Information Literacy Essential Skills for the Information Age Dr. Mike Eisenberg

1. Information Literacy Essential Skills for the Information Age Dr. Mike Eisenberg University of Washington

2. Everything You Want to Know About Information Literacy …

3. Everything You Want to Know About Information Literacy …in 30 Minutes!

4. Why This is Important…

5. Agenda • Setting the Scene: The Challenges of Information Age • Essential Skills for the Information Age: Information Literacy • Implementation: Context, Context, Context!

6. Agenda • Setting the Scene: The Challenges of Information Age • Essential Skills for the Information Age: Information Literacy • Implementation: Context, Context, Context!

7. Problems • Everyone – information access, overload, quality • Students – gaining essential information knowledge & skills • Schools – providing meaningful learning opportunities • Society – providing opportunity for our children to succeed at the highest possible levels.

8. Information Problem #1: Overload “More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.” Reuters Magazine (1997, March/April)

9. Information Problem #1: Overload “The amount of new information stored on paper, film, magnetic, and optical media doubled in three years..” How Much Information, 2003, http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary

10. The Solution? • Speed things up? • Pack in more and more content? • Add more technology?

11. Speeding Up – The Solution?

12. Information Problem #2: Quality

13. 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 )

14. Quality 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! 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.

15. The Solution? • Discourage Web Use? • Pre-select resources? • Filtering?

16. Filtering – The Solution? bandeg0187r Illustration Works Royalty Free Photograph

17. Alternative Solution • To have students use information and technology effectively and efficiently for success in school, work, and their personal lives. • To focus on process as well as content. • For students to be lifelong learners and independent thinkers.

18. INFORMATION LITERACY

19. Agenda • Setting the Scene: The Challenges of Information Age • Essential Skills for the Information Age: Information Literacy • Implementation: Context, Context, Context!

20. Survey of Valued Skills • Problem Solving • Information Use • Speaking • Independent Work • Technology • Group Work • Writing • Reading www.washington.edu/oea/

21. 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

22. Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education 2001 www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

23. ACRL: Information Literacy Standards • The information literate student determines the nature and extent of the information needed. • The information literate student accesses needed information effectively and efficiently. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

24. ACRL: Information Literacy Standards • The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system. • The information literate student, individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

25. ACRL: Information Literacy Standards • The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html

26. Process Talking about …

27. For the YoungestThe Super3 Beginning Plan Middle Do End Review

28. For Older Students The Big6™ Skills 1. Task Definition 2. Info Seeking Strategies 3. Location & Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation

31. Agenda • Setting the Scene: The Challenges of Information Age • Essential Skills for the Information Age: Information & Technology Literacy • Implementation: Context, Context, Context!

32. Context #1 - the process • information problem solving (the Big6) #2 - technology in context • technology in the process #3 - curriculum • real needs in real situations • assignments: papers, reports, projects • units and lessons

33. Information problem-solving is not always linear, step-by-step. Context: The Process E S UI L&A ISS TD

34. Non-Linear TD E ISS S L&A UI

35. Not Linear TD S ISS L&A UI S UI S E ISS L&A UI S E

36. Not Linear

37. Context #2: Technology in Context

38. Technology - Out of Context • Electronic spreadsheets • Word processing • Spell/grammar check • E-Mail • Web browsing • Hyperstudio • Web page design • Upload/download • Instant Messaging • Web searching • Statistical analysis presentation • Online catalogs • Multimedia production (PowerPoint) • Database management systems • Electronic indexes • Chat • Video production • Inspiration • Group discussion • CAD/CAM • Use of operating systems • Copy/paste • Graphics • Brainstorming software • Telnet • ftp • PDAs • Algorithms • HTML • Programming

39. E-Mail Word processing Group discussion Online catalogs Electronic indexes Web browsing Web searching Electronic spreadsheets Upload/download HTML Spell/grammar check Brainstorming software PDAs Video production Algorithms Multimedia production (PowerPoint, Hyperstudio) ftp Chat Graphics Database management Inspiration Use of operating systems Web page design Copy/paste Statistical analysis presentation CAD/CAM Telnet Programming Instant Messaging Better, But Still Out of Context

40. Technology in Context

41. Exercise

42. Technology in Context

43. Info & Tech Literacy Content Area Curriculum Context #3: Curriculum

44. Integrated Program Info & Tech Literacy Course Curriculum Context #3: Curriculum

45. In Closing…

46. Problems • Everyone – information access, overload, quality • Students – gaining essential information knowledge & skills • Schools – providing meaningful learning opportunities • Society – providing opportunity for our youth to succeed at the highest possible levels.

47. Solution • Information literacy. • Recognized as essential. • Infused through education and society at all levels.

48. Thanks for listening!

49. Questions or comments?

50. Resources AASL Information Literacy Standards (1998) • www.ala.org/aasl/ip_nine.html AASL Learning Standards proposed (2007) • www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf ACRL Information Literacy Standards • www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html The Big6 • www.big6.com Fluency in Information Technology • http://www.nap.edu/books/030906399X/html ISTE/NETS-S • www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/students/pdf/NETS_for_Students_2007.pdf Janet Murray – matrix • http://janetsinfo.com/big6info.htm