I’ve been thinking a lot about information literacy vs. media literacy lately. Expect to see a post on the topic soon. In the meanwhile, I came across this video:
It’s a little dramatic, particularly towards the end, but there’s some interesting content there. Particularly when it gets going about how quickly knowledge is being produced and how important jobs in the near future haven’t even been thought of yet. I agree, learning facts can be important, but isn’t it even more important to teach people how to evaluate , think critically, and adapt? Isn’t all of this part of information literacy?
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I came across this last week too! Having seen it twice I agree with you that the point which comes across strongly is that students of the future will need to be able to make sense of their world and the evaluation and critical information literacy angle is the key! Therefore I think that we IL champions have hit the nail on the head (as we British say). The stats in the little film are straggering and would be good to provoke lively debate : I’m sure that some of the predictions could be questioned. I loved the bit about England being top nation in 1900 (to be picky it ought to have been Great Britain or the British Empire) but it caught me out cos I thought they were talking about the present!
Posted 13 Mar 2007 at 5:22 am ¶Thanks for commenting, Peter! I’m with you, some of the video is probably quite questionable, but the boldness and extreme qualities of the video is part of what makes it so thought-provoking, too. I checked out your blog and added it to my reader. I’m looking forward to following your blog… your interests are similar to mine!
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