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Information Literacy

Iona Presentation College

+Setting the Scene :Background

+Shift Happens

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+Why is Information Literacy Important?

“Information literacy is a survival skill for life in the Information Age, a vital underpinning to lifelong learning, and critical for a thriving democracy.” (Harding, 2008)

The Melbourne Declaration

The Australian Curriculum

General Capabilities (Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT Skills)

+Why is Information Literacy Important? “Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong

learning. It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning.” (Pinto, 2008)

+Melbourne Declaration

The Melbourne Declaration identifies essential skills for twenty-first century learners – in literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology (ICT), thinking, creativity, teamwork and communication. It describes individuals who can manage their own wellbeing, relate well to others, make informed decisions about their lives, become citizens who behave with ethical integrity, relate to and communicate across cultures, work for the common good and act with responsibility at local, regional and global levels.

+Australian Curriculum

Within the new Australian Curriculum, the General Capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will assist students to live and work in the 21st century. ,(Australian Curriculum 2012)

+ICT Literate v’s Information Literate

Students have grown up with computers and the Internet and are comfortable and confident in using them, however, research shows that they are not very information literate. (Coombes, 2009)

“Much of the research” by secondary school students “appeared to be mainly information retrieval and repackaging”. Hopkins (2005)

+What is Information Literacy?

International: UNESCO

National: ALIA

ANZIL

Iona

+Australian Curriculum

MYCEETYA

Australian Curriculum

Goals for Schooling

+Initial goal

Create a unified approach to Information Literacy across the college with a common research method and integrated training of the skills.

Research: Learning new skills and knowledge takes

reinforcement. “Learning to be information literate involves practicing the use of the system, or the steps, when engaged in learning tasks” (Bruce, 2004). If a school has a unified approach to information literacy, with a common research method and integrated training of the skills, then success is more likely.

+Benefits

An online repertoire of resources: templates, guidelines, instructions, podcasts etc.

Students, teachers, parents and tutors can access resources (don’t have to design your own?

Resources hyperlinked to your assignments. (show example)

Students will not have to meet all different requirements of different teachers

Skills are reinforced in students to ensure they are Information Literate

Ensure AC and other educational requirements are met by embedding skills.

+Where we’re at now!

Draft Information Plan

Stage: Feasibility- proposal, approval

Stage 2: Information Plan

+Change Activity!

Line up in 2 long rows facing another person.

Card Sorting ActivityInformation Literacy stages

+Inspired Learning at Iona

New website to house everything

Will be located in Quick links on Iona Website

Hyperlink

Hyperlink

Studyvibe

+Session 2: Jigsaw

What are the information literacy skills our students need?

Padlet

+Models of Information Literacy

Scope and sequence

ICT literacy matrix

(what will we do with this?)

+Activity

Go to a tables in groups of 4/5

Scan the Australian Curriculum documents to find IL skills

In groups write on A3 sheets what information literacy skills the various year groups need.

+Opportunities to embed activities

Future: Mapped

What’s happening now?

Leonie: Ancient China (show)

Winthrop Joel

Pathfinders – Show some examples

+What resources would you like?

Some HOLA’s have already responded with their requirements. Now it’s you chance!

Group review and critique Activity

Review the; Inspired Learning at Iona website, Pathways to learning book Packaged templates and research planner

Use tabs, highlighters and pens to mark, cross out and choose the templates that they really like.

+How can we help you improve IL skills now?

Pathfinders

EBSCO Demonstrate

Encyclopaedia Britannica Demonstration

Info Literacy lessons: E.g. Writing a bibliography In text referencing Note-taking on line How to find good websites How to use EBSCO

+Ultimate aim: 21st Century Learner

Information Literate students

Website: scaffolded learning anywhere anytime;

library support: pathfinders, collaborative teaching, spot teaching eg. Encycl B, EBSCO, referencing etc;

Integrated Info Lit plan,

workshops: boarders, parents

afterschool study skills; mapped curriculum: embedding IL skills within Aust. curriculum