This is in response to MrWIlliamsphysed’s post :

Rank, Talk, Write – Unit 3 – LA1 – BP1

Reading their summary of the article, I was very intrigued by the term ‘ Information Literacy’ . Not being from the education field myself, I was curious to find how this term was defined. Seems like this is a relatively new concept. The article mentions that it was first described in 1974 by Zurkowski . Zurkowski described information literate individuals as those “who are trained in the application of information resources to their work” (cited in Kurbanoğlu, 2010).  “Another feature distinguishing information literacy from other types of literacy is its not being restricted to a certain discipline or subject area”. (Kurbanoğlu, 2010, p. 740).

Tom also makes a very interesting observation in his summary that the study identified that USA and UK place higher value on information literacy in their teacher training . It would be interesting to find out ultimately how teacher competencies and student results compared , if someone were to conduct a study comparing the teachers in these 2 countries with the Eastern European countries that this study was conducted in .

I also think that a very important consideration here is  that access to resources ( or lack thereof) is a very big factor in a lot of less developed countries . This is applicable to teachers, educational institutions and students .

 

References:

Kurbanoğlu, S. (2010). Bilgi okuryazarlığı: Kavramsal bir analiz (Information literacy: A conceptual analysis). Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 24(4), 723-747.

Sağlam, A., Çankaya, I., Üçer, H. & Çetin, M. (2017) The effect of information literacy on teachers’ critical thinking disposition. Journal of Education and Learning, v6 n3 p31-40 20172.