Hi everyone First of all, thanks to all concerned in setting up everything.
My involvement in Information Literacy goes back more years than I like to remember. While I worked in Govan High School, Glasgow, I developed a lot of ways of addressing information literacy issues and raised concerns about some assumptions that were being made – http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2063315 will give more details.
I took early retirement in 2010, but was invited to join the London-based Information Literacy Task Force co-ordinated by Tricia Adams from the School Library Association. I am also still on the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Digital Participation and I am involved in this Community of Practice and these other organisations, because I think information literacy, and the skills it can foster, are crucial and too often neglected, and I am keen to work with fellow members of The Right Information Community of Practice and anyone else, to address these issues.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Ian
Originally added by Ian McCracken