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Unit 13: Purpose and Programmes of Education

information seeking strategies, location and access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation. Notes
Such approaches seek to cover the full range of information problem-solving actions that a person
would normally undertake, when faced with an information problem or with making a decision
based on available resources.
Imaginative Web based information literacy tutorials such as TILT are being created and integrated
with curriculum areas, or being used for staff development purposes.” Library media programs”
are fostering information literacy by integrating the presentation of information literacy skills with
curriculum at all grade levels.

But information literacy efforts are not being limited to the library field, but are also
being employed by regional educational consortia.

13.2.4 Efforts in Higher Education

Information literacy instruction in higher education can take a variety of forms: stand-alone courses
or classes, online tutorials, workbooks, course-related instruction, or course-integrated instruction.
One attempt in the area of physics was published in 2009.
State-wide university systems and individual colleges and universities are undertaking strategic
planning to determine information competencies, to incorporate instruction in information
competence throughout the curriculum and to add information competence as a graduation
requirement for students. The six regional accreditation boards have added information literacy to
their standards, Librarians often are required to teach the concepts of information literacy during
“one shot” classroom lectures. There are also credit courses offered by academic librarians to prepare
college students to become information literate.

Academic library programs are preparing faculty to facilitate their students’ mastery
of information literacy skills so that the faculty can in turn provide information literacy
learning experiences for the students enrolled in their classes.

13.2.5 Technology
Information Technology is the great enabler. It provides, for those who have access to it, an extension
of their powers of perception, comprehension, analysis, thought, concentration, and articulation
through a range of activities that include: writing, visual images, mathematics, music, physical
movement, sensing the environment, simulation, and communication.
Technology, in all of its various forms, offers users the tools to access, manipulate, transform, evaluate,
use, and present information.
Technology in schools includes computers, televisions, video cameras, video editing equipment,
and TV studios.
Two approaches to technology in K-12 schools are technology as the object of instruction approach,
and technology as the tool of instruction approach.
Schools are starting to incorporate technology skills instruction in the context of information literacy
skills. This is called technology information literacy.

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