Alyssa Miller

EDCI 270
Information Literacy Project
4 February 2015
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Reference List
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Garrison, D. R. & Cleveland-Innes, M. (2005). Facilitating Cognitive Presence in Online
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This study showed how meaningful online learning could be. How the different courses were
designed determined how much depth and meaning the students received from the courses.
Structure and leadership in the online courses proved to be important for the students to learn
more.
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problems. It also mentions how there can be an initial reluctance when first starting to learn
online. The paper then categorizes authentic activities by ten characteristics to further explain
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This study looks at how online learning can benefit professors (especially lecturers) in college.
Online learning could help with logistical and cost challenges the college faces when it comes to
continuous development. They found that most professors had positive attitudes about online
learning, but that there were many concerns about online learning taking over face-to-face
learning completely.

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To be informationally literate, you have to know how to find and access information and
evaluate its overall quality. This is very important because knowing how to successfully find
information, access it effectively, and evaluate the information is a key skill in life and in your
future career. When you know how to effectively and efficiently do these things, you can get
things done faster. You can also decide if your information is from a reliable source. Having
information from a reliable source makes your information and knowledge reliable as well.
As a student and as a future teacher, knowing how to access, evaluate, and use
information in the 21st Century is very important. As a student, you are constantly learning new
things and researching topics in your classes. When researching, you need to know how to get
useful information and how to find it in reliable places. Then you need to know how to use it
properly. Being informationally literate helps you to accomplish this. As a teacher, you are
learning new things from your students and throughout life. You are also constantly trying to
incorporate new things into your classroom and keep your children up-to-date. You must be
informationally literate to be able to find new things to do and teach and how to execute them
successfully for your children.
Information literacy is reflected throughout the ISTE standards. The ISTE standards
constantly mention digital literacy and how important it is as a teacher in the 21st Century.
Information literacy is a sub-category of digital literacy. To be digitally literate, you must possess
the quality of information literacy. Information literacy is important to have when dealing with
digital literacy because it is important to be able to find resources and to evaluate and use them
effectively, as said above.
Plagiarism, copyright, and fair use play a great deal in the topic of information literacy.
When you are looking for information, you have to know how to look for it in reliable places. If
you do not know how to do this, and you find unreliable information, you could be in trouble.
The unreliable information may be unreliable because it is plagiarized. Plagiarism is when
someone claims a work of some kind as their own when it is not. Along with finding information
and evaluating it, you must also now how to use it properly. If you do not know how to use it
properly, you may be the one who is plagiarizing. If you do not know how to cite your sources
you could be plagiarizing. You can get in very big trouble for this because it is stealing. Some
things have a copyright on them. This is when they official brand something as their own.
They claim it as their idea or product and make consequences of stealing it even more severe.
You have to be careful with copyrights and plagiarism. That is why it is important to be
informationally literate, so that you can find and use information properly and successfully while
avoiding these possible issues.
Technology is a great resource to have. It makes our lives so much easier in so many
ways. One of those ways is the access to virtually an unlimited amount of information. You can
find almost anything and everything on the internet! Finding information is extremely easy. The
only catch is that it may be false or misleading information. Anyone can post anything on the
internet because there is not much security. That is why it is so important to be informationally
literate in the 21st Century and with our advancing society and technology. You must know how
to find information successfully and effectively, how to evaluate it on its usefulness and its
reliability, and how to use it appropriately. This is so you can find the truthful information you

were looking for to help you with what you were doing. If your information is false, your project
or lesson plan is now false and now your image is smeared. Not being informationally literate
can backfire on you in so many different ways. It is important to be inormationally literate,
especially in the 21st Century!