Abby Day

EDCI 270

9/17/14


Part 1

Information Literacy







Part 2)

Reference List and Work Cited

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Part 3)

In Enhancing Learning with Technology, the authors of the article write about
the effectiveness of online learning and how students of the 21
st
century are responding to
online learning. They also discuss what are students wanting to gain from online learning
and how it can be used to enhance education.

Foote, S., & Mixson-Brookshire, D. (2014). Enhancing Learning with
Technology: Applying the Findings from a Study of Students in Online, Blended,
and Face-to-Face First-Year Seminar Classes. Currents In Teaching & Learning

This article is about online learning and how different cultures as well as international
students are conducting online learning in their education systems. Sadykova writes about
how online learning has changed education in the class room around the world.

Sadykova, G. (2014). Mediating Knowledge through Peer-to-Peer Interaction in a
Multicultural Online Learning Environment: A Case Study of International
Students in the US. International Review Of Research In Open & Distance
Learning,

Online learning takes a lot of discipline for students because they are doing most of their
learning experience on their own. That is why the authors of this article named You and
Kang, wrote an article discussing the emotions and struggles students go through during
online classes and online learning tools.

You, J., & Kang, M. (2014). The role of academic emotions in the
relationship between perceived academic control and self-regulated
learning in online learning. Computers & Education






















Part 4)

Information Literacy


In education it is a teachers responsibility to do their best to make sure their
students have the skills set needed to reach their full potential every year they are in
school. Teachers need to inspire their students to be life long learners and critical
thinkers. That is why learning about information literacy is so important. The point of
education is not to memorize a bunch of facts and equations (although those are
important too), education is mostly about finding information and then knowing how to
use it. Critical thinkers know how to use information and apply it to their daily lives.
Anyone who owns any form of digital technology knows that finding information
is never an issue. Type up any key words in Google or any other search tool and one will
often find hundreds to thousands to millions of links related to that topic. Information is
literally available to us 24/7. However, there is a down side to having so much
information. The problem for 21
st
century teachers and students now is finding ways to
know how to use the information once they find it. The ISTE (which stands for
International Society for Technology in Education) gives several different standards that
explain how teachers are to use information in the digital world.

According to the Association of College & Research Libraries or ACRL, having a
multitude of information formats, does not make an informational literate society or
community (ACRL). A community becomes informational literate when they know how
to use the information, what information to use for a given situation and how to properly
give cite of give credit to the owner of the information that is being used (ACRL). The
ISTE standards for teachers explain that teachers need to guide students to be able to find
information (ISTE). They can do this by explaining that not all information is correct nor
reliable. Certain websites could be useful if one wanted to get a general idea about a
topic, but it would not be the best scours to use for professional or academic purposes
because the content on these certain websites are not checked for accuracy. Anyone can
say whatever he or she wants on these websites, which makes them not reliable resources
to use. Unfortunately there are tones of websites, blogs, social media and other digital
formats that produce wrong information. At the same time, there are also many quality
places one can go to find accurate information. Going to an online library is a good place
to start because often, these online libraries will have scholarly and peer reviewed articles
and journals about a multitude of topics. These kinds of informational formats are reliable
because they have been written by professionals and have been reviewed by professionals
before the information is published. That is the kind of information teachers should tell
their kids to watch out for. This will make them more informed about the kind of
information that is out there and give them the skills to sort out information so they can
narrow down their research.
Another part of the ISTE standards for 21
st
century teachers, explains that it is
important for teachers to teach their students to be ethical citizens of information
(ISTE, 2014). What this means, is that teachers need to explain to their students that they
need to always cite their sources and never take credit for work that is not theirs.

Over all, the important part of informational literacy is clear. As technology
advances, it will be used more and more in the classroom. 21
st
century teachers need to be
able to understand it, so they can show their students how to use it. They need to show
their students how to access all the information the digital world has to offer so they can
use it well. This is so students can accomplish critical thinking skills and apply the
information they discover.




































Work Cited


Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. (n.d.). Retrieved September
15, 2014, from Association of College & Research Libraries website:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency
ISTE Standards Teachers . (n.d.). Retrieved September 15, 2014, from ISTE Standards website:
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-T_PDF.pdf