This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more discriminating consumers of information and misinformation coming at them from the Internet, soci
This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more discriminating consumers of information and misinformation coming at them from the Internet, soci
This book offers the first analysis on public policies in Media, information and computer literacy in Europe.It assesses the available training in and resources for primary and secondary schools, the
This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the twent
"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikiped
Librarians and teachers set out goals, objectives, and practices in metaliteracy, a reframing of information literacy. They cover revising for metaliteracy; the politics of information; metaliteracy l
In an age where data flows non-stop, across all geographic borders and accessible to many, the job of providing information literacy has become much more exciting, more complicated, and more necessary
The authors propose a concept of metaliteracy that expands the scope of traditional information literacy skills to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digi
Martin (connected learning research network, U. of California at Irvine) here analyses how people connect with information. She examines affinity space as an information source, the constellation of i
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how p
Ragains, the business and government librarian at the U. of Nevada, Reno, and other library instructors from US universities show academic librarians how to teach information literacy. In 20 chapters,
Drawing on personal accounts and documents, historian Reisch reveals hitherto unknown details about programs funded by the CIA to distribute books to key intellectuals and professionals, libraries, re
Davis-Kahl, a scholarly communications librarian at Illinois Wesleyan U., and Hensley, an instructional services librarian at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bring together librarians from uni
In this guide for new and experienced college library instructors, Sobel (University of Colorado-Denver) presents classroom practices especially for teaching first-year students from a variety of back
This book was written for library and information practitioners, as well as policy makers involved with information literacy programmes.The book is divided into three parts: Recent Developments in Inf
Kaplowitz, a retired librarian at UCLA who offers workshops in active learning, assessment, expected learning outcomes, instructional planning, and learner-centered teaching, explores the fundamentals
Small, Arnone, and Berger (all School Media Program, Syracuse U.), join with Stripling (New York City Dept. of Education) to provide current and future librarians a practical a guide to their instruct
Farmer (librarianship, California State U. Long Beach) teaches all types of librarians how to design instruction for their patrons. She discusses the need, foundations, theories, and framework for ins
