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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Information Literacy
Information Literacy is skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze or use information. Everyone needs Information Literacy. Information Literacy allows students and adults to create creativity when researching various topics. Students cannot learn everything that they need to equip for college. Information literacy helps them to develop critical skills. This is an important skill needed for students and teachers. These skills extend beyond the classroom into the workplace and personal lives. It has pretty much become a survival skill. If you don’t know how to use it then you won’t survive technology changes. I will teach my students about information literacy by first exposing them to websites that give important information about Resources & Ideas. These sites provided information about on a wide variety of subjects. Once students learn how to use Information Literacy, they can think and analyze outside of the box when presenting projects or writing research papers.
Dr L, that's very interesting that you mention that topic. I use that same tactic with my virtual assistant. I tell her what I'm looking for, provide her with research topics to get started, but pretty much she's on her own. She gets frustrated sometimes because I don't just give her the answer. The whole purpose is for her to find research on her own so that when she goes into the "REAL WORKFORCE" she knows how to do this. It is imperative that students today know how to complete a work task on their own or at least find out how to do them. It's gets harder and harder as the years go by and that's how jobs are phasing out people because they don't know how to do the simple requirements needed to sustain a successful career.
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