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SHIFTS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING In an information literate environment, students engage in active, self-directed learning activities, and teachers facilitate students' engagement through a more adventurous style of instructional delivery. Students involved in information literate activities:  --seek a rich range of information sources;  --communicate an understanding of content;  --pose questions about the content being learned;  --use the environment, people, and tools for learning;  --reflect on their own learning;  --assess their own learning; and  --take responsibility for their own learning. These students feel good about themselves as learners, and they leave school feeling passionate about some content.

tudents and teachers make decisions about appropriate sources of information and how to access them

Information literacy thrives in a resource-based learning environment. In such an environment, s

This study aimed to measure the proficiency of college-age health information consumers in finding and evaluating electronic health information; to assess their ability to discriminate between peer-reviewed scholarly resources and opinion pieces or sales pitches; and to examine the extent to which they are aware of their level of health information competency.

health information resources,

55% of Americans with Internet access seek health information online

We need to explicitly develop learning materials and activities that go beyond simple content delivery, or just teaching.

as instructors will need to be creative in developing and assessing these mobile learning activities, instructors and institutions will need to help students be creative in finding access to different mobile multimedia production devices.

The mission of the  National Forum on Information Literacy is to promote and mainstream information literacy at home and abroad.  In doing so, we provide programmatic research and workforce development training activities to a broad spectrum of constituencies in the following areas (1) education and learning, (2) business and economic interests, (3) health and wellness, and (4) government and citizenship.

Reading aloud to children is the best way to get them interested in reading

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ith word games, stories, and books will help your child to

Mobility offers the ability to engage learners of all ages with anywhere, anytime access.

The presence of socially connected, multitasking students in the classroom urges educators to move away from an "information-dissemination" role toward a more interactive, collaborative process in which they guide learners in the skill of evaluating and assessing available information.

creating innovative and interactive learning activities that fully engage learners in experiences they perceive to be both interesting and relevant to their interests and future.

The iPad is far superior to the workbooks- instant, self correcting, gives immediate feedback, kids progress at own levels and can be working at differentiated levels.

Other curriculum areas we use the iPad in are science (as a journal to record our observations) to check the weather, Social Studies- we tweet other kindergarten classrooms and find them on maps and the globe and learn about their lives; comparing similarities and discussing differences and even collaborating on play projects.

That's because Evan and others in first-grade teacher Jodi Conrad's class use Twitter to send out a weekly newsletters, update the days' activities and give parents reminders about upcoming programs.

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"These are tools that come standard in life right now,"