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Information Literacy: Building Blocks of Research: Overview
Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.
Information Literacy shares a fundamental set of core thinking- and problem-solving meta-skills with other disciplines. Authentic cross-disciplinary problems which include observation and inference, analysis of symbols and models, comparison of perspectives, and assessment of the rhetorical context, engage students in developing mastery information literacy over time.
Storyline Online - online story streaming. Cool
Listen and watch stories being read. Lovely friendly site and it comes with activities and guides. Cool
Wacky Web Tales- another one for my library collection
# These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.
This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.
Assessment and remediation of the pre-requisite knowledge and skills for Mathematical Literacy
Number booklet coverDuring April 2008 Brombacher and Associates ran a four-day workshop for FET College lecturers on the assessment and remediation of the pre-requisite knowledge and skills assumed to be necessary for students to be able to study Mathematical Literacy. The workshop, presented by Aarnout Brombacher and Marc North,was attended by one lecturer from each of the 50 FET Colleges.
The workshop focussed on the use of pre-tests to determine the knowledge and skills that college students have at the start of the programme and on the teaching of the necessary knowledge and skills in those cases where the students do not have these.
Click on the "read more" link below to access the pre-test and remediation materials developed for the workshop as well as the powerpoint slide shows that supported the teaching these could be used by college lecturers in their remediation efforts.
Downloads:
Handout (44 pages): Numbers (download)
o Presentation: Order of operations (download)
o Presentation: Percentage (download)
o Presentation: Ratio (download)
o Presentation: Proportion (download)
o Presentation: Rate (download)
Handout (40 pages): Patterns and Relationships (download)
Handout (11 pages): Space, Shape and Orientation (download)
21st Century Information Fluency
Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves Internet search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.
Reading Companion - Contact Us
Reading Companion is available for free to elementary public schools and nonprofit organizations that offer adult literacy assistance. Individuals who wish to participate must be affiliated with a Reading Companion grant site. Click here for Participating Organizations. IBM is now accepting proposals for consideration. Please send us your full contact information by completing the form below and IBM will send your school/nonprofit organization a proposal request.
Reading Companion 4 primary schools
Reading Companion is available for free to elementary public schools and nonprofit organizations that offer adult literacy assistance. Individuals who wish to participate must be affiliated with a Reading Companion grant site. Click here for Participating Organizations. IBM is now accepting proposals for consideration. Please send us your full contact information by completing the form below and IBM will send your school/nonprofit organization a proposal request.
SANGONeT - The Literacy Crisis
The current literacy crisis is a thorny issue and a battlefield of self-interest. However we should challenge the self-serving agendas of the big ABET service providers and inept bureaucrats who simply ignore the fundamental pedagogical principle that the
The seven headline skills expanded
Information literacy skills
SA disappoints in global literacy study : Mail & Guardian Online
SA disappoints in global literacy study
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UNESCO’s literacy programmes aim to create a literate world and promote literacy for all.
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