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Information literacy notes

Critical reflective ability

How students not only practice skills but also to think about how and when they might use information literacy skills.

Langford (1998,p59)stated "is it (information literacy) a concept or a process.

Abilock (2004p.1) took a wide view of information literacy arguing that "information literacy is a transformation process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.

Warlick,d. (2007). Literacy in the new information landscape, library media connection, 26, 20-21.

Warlick gets all excited because his son can make machinima, whilst this is great that librarians are getting all hot in the pants about second life and game technology these are not new things and should not be treated as such. By the time some kid plays with machinima concepts it's well and truly part of society and reached saturation point.

The one good thing warlick states is " the very nature of information has changed"

"as we become increasingly overwhelmed by information, we must work hard to decide which information we are going ton use, and which information we are going to ignore."