SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 11, Number 1, January 2005

Theme: Student Learning Through Ohio School Libraries

Teaching Information Literacy in the Information Age: An Examination of Trends in the Middle Grades [PDF]
Marlene Asselin
This study examined the extent of information literacy instruction in grades 6 and 7 and the degree to which a variety of supportive factors are in place in classrooms and school library programs in one western Canadian province. Based on responses to questionnaires from teachers and teacher-librarians, four trends emerged: (a) the existence of broad level support within schools including a constructivist teaching and learning environment, principal support of information literacy, and teacher knowledge of information literacy; (b) the need for school and district level frameworks of information literacy; (c) the need for increased attention to teaching ethical and critical thinking aspects of information literacy, and (d) challenges to increasing the potential role of the school library program. Implications for teacher-librarians as school leaders of the "new literacies" required to participate in the Information Age are presented.

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