Inforamation Literacy

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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

-John Naisbitt






Information literacy can be defined as " a new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure and its social, cultural, and philosophical context and impact" (Shapiro & Hughes, 1996).



It is one of the prerequisite abilities in this era because we are living in the Information and Global age.



Most of all, students can get access a range of information through internet thanks to the digitalised information as long as they have computer equipments. Thus they confront another concerns that which information should be accepted and which one discarded among the sea of information. Students should get critical literacy in order to resolve this problem. They need to raise the critical awareness when they address inforamtion so that they can interpret intentions between the lines. Likewise, students should be tuaght how to address information by considering a range of messages from various standing points. In this way they can acquire knowledge that can help lead thier lives by processing information through critical awareness.

Why should we adopt multiliteracy approach?

Graphic by Marr R. Kaser(2008). Retrieved 03 May, 2010 from: http://naungancinta.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/multiple-intelligences-which-one-your-learning-style/


As this video clip showes, multiliteracy approach in teaching English is required in order to keep with the changing world. That's because people need to interact people beyond their countries in global age and English is adopted as a global language to communicate people who come from various cultures. Thus the primary outcome of teaching English is how to communicate appropriately with people in the world rather than how to acquire grammatically correct English.
This multiliteracy approach is beneficial not only to communication between different cultures but also to individual learners who have different learning styles. According to the Multiple Intelligences(MI) theory of Howard Gardner, learning can be facilitated by addressing differentiated intelligences such as visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, existential intelligences.
In this way, every single learner can enhance and accelearate learning under the multilieracy approach.

Multiliteracy