Information Literacy: Where Do We Go from Here?

Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Spring, 2001 by Melissa Koch

Utah integrates the Big6 into its curriculum.

Wisconsin

Information & Technology Literacy Standards Matrix

http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/eis/pubsales/library_4.html

This publication is designed to help educators integrate information and technology literacy into the subject areas.

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Standards for School Library Media Programs in Maryland 1987, revised 2000 Maryland State Department of Education

The school library media program provides instruction, resources, and services to assist students and teachers in becoming critical thinkers in the pursuit and use of ideas and information. ... the school library media program realizes the vision by providing the following: An instructional program that is integrated with the curriculum and results in student achievement of learning outcomes in information literacy, independent learning, and socially responsible use of information and information technology.

Maryland Social Studies Skills

Students will use thinking processes and skills to gain knowledge of history, geography, economics, and political systems.

... [will] use clear research questions and coherent research methodology to elicit and present evidence from primary and secondary sources using available library, electronic, and human resources.

Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Information and Technology Literacy identify and define the knowledge and skills essential for all Wisconsin students to access, evaluate, and use information and technology for a lifetime. These standards connect and interrelate technology competencies and information processing skills needed for lifelong learning. The framework demonstrates a progression of competencies from the physical access skills for the use of media and technology, to the intellectual access skills of information use, and finally to the skills necessary to be effective in learning independently and within groups.

What is the main idea of this poster?

1) Prohibition was a major goal of the United States during WW1.

2) Patriotic appeals were used to gain support for the Prohibition movement.

3) Many soldiers in the United States military had a drinking problem.

4) Trench warfare on the western front led to large casualty and death rates.

Information Literacy Standards

Education reform efforts in the past 10 years have increased the importance of states setting standards. The states of California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois are leading the way in setting standards. All of them have included information literacy skills in their social studies standards, but none of these leaders has specifically named the skill "information literacy" or made it a priority across all standards.

All rive of these states rank in the highest two sections of the Fordham Foundation's State of State Standards (http://www.edexcellence.net/library/soss2000/2000soss. html), a study that assesses each state's standards alignment with assessment or ability to be assessed. California and Texas received the highest rating of honor roll in the Fordham Foundation's report. All of these states, along with several others that were already focused on information literacy (such as Maryland and Wisconsin), are struggling with developing assessment tools to measure student success.