Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01038; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <01BD0549.B018AAC0@ppp-46.ts-6.nyc.idt.net> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Susan O'Connor" <bplsko@idt.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:106] RE: Information "Literacy" ??? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: RO ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD0549.B01A3160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In our Library based literacy program, we stress information literacy. = Here it is defined as the ability to access information, process it and = use it to make decisions. This is a vital skill. IT is mandatory that = people have control over the access and personal interpretations of = information. Now reading and writing are intimately involved in using = books, technology, catalogs and the internet. However one can have = these skills and still not be able to navigate successfully the myriad = forms that information is delivered today. Our students learn how to = make databases, so that they can interpret a database, be it in the form = of a chart or a simple listing such as a directory for health care = providers. Librarians have always taught information literacy. The tools have now = changed. Our students are non-readers through a pre-GED level and the = technology has opened the world for them. Susan K. O'Connor Literacy Program Manager Brooklyn Public Library 718-780-7819 -----Original Message----- From: Peggy Lewis [SMTP:mlewis@egusd.k12.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 1997 11:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:102] Information "Literacy" ??? Why is this called information "literacy" when there is so little = reference to actual reading and writing? Why not "knowledge" or "use" of "familiarity" or something that more accurately expresses the idea? It is not my intention to pick on this one usage, but to try to call attention to the widespread misuse of the term. Doesn't "computer literacy" really attempt to describe the ability to use a computer = that goes way beyond reading and writing with and about the machnes? I once saw the term "physical literacy" which at first I took to mean Braille. I later found out that the term referred to the ability to = look at a map and locate an office. Confusing. 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