This recent Herald newspaper article Great internet age divide is a myth by Andrew Denholm brought a knowing smile to my lips. The article was about Dr Dan Russell a senior research scientist for internet search company Google, who was ‘visiting Scotland to deliver a lecture in the importance of digital literacy at Strathclyde University, Glasgow’. He […]
This is a piece of work that I was involved in earlier this year. Europe Direct Aberdeen held workshops with a Kirkhill Primary School on Safer Internet Day in February. These workshops informed the creation of the following booklet that is aimed at children, parents and those who work with children and young people. The booklet offers
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Catching up on some email alerts that I thought would be of interest to the CoP and articles that I need to add to my to read pile. ALISS AGM 2014: Developing Digital Literacies for a Digital World papers now accessible. Reflecting on Digital Scholarship competencies – Dr Charles Inskip reports on the Rilads Project which has
Having recently attended my first meeting of the Scottish Information Literacy – Community of Practice, I was asked to prepare a short post for the blog. I currently work for a land-based HEI as a campus librarian; but also have experience of working in public, school, schools library services and FE libraries. At the moment
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As a new member of the Community of Practice, Christine invited me to share my reasons for joining the group and any IL activities I’m involved in. I work at Scottish Borders Campus in Galahsiels which is a shared Campus between Heriot-Watt University and Borders College. Although I’m on the payroll of the University the
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Further to John’s blog,, I recently (Wednesday 7th May) sent the e-mail below to the central enquiries unit of the Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Contacts Can I please encourage others to place similar enquiries: I am most concerned that the success we have achieved by getting Information Literacy in the RSE report will not translate into Government action
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Hi everyone and Happy New Year Can I please draw members’ attention to this report by Professor Dorothy Williams which has a number of references to information literacy in schools http://www.scottishlibraries.org/storage/sectors/schools/SLIC_RGU_Impact_of_School_Libraries_2013.pdf Originally added by Ian McCracken
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The latest CILIP update has a number of articles of relevance to the CoP. The one I found most interesting was “call for literacy to take centre stage” relating to the Chartered Institute for IT. The website format (at least on my computer) is a bit odd, but worth having a look at it http://dlfl.bcs.org
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After an interested meeting of the CoP in Edinburgh on Bonfire Night, I thought I’d share a link or two. Well, it was the day of Bonfire Night, we didn’t get together to forgo the fireworks! We discussed how the term digital native is misleading. There is an assumption digital native denotes an innate understanding of technology and
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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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