Information Literacy: A Report
Using information and communication technologies in adult literacy education: New practices, new challenges.
This is a report from NCVER focusing on teachers and the teaching of InfoLit and is now available for downloading. It should prove interesting reading for librarians involved in support roles or actively teaching information literacy. One interesting point which I concur with: some teachers prefer the term 'communication' to 'literacy' because of the latter's connection to print and the stigma of failure; I know this well from adult teaching, which is why I prefer to use the term 'research skills' or just 'researching'. The term 'literacy' seems to have such negative connotations, many educators of adults avoid it. I don't like the term 'communication' for this research skills role.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/1608.html
posted by George Eraclides @ 1:42 PM
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I agree that literacy is both a misunderstood and sometime negative term for teachers and learners alike. I found valid the inference of the article that adult learners in particular, but learners in general, deserve the respect of having their existing literacies acknowledged and built upon. Unfortunately most teachers are unwilling or unable to cope with more of a facilitated mutual learning paradigm.
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