December 25th, 2009
I am studying the notion of information literacy and am wondering if it’s redundant to say information literacy. Wouldn’t a literate person also be information literate or does it depend on a component of technological literacy (like knowing how to access the Internet and databases, etc.).
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Not necessaily. I consider myself to be a very literate person in the traditional meaning of the word, but when it comes to ‘information literacy’, I am a technological klutz. It would help if there was a precise definition of what you mean by ‘information literacy’ as it has many aspects apart from ‘technological literacy’. An interesting question.
As I understand the changes and or the semantics no, one can be literate in a general learned way but if in current context they were unable to access and process/disseminate information they would not be information literate. The requirement is very strong to be computer literate which today means more than checking emails and surfing. Use of search engines, processing programs. In today’s time knowing how much information suffices is very important as is knowing what data supports a thesis or supposition. Librarians are back in the limelight.
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