In October, Dr Huw Davies gave one of the most inspiring webinars I’ve attended. It wasn’t inspiring because Huw told the audience about good things. Far from it: he spoke about the damage the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories is doing, especially to young people. A revised version of Huw’s slides is available here.
Educating for a Challenging Future: Political Literacy for Scottish Schools Read More »
This research paper which was the result of a CILIP ILG bursary granted to David Brazier and Morgan Harvey Northumbria University, was presented at ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference, 9 -11 October 2018 http://www.isic2018.com/programme/isic-2018-programme.html by David Brazier, Morgan Harvey and Geoff Walton. Introduction. This paper presents the results of a study investigating the information literacy
An Investigation into Scottish Teenagers’ Information Literacy and Search Skills Read More »
Whilst at the Information Literacy Forum last year I enjoyed meeting and chatting with Ruth Grindley, Early Years Digital Projects Manager with the Scottish Book Trust. Ruth was telling me about the development of a new digital strand to the Bookbug programme. This will provide families and practitioners with the opportunity to become more digitally
Bookbugs digital future Read More »
Scotland was well represented at the recent ECIL2017 conference, with myself, John Crawford, Bill Johnston and Kirsten McCormick (hope I got that right Kirsten!) all in attendance. I was presenting the highlights from a book chapter I have written which gives a checklist of eight main things to consider when you are writing or adapting
Presentation at ECIL2017 Read More »
I attended the Cross Party Group on Digital Participation meeting at Holyrood with Jenny Foreman on Tuesday 10th December. Sorry about the delay in posting but I was overcome by festive season sloth and I am only just recovering. The meeting was on the theme of Digital Participation in the workplace with two speakers and
Cross Party Group on Digital Participation meeting 10.12.13 and a Happy New Year Read More »
Dear all, At Christine’s suggestion I have posted the minutes on the discussion board which I compiled with a little help from Christine and Jenny. We will need to plan the next meeting well in advance probably second half of June so will be discussing with you all. Judging by January meeting, two hours may not
Minutes of meeting of January 30th 2013 and next meeting Read More »
Hi everyone, I just want to pass on this message to you as I thought you may be interested. Please pass it on to anyone else who may find it useful: We thought that some of you would be interested to know that a new sub-group of the CILIP Information Literacy Group called CoPILOT (Community
CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) Read More »
