Achievement Targets: Construct a working definition of the concept "information literacy." and gain an overview of class goals and content.
1) Each individual will open a word processing file, type "Information Literacy" as a heading and then save the file to the "H" drive as "literacy.doc"
2) Session leader will pass out brief 2 page reading on information literacy and ask all to read.
3) Each person will try writing a working definition of "information literacy." This definition will grow and change as these modules continue.
4) Teams of two (Pairs) will exchange, discuss and modify their definitions. Much of this course will be done with partners sharing two computers - one for directions, one for searching.
5) Next, these pairs will jointly construct as full a listing of different kinds of literacies as possible.
6) The session leader will conduct a discussion:
b) How is information literacy a basic skill for people living in the next century?
7) Scan the rest of the Modules to gain an overview of the class.
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Gutenberg's Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Sven, Birkerts
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