards • www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

  49. K – 12

  50. AASL – Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning • Information Literacy • Independent Learning • Social Responsibility http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

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