Information Literacy Awareness Month: a Round-Up of Resources

The development of information literacy skills allows students to become astute and thoughtful consumers and creators of information. October is Information Literacy Awareness Month, offering a great way to introduce or reinforce this necessary skill set to your young readers. We’ve put together this round-up of helpful resources and articles by fellow educators:

• SOS for Information Literacy - Lesson plans and teaching ideas; one of the Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by AASL
• Critical Analysis and Information Literacy by Judy Willis, MD on Edutopia.org
• 13 Tips for Teaching News and Information Literacy from School Library Journal
• The Common Thread: Weaving information literacy skills to engage learners from Kathy Schrock
• Media-, News-, and Information-Literacy Resources for Students from Common Sense Education
• Teaching Information Literacy Skills from Reading Rockets
• 10 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation
• TED Ed lessons – videos related to information literacy
• A good idea - Resources for parents on information literacy from an elementary school website
  
  

Information Literacy encompasses knowledge of one’s information concerns and needs, and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address issues or problems at hand; it is a prerequisite for participating effectively in the Information Society, and is part of the basic human right of lifelong learning.
–The Prague Declaration of 2003, “Towards an Information Literate Society”