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Information literacy and digital inclusion: from advocacy to action
Slides from Information literacy and digital inclusion: from advocacy to action Sharon Wagg Tinder Foundation, UK Jane Secker London School of Economics and CILIP Information Literacy Group, UK Stéphane Goldstein InformAll, UK European Conference on Information Literacy ECIL2016 Prague 10...
Good news for libraries in Scotland!
The Scottish Government has published A plan for Scotland: the government’s programme for Scotland 2016-17 “We will invest £450,000 in the Public Library Improvement Fund to support innovative ways for people to use public libraries. A pilot area will be selected...
Critical Literacy for Information Professionals
This new book explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries. The approach taken in critical literacy is not to read texts in isolation, but to develop an understanding of...
Digital skills articles
Over the past couple of months I have been adding links to articles that I thought may be of interest to the community under the Resourses tab. I now realise that doing this does not send out an alert/ I...
Information: interactions and impact (i3) conferences – more reflections
This year I attended i3 with my fellow Edinburgh Napier University Centre for Social Informatics PhD Students. The papers we delivered included topics on: the role of the census in public policy makers; information literacy; grass roots campaigns on public...
Reflections from Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) Conference
i3 is a great event to attend and speak at. My thanks to everyone who attended my presentation How can information literacy be modelled from a lifelong learning perspective? Now that the Conference is over, it is time to start...
The Welsh Information Literacy Project comes to an end
I attended the last meeting of the Welsh Information Literacy Project in Wrexham last Thursday, 26th March. The Project is coming to an end after five years of productive work. During this time it has been funded by Cymal, the...
Great internet age divide is a myth: children no better with technology than adults, claims Google scientist
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...
Safer Internet Day Booklet
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...
Personal Learning Networks
An item about ‘Personal learning networks‘ in LinkedIn caught my eye this morning, I followed up and it took me to the IRISS blog about using social media for workplace knowledge sharing and learning and a blog posting by Ian...