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¶ … Literacy
The simple discipline of study might seem to broad an area of focus when discussing information literacy, yet it actually provides an excellent avenue for examining how scholarship, practice, and leadership are influenced by the ability to locate and process information. There has unquestionably been a fundamental change in the way information is accessed and approached in modern society; computers and the Internet have now been ubiquitous parts of everyday life for at least a generation, and today's college students have had very little if any schooling where Google was not a part -- if not the only part -- of the research conducted (Russell 2009). While these innovations have made information infinitely more accessible, this has not necessarily been an advantage in all respects, as current research shows.
Scholarship is the primary activity of the academic world, and it has suffered greatly under the burden of the abundant information -- and...
As several authors have noted, students have become so used to making do with the "low-hanging apples" available on the Internet, such that more traditional and more reliable resources such as those found in increasingly foreign places like libraries go increasingly unnoticed and unutilized (Badke 2009; Eisenberg et al. 2005). Scholarship, in other words, has largely become a matter of typing a word in a search box and looking at the top ten results. With true information literacy, the accessibility provided by the World Wide Web makes it the most powerful tool for scholarship in human history many times over; without such literacy, it is a quagmire that bogs down efforts at scholarship.
It has long been observed that information and knowledge obtained at a university is old within five years (Turusheva & Turusheva 2006). The very practice of learning is itself being eroded by the ease of obtaining…
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Eisenberg, M., Lowe, C. & Spitzer, K. (2005). Information literacy: Essential skills for the information age. Library management and professional development.
Russell, P. (2009). Why universities need information literacy now more than ever. Feliciter 55(3): 92-4.
Turusheva, L. & Tusheva, O. (2006). Students' learning skills as a means of specialist development. Information technologies and education. Accessed 12 March 2011. http://aict.itf.llu.lv/files/rakstkraj/2006/Turusheva_2006.pdf
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