A Healthcare Lens sounds like a brilliant idea and indeed different lenses or ways of looking at information literacy is something I’m a strong advocate of. I therefore read with interest Michelle Dalton’s blog post introducing a healthcare lens for the Seven Pillars of Information Literacy and the subsequent discussions that took place in the […]
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As you will have gathered from Ian’s post we both attended the Holyrood Cross Party Group on Digital Participation on the evening of Wednesday 4th September to give presentations. My presentation was Information skills for a 21st century Scotland: an online information literacy community of practice. I was a bit unsure as to how we
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I was recently asked to give a presentation on Information Literacy to the Cross-party Group on Digital Participation. I contacted John Crawford and he was also able to take part. Last night, we gave our presentations. Mine was “skills and assumptions“, highlighting some of the challenges pupils/students etc face-situations familiar to us all but seemingly
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I have recently changed job within Aberdeen City Libraries and now work for Europe Direct Information Centre – Aberdeen. My focus is now on providing an information service about the European Union that is relevant to the local population. We are one of three Europe Direct’s in Scotland and we have a network which spans
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Thanks to Lisa Jenkins for contacting me about graphics she helped create about the benefits of lifelong learning through music and language learning. I like the look of the graphics as they get the message over well and I also liked the visual image of: Fresh information acts as a protein shake, forging new pathways
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Thanks to Drew Whitworth, University of Manchester’s LIS-INFOLITERACY@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing Lee G Burchinal’s “The Communications Revolution” (1976): new digitised copy of text with commentary To facilitate further scholarship into the origins of ‘information literacy’ — as an idea and a practical project — I have digitised the text of the speech and presented it online, with
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Interesting blog posting titled ’50 Shades of Information Literacy” by Donna Witek “Information literacy can be found hidden in every corner of every discipline out there. It’s not always called information literacy and it does not always look the same. In that way, information literacy is very similar to complex reasoning skills. And some would
There seems to be a growing interest in Information literacy policies. In the last couple of months I have received a couple of emails on the subject which I thought the Community of Practice might be interested in. The first is detailed below with the response given. I’ll do another posting about the second in
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I have read the responses already posted below and realise my response is very similar but here is my reponse anyway: 1. What do you think are the current benefits of digital participation and using the internet? There are many benefits of digital participation and to using the internet and these are well documented. As
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Dear all, copy evidence I have just submitted to RSE. John RSE Evidence: Spreading the benefits of digital participation From Dr John Crawford, Chair, the Right Information: Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland. Before addressing some of the specific questions below I think it is important to be clear about what digital participation actually
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