Information Literacy SIG

The Information Literacy Team

Chair:

Dr. Lesley Farmer (USA)
Albert K. Boekhorst, PhD, Research Associate, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Objectives

to promote information literacy as a central concept in all school curriculums and to work toward its integration in teaching and learning practices;
to share strategies in integrating information literacy into the curriculum;
to share theory and best practice for integrated skills development to help students learn how to learn in the content areas;
to discuss successful activities and methods to involve students in the synthesis of their skill development activities;
to examine methods for developing collaborative and co-operative planning, teaching and evaluation processes with teachers as part of the instructional team.

identify websites and listservs related to information literacy broadly defined, such as: independent learning, life long learning, information skills, study and research skills, learning styles, flexible learning, library skills;
discuss various models of information literacy;
identify and present case studies of best practice of integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum;
identify research that establishes impacts of information literacy based programs;
establish research needs related to information literacy;
identifies national information literacy agendas;
establish a creative forum for the generation of teaching and learning ideas centring on information literacy;
identify potential themes / people for conference presentations;
provide examples of information literacy policies in schools.

Online Resources: Information Skills
Information Literacy Assessment: Some online tools and guides [currently being updated]
Current online resources recommended by IASL members on IASL-LINK
- Understanding information literacy: a primer—UNESCO website
- Information Literacy Weblog
- S.O.S. of Information Literacy