Today, I attended a meeting at METRO about ICT Literacy in Libraries given by Kathryn Shaughnessy of St. John’s University. ICT is an acronym for information and communication technology. Let me use this journal entry to summarize the notes that I took. Kathy set up the following page for this workshop:
http://delicious.com/tag/metro/tag/metro_ict_literacy
Information literacy (IL) teaches students how to become researchers. However, IL is compounded by changes in technology. We are now in the era of Web 2.0 which allows people to create, publish, and preserve information. Technology has become a communications mode.
There is both a technological and cognitive approach to ICT. Librarians must use the technology which is a subset of IL. We are all challenged by the problem of information overload.
Information literacy for life implies research skills in life long learning.
ICT Literacy is using digital technology, communications tools and/or networks to manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge society.
I was amused when Kathy demonstrated ICT Jeopardy which she uses when she teaches at St. Johns.
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