10.+Workplace+Literacies

Summary of "Information literacy the ‘democratic right’ of every learner, say Scottish expert" (Podcast)

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Information literacies can be used across education, work and life and beyond. It is not sufficient to talk about literacy and framework, you need to show relevance. IL should be taught in school. Librarian should be involved. Teaching IL will include some general literacies but also spcific to individual needs.

I agreee with some of the messages that I heard from the Podcast: Information literacies can be used across education, work and life and beyond. So we need to think about IL in a broader sense. Literacies that I need right now in my education and how I am going to be able to use these skills later in my life and at work. We live in a system, education, work and life are all interconnected. We are not going to have literacies for education, another set for work and another set for life. It is going to be the same collections of knowledge and skills that support us across our human experiences. It is not sufficient to talk about literacy and framework, you need to show relevance. I agree, we should start teaching IL early at school and librarians should be involved. Which reminds me that we do not really involve our librarians in the staff development program. Their expertise would help while struggeling with the adoption of social media in teaching. I like George Siements list of skills. #6 is especially important, to think as being part of a complex system. For instance, learning styles gives us educators the sense of control over a complicated situation. But I noticed a few times at various teacher education presentations that the final message is the same, if this methods are good for visual learners but in general they are useful for all, or these activities would help aging learners, but they can be used with any learners, too.

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