Information Literacy ????

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Information Literacy????

• A prerequisite for participating effectively in
  the Information Society and
• Basic human right of life long learning

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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 

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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

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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

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• 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, communities and 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.

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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.

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There is not a unified term to denote information
literacy !
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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.
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Framework of Information Literacy in the new IT
in Education, Hong Kong SAR

• Reference
• http//www.emb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno1nodeid2
  679

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Framework of the Information Literacy Study
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The Scope of Information Literacy

• My understanding within the IT background

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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