1. COMPUTER
Literacy:
SUBMITTED BY:
SHANIA COTIANGCO

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What is Information Literacy?
And why should I care?
• Information literacy skills are skills you will
need through your life. We are always seeking
information. . . . Information helps us reach
conclusions, make our choices, and
communicate more effectively. But the good
stuff is often buried in heaps of junk. We need
to continue to improve our searching,
evaluating and communication skills in a
changing information environment.
• Remember computer literacy is not
information literacy. For a comparison, read
this article.

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Why teach information literacy?
• The information explosion has provided
countless opportunities for students and
has dramatically altered the knowledge and
abilities they will need to live productively in
the twenty-first century. Students must
become skillful consumers and producers of
information in a range of sources and
formats to thrive personally and
economically in the communication age.

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What is information literacy?
If you are information literate, you are able
to
• know when you have a
need for information
• find the information you need
• evaluate the information you find
and use it effectively to meet your
needs

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Another concept
What is Information Competence?
• information competence, at heart, is the
ability to find, evaluate, use, and
communicate information in all of its
various formats.
• the fusing or the integration of library
literacy, computer literacy, media
literacy, technological literacy, ethics,
critical thinking, and communication
skills.

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Literacy, Competence or Competency?
Information literacy
• also known as information competence or
information competency is a set of skills
that helps students sift through the mass
of information now available to them in
order to locate and retrieve what is
relevant and reliable for their research
needs.
• Simply put, an information literate
student understands how to find, retrieve,
analyze, and use information effectively.

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Adding to the confusion of terms!
Several other terms and combinations of
terms have been also used by different
authors:
• ‘infoliteracy’, ‘informacy’, ‘information
empowerment’, ‘information competence’,
‘information competency’, ‘information
competencies’, ‘information literacy skills’,
‘information literacy and skills’, ‘skills of
information literacy’, ‘information literacy
competence’, ‘information literacy
competencies’, ‘information competence skills’,
‘information handling skills’, ‘information
problem solving’, ‘information problem solving
skills’, ‘information fluency’, ‘information
mediacy’ and even ‘information mastery’

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A related term often used outside library media circles
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• We learn best when we are at the center
of our own learning. Inquiry-based
learning is a learning process through
questions generated from the interests,
curiosities, and perspectives/experiences
of the learner. When investigations grow
from our own questions, curiosities, and
experiences, learning is an organic and
motivating process that is intrinsically
enjoyable.
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Inquiry-based learning

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Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning
Explore the Approaches
• Project-based learning, problem-
based learning, and inquiry-based
learning all three closely relate to the
information processing approach.
They all fit well with technology-rich
learning environments where the
focus is not on the hardware and
software, but on the learning
experience.

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21st Century Literacies
• 21st Century Literacies refer to the skills
needed to flourish in today's society and in the
future. Today discrete disciplines have
emerged around information, media,
multicultural, and visual literacies. It is the
combination of literacies that can better help
K-12 students and adult learners address and
solve the issues that confront them.
• http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/21stcent/index.html