Friday, September 14, 2007

Fluency in the Digital World

This showed up in my bloglines account today. Jenny Levine linked an interesting chart on Info Lit by Karin Dalziel. Here's Jenny's post:

Fluency in the Digital World
By jenny on project next generation

I'm intrigued by Karin Dalziel's Chart of 4 Types of Information Literacy, although I would add "evaluating" to the first "information literacy" box.

Sadly, most libraries don't teach her third and fourth types - media literacy and digital literacy. For several years, I've highlighted Illinois' Project Next Generation in my presentations and how it creates collaborative work spaces where kids can learn the skills necessary for media and digital literacies. I'd still like to see more libraries provide these types of opportunities because after all, where else are these they (and adults) going to learn them? Are libraries really just about books and information, or is there more we can and should be educating users about? Or at least providing the spaces in which they can do that?

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