The Information Literacy Continuum

Burns, Elizabeth A.; Gross, Melissa; Latham, Don

doi:10.29173/slw8232

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“…Byrne (2022) emphasises the crucial role libraries must play, especially with regard to helping individuals gain a soundly based knowledge of climate change and health-related matters, while I have highlighted that information professionals can enable people to recognise and confront their own prejudices (Shenton, 2023). More generally, well established frameworks for teaching IL, such as the Big6 Skills (Eisenberg & Berkowitz, 2003) and the ILPO approach (Ryan & Capra, 2001), have long encouraged students to seek a variety of materials when planning and implementing a search.…”

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Information literacy: Did Alvin Toffler beat Paul Zurkowski to it?

Shenton

2023

JIL

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Paul Zurkowski is often considered the “father” of the term, “information literacy” (IL). There were, however, other authors who, at a similar time, were writing about concepts we now consider fundamental to the nature of IL. A work of particular significance is Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. In this classic text – better known beyond information science than within it – Toffler addresses major themes such as the importance of evaluating information, the need to construct sense from the material we access and the dangers of “information overload”. He is concerned, too, with the more general requirement that, increasingly, people must “learn how to learn”. Personal experience has shown this author that it is possible to create a tool for information users from the closely related ideas of Zurkowski and Toffler, and that each writer recognises independently that the skills associated with the traditional literacies are insufficient if an individual is to function effectively in modern society. Whilst Zurkowski is cited with greater frequency in discussions on IL, it may be Toffler who has done more to highlight to a wider readership the value of information skills in an ever-changing world. Perhaps Zurkowski’s biggest achievement lies in providing a memorable two-word summarising label to his field of interest; it is one that has endured and remains pertinent today, some fifty years on.

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Information literacy: Did Alvin Toffler beat Paul Zurkowski to it?

Shenton

2023

JIL

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“…The bulk of the early scholarship focused on information searching skills and on teaching improved searching in school contexts for assigned task completion (Branch, 2003; Barranoik, 2001; Shenton, 2007). More recent LIS investigations have broadened the framing of adolescent information literacy to include metacognition (Reisoğlu et al , 2020) or to investigate narrower literacies, such as data literacy (Bowler et al , 2017), yet other LIS scholarship set in secondary education contexts continue to frame information literacy as sets of skills or abilities to be taught and learned (Burns et al , 2019; Crary, 2019; Spisak, 2020). Overall, there is limited consideration of adolescents’ everyday life (nonschool and nonwork) as information literacy context.…”

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Reflections on adolescent literacy as sociocultural practice

Agosto

2022

ILS

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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the concept of “literacy” within the new literacy, new literacies and library and information science (LIS) discourses. It proposes widening the prevailing LIS conceptualization of adolescent literacy, which focuses largely on information literacy in academic settings, to a broader, information practice-based, sociocultural framing that encompasses the full range of adolescents’ everyday life contexts. Design/methodology/approach The author presents a literature review and personal reflection on a series of adolescent information activities to show the value of framing the LIS discourse on adolescent literacy within a broader sociocultural perspective. Findings Based on the discussion, the author proposes a framework for future investigations of adolescents’ literacy practices that views adolescent literacy as fundamentally social and communicative; multiformat; multicontextual; multigenerational; and culturally situated. Originality/value A broader sociocultural approach to the LIS information literacy discourse can lead to deeper understanding of the co-constructed and collaborative nature of adolescents’ new literacies practices. It can also enable stronger recognition of the impact of power and privilege on adolescent literacy practices. Finally, this essay shows the value of reflecting on adolescent information activities for challenging narrow views of literacy and highlights the social embeddedness of new literacies activities in adolescents’ everyday lives.

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biblioteca escolar para el fomento de la lectura multimodal en la básica primaria

Álvarez

Ocampo²

2023

Rev. Interam. Bibliot.

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La biblioteca escolar es un servicio de las instituciones educativas que aporta a la formación de las competencias comunicativas e informacionales de la comunidad educativa. El propósito de este estudio fue comprender la dinámica de la biblioteca escolar para el fomento de la lectura multimodal en los estudiantes de básica primaria. La metodología de investigación fue el estudio de caso. Los instrumentos de recolección de información fueron el diario de campo y la evaluación de talleres por parte de los estudiantes. Los participantes fueron 92 estudiantes de los grados tercero, cuarto y quinto de una institución educativa pública de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes valoraron positivamente los talleres de promoción de lectura multimodal que se implementaron desde la biblioteca escolar, que esperan encontrar diversidad en recursos multimodales que los motive a la lectura y a un mayor nivel de interacción con los otros participantes. En las conclusiones se afirma que los servicios de la biblioteca escolar deben estar alineados con los propósitos formativos y lineamientos institucionales sobre el aprendizaje de la lectura, la escritura y la oralidad en los estudiantes de la básica primaria; además, que la labor del bibliotecario escolar exige actualización permanente sobre estrategias de promoción de la lectura en la escuela.

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The Information Literacy Continuum

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Information literacy: Did Alvin Toffler beat Paul Zurkowski to it?

Information literacy: Did Alvin Toffler beat Paul Zurkowski to it?

Reflections on adolescent literacy as sociocultural practice

biblioteca escolar para el fomento de la lectura multimodal en la básica primaria

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