Information Literacy (Blog #2)
Information literacy requires being able to locate and evaluate various sources to fulfill an information need. For many people, that means using technology or media of some kind . Reading through The Big6 (Eisenberg & Berkowitz , 1990 ), I recognized it as something I had both taught and used myself, while not knowing it had a formal name. I think we assume most people are information literate, but it appears to be the opposite many times . Information seeking is much more involved than typing a keyword or question into Google. In some ways, technology has complicated the quest for information . Clay Johnson a lluded to this in The Liturgists podcast episode . With the advent of the internet, and especially social media, the amount of mis-, dis-, and mal-information has increased dramatically (Gungor & Science Mike, 2017) . Locating credible sources and evaluating the information takes many more steps than it did when we could simply pull a ...