Information Skills

Author : Jonathan Grix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137013729
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Skills written by Jonathan Grix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skills for finding information are essential for academic study and beyond. This illustrated guide provides practical advice on how to source and use the right resources. It includes guidance on how to carry out a literature review as well as the skills needed for finding and evaluating information.

Author : Janine Carlock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 : 0472037668
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Information Literacy Skills written by Janine Carlock and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Information Literacy Skills provides guidance and practice in the skills needed to find and use valid and appropriate sources for a research project. Anyone who does academic research at any level can benefit from ways to improve their information literacy skills. This text has been structured around the six critical elements of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, contextualizing these elements by fitting them into the research and writing process. The book focuses on providing students with the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills needed to: (1) identify the conversation that exists around a topic, (2) clarify their own perspective on that topic, and (3) efficiently and effectively read and evaluate what others have said that can inform their perspective and research. The critical-thinking and problem-solving skills practiced here are good preparation for what students will encounter in their academic and professional lives. As an experienced writing instructor, the author has evaluated the final written products of hundreds of students who were trained through one-shot workshops and first-year introductory courses. She has applied that knowledge to create the tasks in this book so that students have the skills to successfully find, evaluate, and use sources and then produce a paper that incorporates valid research responsibly and effectively.

Author : Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437030
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Skills written by Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet, van Dijk and van Deursen's clear and accessible work distinguishes digital skills, analyzes their roles and prevalence, and offers solutions from individual, educational, sociological, and policy perspectives.

Author : James E. Herring
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Information Skills in Schools written by James E. Herring and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increase in project-based work in the National Curriculum has led to more pupil-centred, resource based learning in schools. Students must now be able to use information sources in a wide variety of formats, including CD-ROM and, in the future, the Internet. This sort of work demands new skills of learners and a new teaching approach from school librarians and teachers.

Author : Amruth G. Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527516954
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Factors Relating to Information Skills written by Amruth G. Kumar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents empirical evidence that the information skills of students of higher learning institutions can be improved using a set of personal and environmental variables. Using a judiciously planned and scientifically carried out study, it represents a great contribution in addressing the learning crisis that the Google generation face. The results of the study offer great hope for teachers and students at higher education institutions in an information overloaded society. Through its simplicity in presentation, meticulously planned procedure, and in-depth analysis, this book is a must-read for researchers in the field of education.

Author : Myram Forney Tunnicliff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313022852
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reference Information Skills Game written by Myram Forney Tunnicliff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This simple new approach to teaching information skills takes students beyond mere fact-finding to designing and recording search strategies. Structured as a game-with search maps, award badges, and search strategy suggestions-the activities help students acquire and sharpen reference, information retrieval, and problem-solving skills on a daily basis. As they explore print materials and audiovisual, computer, and human sources, they also build their background knowledge in a variety of subjects. Credit is given for process (search strategy) as well as for product (fact-finding). With these activities, school librarians and teachers collaborate as a teaching team to meet goals for improved reference skills. Adaptable to any size and format of library, media center, or classroom, the game has been successfully used at middle and high school levels in both libraries and classrooms. A classified subject index, bibliography of sources, and alphabetical index ease the process of curriculum integration.

Author : Nancy Pickering Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction written by Nancy Pickering Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010. The development of information literacy skills instruction can be traced from its basis in traditional reference services to its current growth as an instructional imperative for school librarians. Reviewing the scholarly research that supports best practices in the 21st-century school library, this book contains insights into improving instruction across content areas—drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology—that will be useful to school, academic, and public librarians and LIS students. In this updated fourth edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking in changing instructional environments made possible by the Internet and new technologies. This new edition also includes new chapters on everyday information seeking and motivation and a much-expanded chapter on Web 2.0. The new AASL standards are included and explored in the discussion. This book will appeal to LIS professors and students in school librarianship programs as well as to practicing school librarians.

Author : Michael B. Eisenberg
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Literacy written by Michael B. Eisenberg and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to cover all aspects of information literacy, from the origins of the concept to its economic and political importance.

Author : Allison Hosier
Publisher : ALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780838937983
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Context in Information Literacy Instruction written by Allison Hosier and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hosier shows academic librarians how to use context when teaching information literacy, an approach that offers a substantive and enduring impact on students' lifelong learning. Librarians know that information literacy is much more complex and nuanced than the basic library research skill that it's often portrayed as; in fact, as outlined by the ACRL Framework, research is a contextual activity. But the settings in which we teach often constrain our ability to take a more layered approach. This book not only shows you how to teach information literacy as something other than a basic skill, but also how to do it in whatever mode of teaching you're most often engaged in, whether that's a credit-bearing course, a one-shot session, a tutorial, a reference desk interaction, or a library program. Taking you through each step of the research process, this book shares ideas for adding context while exploring topics such as how conversations about context can be integrated into lessons on common information literacy topics; examples of the six genres of research and suggested course outlines for each; ensuring that context strategies fit within the ACRL Framework; questions for reflection in teaching each step of the research process; four different roles that sources can play when researching a topic; helping students refine a topic that is drawing too many or too few sources; cultivating students to become good decision-makers for the best type of research sources to use depending on their need; and how to address the shortcomings of checklist tools like the CRAAP test.

Author : Nancy Pickering Thomas
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 9781598844900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction written by Nancy Pickering Thomas and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with earlier editions, this latest revision of Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction: Applying Research to Practice in the 21st Century School Library brings together the research literature on information skills instruction with particular reference to models related to information seeking and the information search process. It presents relevant findings on what research has deemed "best practice" and what is known about how children learn, enabling school librarians to base information skills programs on substantiated data.||The sources reviewed for this book include doctoral dissertations, research reports, academic and professional journal articles in library information service and related fields, and publications by scholars and practitioners relevant to information skills curricula. A preface, newly prepared for the third edition, explains the revision process, while the epilogue examines the importance of communication between research scholars and school library practitioners.