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To combat our growing concerns about fake news and filter bubbles, we're going to have to take the task of information literacy more seriously.

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Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

Data analysis suggested that emotional intelligence (EI) was a significant predictor of information literacy scores: the more EI a person had, the higher his or her information literacy score.

The aims of the lessons are to: -: develop student's digital literacies -: help them to think more critically about online information -: develop their ability discuss and develop ideas around information and understand how it applies to their own lives.

Just as technology - infused instruction has moved out of the computer lab, we will see media literacy begin to move across the curriculum, especially as teachers rely more and more on online resources and the access that students have to the internet for information.

Teaching media literacy is not new, but with the explosion of social media and the lightning speeds at which information is shared, critical evaluation skills have never been more important.

Exploiting Infographics follows on from 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy, which is a collection of lesson plans based around infographics, and looks in more depth at the genre and how infographics can be used as both sources of information and as creative learning tasks for students.

As our libraries evolve in the age of digital information, they need our help more than ever to stay well - funded and supported so they can grow in their critical role as advocates of technology and information literacy.

To the full International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2013 national report, Australian students» readiness for study, work and life in the digital age, click on the link, or for more on the report's findings, check out this infographic.

The traditional domain of a librarian — information literacy — is more closely linked to educational technology than we might imagine.

Technology and information - literacy skills were to be center stage in supporting these goals — at a minimum, we wanted to start moving away from the more traditional textbook - style instruction.

For more literacy tips, resources and information, visit www.literacytrust.org.uk/schools.

For more detailed information and previews of these popular Literacy / English resources, please click on the individual resources.

It seems as though there's a minimal threshold and once that minimal threshold of access to ICT and the internet has been met, the challenge in developing computer and information literacy comes down to providing coherent and considered learning programs, rather than necessarily just providing more technology for the students.

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For more information about strategies such as Balanced Literacy, Literature Circles, and Reading Workshop, visit the Literacy Strategies section.

We would have liked a more useful writing measure, and, in our future work, we will ensure that we get reliable information on this important aspect of literacy acquisition.

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As we've shared with you in recent weeks, our newly launched resource Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age, co-created with the News Literacy Project, explores the events and «information aftermath» surrounding the death of Michael Brown to help students learn how to use news literacy skills to become more critical consumers, creators, and amplifiers of news and infoLiteracy in a Digital Age, co-created with the News Literacy Project, explores the events and «information aftermath» surrounding the death of Michael Brown to help students learn how to use news literacy skills to become more critical consumers, creators, and amplifiers of news and infoLiteracy Project, explores the events and «information aftermath» surrounding the death of Michael Brown to help students learn how to use news literacy skills to become more critical consumers, creators, and amplifiers of news and infoliteracy skills to become more critical consumers, creators, and amplifiers of news and information.

When asked for more information, parents and teachers loved the fact that when their children were on the devices, the eWriters focused students on their literacy activities and prevented them from being distracted by other apps and games.

By teaching kids digital citizenship, those students can take what they learned home to help their parents become more digitally literate, said Paul Lawrence, the district's information literacy director.

For more information about an innovative early literacy program, be sure to read «Increasing Early Literacy in Rural Communities» in this issueliteracy program, be sure to read «Increasing Early Literacy in Rural Communities» in this issueLiteracy in Rural Communities» in this issue of RPM.

To help you respond to parents» questions and concerns regarding Common Core State Standards, we've created resources that clearly outline essential information, highlighting common core math standards, common core literacy standards, common core standards for English language arts (ELA), kindergarten common core standards, and more.

If you are interested in more detailed information about implementing writing centers in the middle or secondary grades, download Literacy and Learning Centers: Not Just For The Primary Grades by Dr. Katherine McKnight.

School officials must realize the importance of a school library because information literacy and technology are more important than ever.

While the measure is obviously not aimed at reducing literacy or blocking access to entertainment, education, or information, it is instead an unfortunate... [Read more...]

In a society growing more and more dependent on information literacy we can not justify failing to educate our children in these critical skills.

For more information on Financial Literacy Month activities, check out this page here.

Your employees will also have access to other financial literacy information and tools, including financial calculators, videos, webinars, articles and more.

For more information about Visaâ $ ™ s financial literacy program, please contact us via the methods below.

At present, IEF offers more than 20 calculators, as well as hundreds of information sheets on everything from the basics of financial literacy, to questions you should ask your adviser.

For more information, take a look at the online professional development module Introduction to Consumer and Financial Literacy Education in Australia.

For more information about Animal Friends» Literacy Services, or to learn how to become a volunteer with the Reading with Rover or PALS programs, please contact Leah Carlson at [email protected] or 412.847.7042.

It would be super useful to have even more information on Pew's new science literacy test.

True, years of promoting filling the information deficit with more facts hasn't worked, but the current «literacy bashing,» repeated in climate blogs and conversations, is unfortunate, oversimplified and, to be blunt, nonsense.

The law librarians» responsibilities for teaching and providing research instruction to the law students is considerably more extensive and intensive than the general «information literacy» programs offered by non-law librarians.

Students are receiving more instruction, prior to law school, on digital literacy, and law teachers are adapting to the new information literacy, 81 but most teachers believe that the ability to access so much information is creating weaker, more distracted researchers.82

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It makes no mention of online information literacy, using more than one tool, using free vs. fee based resources.

«Until legal research providers begin to open up their black boxes and adopt more Algorithmic Accountability, researchers will need to expand our own legal information literacy with a better understanding of how each database compiles, categorizes, indexes, searches, and prioritizes the results.»

As I was in Melbourne undertaking some research on legal information literacy, I was more attuned than normal to the issues being discussed, and when I heard the familiar complaints about the inadequacy of research skills of newly appointed law graduates, I felt as though the clock had been turned back 20 years, and I was the one complaining.

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Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

Consumer issues: reduce out - of - pocket costs, particularly for disadvantaged consumers; improved health literacy; more performance information for consumers; increased involvement in resource allocation decisions.

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