information skills for a 21st century scotland: an online information literacy community of practice
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Presentation to the Holyrood Cross Party Group on Digital Participation on the evening of Wednesday 4th SeptemberTRANSCRIPT
Information skills for a 21st century Scotland
An online information literacy community of practice
And he’s back! www.therightinformation.org/
Information Literacy definitions
"Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner." CILIP (2004)
www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/information-literacy/pages/default.aspx
“Information Literacy was defined as the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address an issue or problem.” Prague Declaration
The Scottish Information Literacy Project objectives 2004 - 2010
• Develop an information literacy framework, linking primary, secondary and tertiary education to lifelong learning including workplace and adult literacies agendas
• Advocacy on behalf of information literacy for education and the wider community
• Work with information literacy champions both UK and worldwide
• Research and promote information literacy in the workplace • Identify and work with partners, both in education and the
wider community • Research the role of information literacy in continuing
professional development • Research the health and media literacies agenda
Who were we?
Some achievements
• 2003 – The Drumchapel Project – where it all began• 2004 – The ‘one year’ Information Literacy, the Link between
Secondary and Tertiary Education Project launched • 2005-8 - the first draft of the National Information Literacy
Framework Scotland completed, piloted and evaluated• Contact and work with Learning and Teaching Scotland and
learndirectscotland [now Education Scotland]• Extensive network of partners and contacts from school,
FE/HE, workplace, lifelong learning, Adult literacies + overseas• Website developed and blog + PR activities• Initial health and media literacy contacts
Information skills for a 21st Century Scotland www.therightinformation.org/
Launched 11th June 2012@ CILIPS Annual Conference in Dundee
New online information literacy community of practice: Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland.
More than a website …
Hosted by Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Aims and activities of the community of practice
• Developing core information literacy skills in further education • Assessing the impact of information literacy training• Advocacy for information literacy• Instructing teachers in information literacy• Information literacy as an employability skill • Information literacy toolkits for young people• Teaching information literacy skills in public libraries• Links between schools and public libraries• Use of electronic information literacy resources in public libraries• Online training packages in higher education • Workplace information literacy skills • Social media
Some work to date
• FE training materials – Dundee College• A comprehensive HE IL package – SMILE (Glasgow
Caledonian)• Programme of awareness raising within the profession• Presentations at an international conference • Further development of framework• Project Blaster (primary school project)• Plan training events within Scotland• Book – Information literacy and lifelong learning
Project Blaster: information literacy for a digital ageA skills-based cross-curricular resource to help primary pupils learn basic research skills
A six step guide that shows teachers and pupils how to find, select and analyse a wide range of information for school projects whether online or print-based
Aims to help pupils build the critical skills necessary to assess the increasing amount of information they will encounter in their learning journey
Finding and assessing informationAims to help teachers and students identify multiple sources of information rather than just relying on Google as a starting point
Encourages pupils to make connections between information around them and what they find online
Teaches pupils to critically evaluate information through class discussion and comparing different sources
Information and Digital Literacy Provision
Identified a Gap in Curriculum
• Special Programmes team short staffed
• Students unable to partake in full curriculum
• Teaching hours cut, timetables stretched
• New way to improve information literacy sought
© K Baikie, Licensor Dundee College
Literacy Information Skills Course
• Suitable materials researched and developed
• Close work with Special Programmes team
• College certificate course agreed
• First Literacy Information Skills class in Aug 2009
© Dundee College
Types of Activities
Using a computer as a research tool
Finding reliable online information
Making use of library resources
Understanding and using weights and measures
© Dundee College
Questions? Contact details
John [email protected] Chair, Information Skills for a 21st
Century Scotland,Information skills for a 21st century
Scotlandhttp://www.therightinformation.org/