Information Literacy
21st Century Information Fluency Project Portal
Designed to train users in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to fully understand Information Fluency. Focuses on teaching people how to locate, evaluate, and inte…
Alliance for Childhood
Resources relating to the recently formed Alliance for Childhood on technology literacy.
Assessment of Information Literacy: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement
This paper reviews higher education assessment methods; identifies useful theories and practices; describes assessment programs in academic libraries; and makes recommendations for…
Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology
This paper discusses using hypermedia to eliminate the language barriers that limited English proficient (LEP) students experience in the school settings.
Critical Thinking in an Online World
Author Debra Jones argues that critical thinking is a key component of information literacy instruction in this conference paper from 1996.
Cult of the Palm Pilot
This essay appears on the Boston Phoenix webpage. Dan Kennedy reflects on the changes in literacy practices that palm computing makes possible.
Developing New Literacies: Using the Internet in Content Area Instruction
Paper discussing using the new literacy in content area instruction, how this area is changing, time restrictions, protection of children, keeping up with new developments and prep…
Digital Immortal
Article by Robert Lucky (pdf) questioning the continuing dominance of information technology. Original manuscript title: "Information Technology: Will This Too, Pass?"
Educational Technology Timeline
A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
Describes a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested by John Dewey: inquiry, communication, construction, and expression.
Educom Review: Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
The article suggests that a liberal education, originally based on the idea of the "Renaissance man" notion, should apply to technology as well. Shapiro and Hughes also,…
Expanding the Concept of Literacy
This article discusses a new definition of literacy which states, "Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of forms." …
First Monday: Technology and Education
This article deals with the mainstreaming of technology into the education system and the chaos that often ensues, the benefits of this change, and how it might be managed.
Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals
Stevan Harnad in this D-Lib Magazine piece argues for self-archiving of scholarly work.
FutureKids of South Florida
This organization is dedicated to "Helping teachers and children around the world master the power of the computer" along with providing "technology education soluti…
Higher Education in the Information Age
1997 symposium about the technological future and new models for delivery of education; new markets, competition, opportunities, issues, and business relationships in education; an…
Information Communication Technology in New Zealand
Supports the integration of Information Communication Technology and Information Literacy across the curriculum. It outlines the SAUCE model for research and problem solving and ai…
Information Literacy and the Net
A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by…
Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
Article which discusses literacy in a broad, historical sense, and lists seven dimensions of literacy.
Information Literacy in a Nutshell: Basic Information for Academic Administrators and Faculty
An introduction to the concept of information literacy and model information literacy programs. It is designed specifically for academic administrators and faculty. Many links to a…
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