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4.6.4 MY SNAP SHOT AT INFORMATION LITERACY

Information literacy is important for today's learners, it promotes problem solving approaches and thinking skills – asking questions and seeking answers, finding information, forming opinions, evaluating sources and making decisions fostering successful learners, effective contributors, confident individuals and ..

I have learnt that When citizens fail to understand how information is organized and accessed, they lose the freedom to seek and critically analyze information for themselves, the freedom to make personally informed decisions on political and social issues, and the freedom to make an enlightened contribution to the body of human knowledge. In this context, information literacy as a set of skills is much more than how to search the Internet or use the latest Microsoft product. Information literacy rises to the level of possessing a worldview that acknowledges that there is a wealth of information available and that an educated citizen should possess the ability to harness it to enhance his or her own life and the lives of those around them. 

Information literacy is also important in order... 

1. To empower students to learn for themselves. 

2. To enable informed decision-making. 

3. To equip students for success in their careers. 

4. To meet needs of employers for information literate employees. 

5. To promote the creation of self-sufficient researchers. 

6. To encourage the careful evaluation of information sources for bias and inaccuracy. 

7. To help students deal with information overload. 

8. To offer strategies for using Google with discernment and for evaluating online information.

http://library.salve.edu/infolit2.html

I have also learnt that; 

Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning. An information literate individual is able to:

• Determine the extent of information needed
• Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
• Evaluate information and its sources critically
• Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/infolit/intro

I can now search for information resources 

i can now differentiate between information literacy and digital literacy.

i can now integrate information literacy in my lesson planning.

i submit

Gilbert Niwamanya