Looking to the Present: Directions for School Libraries

Marlene AsselinInformation Literacy Project 2007-2008

Wikis

Critical Thinking

Meta

Expanding

Blogging

Critical Thinking

PodCasting

Multiple & New

Visual Languages

NewTechnologies

Information Literacy

Cellular SurfingWriting

Reading

Traditional

New literacy outcomes for the information generation

Basic

Literacy

Critical Literacy

Technological Literacy

Inquiry and Problem Solving

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Creativity and representation

Learning about and responding to today’s library users

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf

Creating and ConnectingNational School Board Association (2007)

“a desperate need for . . . educational research and inquiry into the information and digital literacy skills of our young people” (p. 32).

Research Directions

The shift from the book to the Internet as the primary source of information has brought multiple challenges for literacy education including effective and efficient navigation, critical evaluation of information, synthesizing information for learning, and communicating new knowledge. All of these aspects are imbued with ethically and socially responsible use of information.

Research Directions

The rise of the creative class A new digital divide A new means of addressing of equity

Adolescent Internet/Information Literacy

see http://moraedata.googlepages.com/videos

New Libraries for Today’s Youth

http://www.myspace.com/hennepincountylibrary

New Libraries for New Learners: A Mission Statement

http://ourschoollibraries.blogspot.com/