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Suzanne Bartels's List: Literacies for the 21st Century
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Dec 28, 11
"are major challenges both intellectually and practically, and deserve
extended discussion and collaboration among both educators and
information-systems professionals, humanists, and computer and information
scientists.
An Information Literacy Curriculum
Perhaps a brief sketch of such a curriculum, with emphasis on what is needed
in higher education, will stimulate such discussion. This prototype curriculum
attempts to encompass the old concept of "computer literacy" (remember "everyone
should learn to program in BASIC"?), the librarians' notion of information
literacy and a broader, critical conception of a more humanistic sort. Seven
dimensions of literacy can be identified:
Tool literacy, or the ability to understand and use the practical and
conceptual tools of current information technology, including software, hardware
and multimedia, that are relevant to education and the areas of work and
professional life that the individual expects to inhabit. This can be taken to
include the basics of computer and network applications as well as fundamental
concepts of algorithms, data structures, and network topologies and
protocols.
Resource literacy, or the ability to understand the form, format, location
and access methods of information resources, especially daily expanding
networked information resources. This is practically identical with librarians'
conceptions of information literacy, and includes concepts of the classification
and organization of such resources.
Social-structural literacy, or knowing that and how information is socially
situated and produced. This means knowing about how information fits into the
life of groups; about the institutions and social networks - such as the
universities, libraries, researcher communities, corporations, government
agencies, community groups - that create and organize information and knowledge;
and the social processes through which it is generated - such as the trajectory
of publication of scholarly articles (peer review, etc.), the relationship
between a Listserv and a shared interest group, or the audience served by a
specialized library or Web site.
Research literacy, or the ability to understand and use the IT-based tools
relevant to the work of today's researcher and scholar. For those in graduate
education, this would include discipline-related computer software for
quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and simulation, as well as an
understanding of the conceptual and analytical limitations of such
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