- Has the school in which you work (or know best) developed an information literacy policy?
My school has not yet developed a specific information literacy policy.
- How is information literacy approached in your school or experience?
My school is a small school located in South-West Sydney, with many students coming from non-English speaking backgrounds. Many who attend the school are refugees who are disadvantaged and experienced trauma. As a result, the school attracts funding that has been recently used to purchase a class set of laptops for all classes. Only then did the executives sense the growing need for teachers to educate students on how to navigate the WWW for learning tasks and projects. For now, many teachers are expected to integrate aspects of information literacy in their programs, however, there isn’t yet a set program.
- How is digital citizenship approached in your school or experience
Similarly, digital citizenship was another area where students were presumed to already possess the skills in doing. However, more recently, due to the rise of social among students in Stage 2 and 3, a 3-6 program was designed to help teachers explicitly teach digital citizenship.
- How can a transliteracy approach expand the teaching role of the TL beyond the traditional information literacy paradigm?
A transliteracy approach would certainly be effective in allowing the TL to lead and support the students in acquiring information literacy skills and processes across various multimodal platforms. Information in the 21st century is no longer confined to printed texts. Therefore, it is vital that the TL helps students to transfer information literacy skills to any situation.