Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Information Literacy and Student-centered Learning


Coalescing thoughts - What is the relationship between information literacy and student-centered learning?  Typically the need for information literacy is associated with information ubiquity. However, doesn't active learning require students to engage with materials to create meaning rather than passively receiving information? Would not this, at least sometimes, involve locating, and certainly evaluating and applying information to learn? While I see in the literature references to needing to teach students information literacy skills in a student-centered way, I haven't as of yet seen mention of a relation between the developments of the two concepts. More to come on this...