Reviewing the Key Literacy of Information Literacy
Greg Bem
Now that you have examined both assessment and information literacy at greater length, what are your thoughts? What would you like to apply as you consider your own program or course in the context of the information literacy key literacy?
Take some time to reflect on where you might begin. Examining what is lacking is always balanced with examining what is present. Much of our work in higher education already involves (and has normalized) the use of information as it is related to the academic disciplines and workforce outcomes of our curricula. The question is to formalize what we are doing and what we can be doing as educators and as designers of our curricula in the context of the information literacy key literacy.
Consider the value of descriptive language throughout the structures that go into your academic materials. For example, review an assignment that involves information to some degree and assess it in the context of information literacy. You may need a sentence or a page to describe how it connects to the information literacy key literacy. Can’t find a way to connect point A to point B? Consider evolving your assignment to be more direct: how could students accomplish the skills of information literacy in the work of the assignment?
