As of Today I am Renaming This Blog!

Ah, I got it. I started this blog when I started my doctoral studies and then promptly realized that I wasn't ready to share a lot about my initial journey at that point. Too much new thinking to do. Yeah, yeah, maybe that is a reflection of leftover 20th century ways of going about things. Anyways, hence I did not produce too many blog entries. But now I think I have found the path and thus plan to communicate in this forum more regularly having now figured out what it is I want to talk about and discuss.

My journey of researching information literacy has led me to focus both my research and practice on "informed learning," which you will remember from an earlier post is a theoretical construct identified by Christine Bruce (2008). At the heart, informed learning is a pedagogy that emphasizes teaching in ways that enable students to learn how to use information while learning the subject. I believe the pedagogic ideas inherent in informed learning are key to developing learners capable of successfully navigating the evolving information environment.

I can already hear colleagues saying, well what about other emerging theories, such as transliteracy. I have been listening on the fringes of late to the conversation about the implications of transliteracy to information literacy. For my part, I think transliteracy extends the concepts underpinning information literacy very nicely and the two fit together quite well. I think the same is true of transliteracy and informed learning - one big happy family of theories for understanding the complexities we live with and need to work out daily. But lets save going deeper with this discussion for another entry.

Onward!

Bruce, C. (2008). Informed learning. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.