Topic 5: Information Literacy
(covered only briefly in this class, more extensively in LIBR 250)
Read:
• various articles in the resources section to understand the basic components of an information literacy program in the overall framework of the library media program.
Read both:
• The Section on information literacy in Reinvent Your School's Library...
• Chapters 11 of Loertscher's Taxonomy of the School Library Media Program, 2nd ed.
Topics:
• teaching information literacy as a component part of the curriculum rather than as isolated skills.
• enabling students, after some practice, to develop their own information literacy model.
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