Saturday, September 7, 2013

Information Literacy


I find it amazing that there is so much information on ‘Information Literacy’, I also find it amazing that there are so many definitions. It is undoubtedly important for Long Life Learning as stated in ‘The Australian and NZ Information Literacy Framework’ people who are information literate ‘know how knowledge is organised, how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them’.

The major difference that I have found with the definitions provided in this module as opposed to the definitions proposed in earlier modules is that they are more in-depth and focused more on individual needs within individual communities. These definitions identify many standards of information literate people but more specifically they identify that information literate people take part in independent learning and lifelong learning.

These recently proposed definitions differ from previous definitions as they highlight Information Literacy as the ability or understanding of knowing how to learn.

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