Open AccessInformation Literacy: What is it? Are you Information Literate? How do you know?
Author(s) -
Ann Marlow Riedling
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iasl conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-8372
DOI - 10.29173/iasl8168
Subject(s) - information literacy , lifelong learning , information age , literacy , public relations , information society , media literacy , critical literacy , sociology , literacy education , political science , pedagogy , law
No other change in our nation has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the Infommation Age. In an information society, all people should have the right to information that can enhance their lives. To reap the benefits of our global society, individuals must be information literate on a global basis.
This article discusses several aspects of infonnation literacy, from characteristics of an information literate person to information literacy education, including the role of the library media specialist, to educational criteria for evaluating electronic information literacy. It is our job as educators to teach students to become critical thinkers and lifelong leamersinformation literate citizens.