Information Literacy Skills for the 21st Century Learning
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Information literacy is an essential skill for the 21st century learning. Nowadays, students need to develop information literacy skills. These skills focus on determining the need of gathering information, accessing, evaluating and using information ethically and legally. When students have information skills, they will learn and develop themselves as a lifelong learner. This article presents details of information literacy in five sections: (1) history, definition and importance of information literacy, (2) characteristics of the information literate person, (3) information literacy standards, (4) information literacy instruction and assessment, and (5) dissemination of current knowledge on information literacy.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The articles published are the copyright of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University.
The views and opinions expressed in the articles published in this journal are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board or Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University.
References
American Association of School Librarians. (2017). AASL standards framework for learners. Retrieved from https://standards.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AASL-Standards-Framework-for-Learners-pamphlet.pdf.
American Library Association. (1989). Presidential committee on information literacy: Final report. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/presidential.
Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000). Information literacy competency standards for higher education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/.
Doyle, Christina S. (1994). Information literacy in an information society: A concept for the information age. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED372763.pdf.
Institute for Information Literacy. (2003). Characteristics of programs of information literacy that illustrate best practices: A guideline. College & Research Library News. 64(8), 544-547.
Radcliff, Carolyn J., Jensen, Mary Lee, Salem, Joseph A., Jr., Burhanna, Kenneth J., & Gedeon, Julie A. (2007). A practical guide to information literacy assessment for academic librarians. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited.
Ragains, Patrick, & Emmons, Mark. (2013). Setting the stage for information literacy education. In Patrick Ragains, (Ed). Information literacy instruction that works: A guide to teaching by discipline and student population. (2nd ed.). Chicago: Neal-Schuman.
