Information Literacy 資訊素養

1. Information Literacy資訊素養 A prerequisite for participating effectively in the Information Society; and Basic human right of life long learning

2. Information Explosion • With millions of Web sites built, books, DVD and CD published every year, the amount of information increases rapidly in the forms of texts, graphics, images , sounds and videos. • On the Web, anyone can publish anything making it necessary that users browsing the Webs for information have the ability to discriminate between high quality, reliable information and misleading, inaccurate information and everything in between. • Searching and locating needed information become more difficult; this is termed as information overload 

3. Information Literacy – a definition • Faced with such an information explosion, students lack sufficient and efficient skills to use information and technology in learning • Educators propose this new learning goal - IL The knowledge, skills, ethics and values necessary for effective and critical use of information and technology

4. A Movement • THE PRAGUE DECLARATION (2003) • "TOWARDS AN INFORMATION LITERATE SOCIETY" • World summit on the information society (Geneva, 2003): Draft Declaration of Principles • Building the Information Society: a global challenge in the new Millennium

5. We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 for the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, declare our common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communitiesand peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

6. 信息社会世界高峰会议 2003年 日内瓦 – 2005年 突尼斯 我们，世界人民的代表，于2003年12月10日至12日汇聚在日内瓦，出席信息社会世界高峰会议第一阶段会议，宣告我们建设一个以人为本、具有包容性和以发展为目的的信息社会的共同愿望与承诺。在此信息社会中，人人可以创造、获取、使用和分享信息和知识，使个人、社区和各国人民均能充分发挥各自的潜力，促进实现可持续发展并提高生活质量。这一信息社会以《联合国宪章》的宗旨和原则为前提，并完全尊重和维护《世界人权宣言》。

7. The Information Literacy of a child • A ten-year old girl on holiday saved over 100 lives in Phuket, Thailand, when the tsunami hit in December 2004 because she was information literate. Details of this story were shared during a High Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning, in Alexandria, Egypt, on 6-9 November 2005. • Tilly Smith of Oxshott, England, having researched tsunamis two weeks prior to her holiday in geography class, recognized the early warning signs of an imminent tsunami, and took action. Because of her ability to use and apply the knowledge she had learned, the beach was cleared and no lives were lost.

8. There is not a unified term to denote information literacy !

9. Goal 1: Empowering Learners with IT Students will acquire the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes for lifelong learning and creative problem solving in the information age. They will use IT as an information retrieval, knowledge enquiry, communication, collaboration, analytical and personal development tool.

10. Framework of Information Literacy in the new IT in Education, Hong Kong SAR Reference: http://www.emb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno=1&nodeid=2679

11. Framework of the Information Literacy Study

12. The Scope of Information Literacy My understanding within the IT background

13. 0. The Need for Information • Awareness of the needs • Location/identification of information needs • Setting up information problems • Development of action plan to solve information problems independently or collaboratively

14. I. Searching Information • Primary Sources • Field trips, interviews, asking experts, surveys, experiments • Secondary and Tertiary Sources • An electronic encyclopedia • An electronic dictionary • Newsgroup on the Web • Search engines on the Web • Search methods – keywords or directories • Online library catalog • Development of information search strategies

15. II. Organizing Information • Recording information • A variety of organizational and recording methods and styles • Print, non-print materials or electronic information • Graphic organizer • Database • Bibliography

16. III. Processing Information • Word processing on report writing • Not purely text-based, visual information such as tables and graphics should be integrated • Number processing • Charts, tables, statistical methods • Presentation of information • PowerPoint/Flash – including animation • Listening and questioning skills • Delivery/publication of information • Web pages, posters, booklets and other information promotion materials

17. IV. Evaluating Information • Criteria: authority, relevance, objectivity, currency, coverage, and accuracy • Primary sources and secondary sources • Judgment of adequate information to solve the information problems, awareness of missing information • Judgment of evaluation by peers

18. V. Effective Use of Information • Originality and synthesis (no copy and paste) • Accuracy and comprehensiveness without bias • Creativity • Crediting information sources correctly • Use of bibliographic standards for citing sources

19. VI. Information Activities • Integrated and contextualised activities • Project learning in schools • Decision making and information in personal life • Democracy and information in the society • Plagiarism in assignment • Intellectual property right • Ethics on using information • Consequence of misuse of information • Leaning community • …