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InformationInformation LiteracyLiteracyAn essential to survive in 21st century

Safia KokabSafia Kokabsf_kkb@yahoo.com

21st Century “Survival Literacies” (Unesco)

1. Basic or Core functional literacy fluencies of reading, writing, orally and in numeric

2. Computer Literacy3. Media Literacy4. Distance Education and E-Learning5. Cultural Literacy

6.6. Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

Information Literacy:Information Literacy: DefinitionDefinition

A mean to “empower people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals”

(UNESCO)

Information Literacy:Information Literacy: DefinitionDefinition

A set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information”

(ACRL)

Information Literacy (definition)Information Literacy (definition)

The ability to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.”

ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. Final Report. 1989

Information Today: Information Today: Abundant and DiverseAbundant and Diverse

• Internet • Libraries• Media• Organizations• Text, graphic, aural, media, multimedia• Easily accessible from home

Information Literacy Information Literacy &&

Information TechnologyInformation Technology• Information literacy

skills– Understanding – Finding– Evaluating– Using– Emphasis on critical

discernment

• Information technology skills– Databases– Word processing– Spreadsheets– Presentation software– Emphasis on technology

An information literate person is able to:An information literate person is able to:

• Determine the extent of information needed• Access needed information efficiently• Evaluate information critically• Use information to accomplish a purpose• Use information ethically and legally

ACRL

An information literate personAn information literate person

has a deep awareness, connection, and fluency with the information environment. Information literate people are engaged, enabled, enriched and embodied by social, procedural and physical information that constitutes an information universe. Information literacy is a way of knowing that universe."

Lloyd (2004: 223)

How to be information literate How to be information literate with people?with people?

• –When to trust people as information sources• –Good ways to “search” and “browse”

different kinds of people (e.g. teacher, friend, employer, unknown expert)

• –Comparing people sources with other sources

• –Working with people to share and create information

Web 2.0 vs. SocializationWeb 2.0 vs. Socialization

• Web 2.0 may be “hook” to attract, but people need “old-fashioned” face-to-face skills too

• More education for collaborative information literacy e.g. co-creating documents and websites; working on information tasks together; “family” information literacy sessions

Information Literacy & Lifelong LearningInformation Literacy & Lifelong Learning

Information LiteracyInformation Literacy is the base of

Life Long LearningLife Long Learning

Lifelong LearningLifelong Learning All learning activities undertaken

through life on an ongoing basis in a variety of formal and informal settings, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, understandings and competence, within a personal, civic, social and/or employment-related perspective.

(NIACE, 2003)

Inter-relationship betweenInter-relationship between Information Literacy & Lifelong LearningInformation Literacy & Lifelong Learning

• Self Actualization• Self Motivation• Self Direction• Self Empowerment

Difference betweenDifference between Information Literacy & Lifelong LearningInformation Literacy & Lifelong Learning

• Information Literacy is aa set of skillsset of skills

• Lifelong learning is a good habita good habit

ConclusionConclusion• 21st century is an era of globalization lead by

ICT, Information, Communication, Technology.

• In order to survive in 21st century we must be Information literate and Lifelong learner.

• Information literacy is essential not only in academia but in every field of life.

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Safia KokabSafia KokabMLIS-PU (2006-08)Former LecturerDepartment of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of Sargodhasf_kkb@yahoo.com