GROUP 1

Members:
-Gumanad
-Alingal
-Bation
-Lomoljo
-Duhaylungsod
 WHAT IS INFORMATION
LITERACY?

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF

THE INFORMATION LITERATE?
 INFORMATION LITERACY
• a basic human right
• a means to empower people in all walks of life
to seek, evaluate, use, and create information
effectively to achieve their personal, social,
occupational, and educational goals
• the path to development, prosperity, freedom
and social inclusion in all nation
 INFORMATION LITERACY
• Refers to ability to know when there is a need
for more information and the ability to locate
,evaluate, and use the right information
according to that need.
 MEDIA LITERACY
• A person’s ability to critically consume,
understand, analyse, evaluate and produce any
type of media.
 TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
• A person’s ability to effectively use technology
tools.
 IMPORTANCE OF
INFORMATION LITERACY
• 1974
• Paul Zurkowski – former President of the US
Information Industry Association.
Category 1: Information literacy

1. The student who is information literate accesses

information efficiently and effectively.
2. The student who is information literate evaluates
information critically and competently.
3. The student who is information literate uses
information accurately and creatively.
Category 2: Independent learning

4. The student who is an independent learner is

information literate and pursues information
related to personal interests.
5. The student who is an independent learner is
information literate and appreciates literature and
other creative expressions of information.
6. The student who is an independent learner is
information literate and strives for excellence in
information seeking and knowledge generation.
Category 3: Social responsibility
1. The student who contributes positively the
learning community and to society is
information literate and recognizes the
importance of information to a democratic
society.
2. The student who contributes positively the
learning community and society is information
literate and practices ethical behaviour in regard
to information and information technology.
3. The students who contributes positively to the
learning community and to society is information
literate and participates effectively in groups to
pursue and generate information.
THE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR
INFORMATION LITERACY
 SIX (6) VITAL CONCEPTS
THAT CAPTURE THE WHOLE
OF INFORMATION
LITERACY
1. Authority is constructed and contextual.
This means that the information literate
individual is able to evaluate the legitimacy and
credibility behind a piece of information.

2.Information creation as a process.

This means that the information literate
individual is able to evaluate not only the content
of the information but also the process involved
in creating this content.
3. Information has value.

This means that the information literate

realizes that even though information can be
accessed for free, it has many forms of value.
Consumer data is a type of information that has
commodity value.