Information Fluency: More Than Literacy
Information Fluency (IF) - the foundation for emerging literacies and not synonymous with "information literacy" or "digital fluency" - expands and builds upon the base of traditional digital literacy to include three different areas of critical thinking skills, discipline-specific knowledge, and participatory agility. This session will:
- present a brief "Theory of Everything" synthesizing existing technology/education/cultural theories,
- demonstrate the critical importance of Information Fluency and how it embodies a digital divide that dwarfs the traditional access divide in scope and importance,
- elaborate on the three components of IF, including the increasingly common issues resulting from having strengths in only one or two of the areas, and
- share some practical approaches to the problem of fostering IF for educators and institutions from the perspectives of administration, instructional design, and faculty.
