As I read for the assignment it is becoming clearer and clearer just how important information literacy is. And how it is the role of every educator to be involved in helping students to come to terms with this concept and develop it in themselves and their learning.
A lot of what I have been reading, especially about collaboration and higher order thinking, is tying in with a new push for co-ordinators in my school. We are implementing the NSW Quality Teaching Framework in our classrooms and assessments. In the assessment category especially there is an emphasis on actually having 'proper' higher order thinking skills embedded in our tasks, both formal and informal.
For me, these higher order thinking skills are what information literacy is all about.
It is easy enough for a student to source information, but what they do with that information in the real clincher.
Do students just take everything at face value? Do we as teachers accept that? When better sources are out there do we let students get away with the bare minimum of research and engagement with information? How do we encourage better information literacy?
I read a great reading about how a PLC school in Western Australia has developed their own idea of information literacy, out of ASLA's, and used it to develop their own framework for the development of informaiton literacy in their school.
All the models that we have been presented with are good, but I think this approach - one created through collaboration for the specific needs of a school community - is one that all schools and TLs should adopt.
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