Image created by Adobe Firefly via a prompt by Kellie Billingsley My perspective as a teacher librarian focuses on how important it is to develop students’ digital and information literacy. My role is certainly not just about running the school library; it’s equally about providing students with the skills they need to use new technology […]
Category: Information Literacy
ETL 401 Assessment 3 Part C: Reflective Practice
I have previously reflected upon the belief that literacy is a skill that students need to function in society, after school. (Billingsley, 2022, Jan 8). Information literacy (IL) is at the heart of lifelong learning, a sentiment that has been echoed in both the Obama and Alexandria proclamations. (Jacobs & Berg, 2011). We only need […]
5.4b Convergence
5.4b Convergence With the continuing explosion of 21st century technologies, if is fair to say that the teacher’s role is adapting and there is an ever increasing emphasis on students needing to be comfortable in using various media. The bottom line is that students need to be literate in all types of technologies. Schools, classrooms […]
5.4a: Information Literacy Models in practice
Fitzgerald, L. & Garrison, K. (2017) ‘It Trains Your Brain’: Student Reflections on Using the Guided Inquiry Design Process. Synergy, 15/2 How might the TL help the school move towards integrated information literacy instruction? What challenges lie in the way of such instruction? How teacher librarians and teachers might encourage students to transfer information literacy skills […]
5.3a Information Literacy Model Analysis – Links to the workplace
Lupton, M.(2014) Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum v6, Access, November. A discussion on the above analysis and the impact of this for the need of an IL model in my own school. Lupton (2014) in her analysis of the Australian Curriculum, recognises that inquiry learning is frequently referred to within many core subject areas, however, […]