On June 16th, I wrote 'Literacies, Schmliteries' - a sort of frustrated hiccup about the birth of yet another type of literacy.“Art does not evolve by itself, the ideas of people change and with them their mode of expression” Pablo Picasso, 1923I mentioned that I had developed a taxonomy of literacies for a lecture given a couple of years previously. At that time, I understood the literacy map like this:Visual literacy / audio /reading /writing IT, ICT and ‘ECDL’ Technological literacyMedia literacy Independent learning skills Research skills / research methodology Library skills Information literacy... and now there is also 'transliteracy'.Sheila Webber recently spoke at Umbrella and offered an excellent map of information literacy research, which she has now made available on...
As someone who has responded to Michael Gorman's postings on the Britannica Blog concerning web2.0, I have watched other responses with interest. Some few were formally asked to respond to the postings, and the last of these - by danah boyd (an ee cummings-like persona) - was Knowledge Access as a Public Good. I suppose that, in general, I agreed with Ms Boyd (a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communications) expressing as she does the thought that you shouldn't blame the medium for the message (you read it here first!), although much of what she says is generalisation rather than response. She does say that:The society that he laments has lost faith in the public good. Elitism and...
Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the woods, and most people have some understanding of what information literacy is...... despite the slightly confusing 'media literacy', I was fairly happy with the taxonomy of literacies I developed for a lecture in Sheffield and which I have since used in one or two workshops. Now, Sheila Webber's blog tells us that there is a new kid on the block. Enter 'Transliteracy', defined as: the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. Sounds a lot like Ofcom's 'media literacy' ("the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts") to me, but see The PART (Production and...
Congratulations to CILIP's Information Literacy Group (ILG) (as reported in the March Update 6(3) and the Information Literacy Blog) on their success in persuading the DfES that the school curriculum in England needs to incorporate effective information literacy training when changes are made in 2008-9.The Update article (page 3) goes on to report that: "DfES Deputy Director for Curriculum Julie Bramman has since notified the Training Development Agency, with the implication that the ILG will help develop training materials for teachers, as well as pupils.">>Technorati tags: CILIP; DfES; informationliteracy; education; curriculum; teacher_training>>IceRocket tags: CILIP; DfES; informationliteracy; education; curriculum;...
The following text comes from Sheila Webber's Information Literacy Weblog, which reminded me to announce the launch of both The Information Literacy Website and the Journal of Information Literacy here:
One important event at the LILAC conference was the launch of the Information Literacy Website, a new UK portal to information literacy information. It is a product of a partnership between the CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group, SCONUL, Museums and Libraries Association, and Higher Education Academy. It is generously being hosted by Eduserv. There has been a collaborative approach to content gathering, and Ruth Stubbings from Loughborough University has been coordinating this initiative. The website was officially “unveiled” by Jonathan Douglas from the MLA. It is to be found at...
