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Welcome to the home page of the IRISS Information Literacy Interactive Tutorial. This tutorial was derived from the Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) Information Literacy pack. Objective This tutorial will provide you with an understanding of information literacy in six simple steps. Each step includes activities that will help you develop your information literacy skills.

Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literacies are essentially a set of academic and professional situated practices supported by diverse and changing technologies.

Thanks Anne for highlighting this resource to our group, it is indeed valuable and ended up as suggested resources for topic 2 on the course site!! best wishes Maria

Please use this link instead; http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Aharon_Aviram.htm

From UNESCO

© 2010 Howard Rheingold. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010): 14-24 Howard Rheingold ( howard@rheingold.com) is the author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and other books and is currently lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

An article which posits YouTube as a pedogogical tool for connected learning.

Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement This article proposes a continuum of 'Visitors' and 'Residents' as a replacement for Prensky's much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals' engagement with the Web.

21st Century Fluencies are not about hardware, they are about headware and heartware. Learn how to cultivate these critical skills in yourself and your students.

" Open Education" is a topic which has become increasingly popular in a variety of contexts. This handbook has been written to provide a useful point of reference for readers with a range of different roles and interests who are interested in learning more about the concept of Open Education and to help them deal with a variety of practical situations.

This Jisc Guide presents the results from the research project 'The Visitors and Residents project'. The research project is the background for the videos "Visitors and Residents" and "Credibility" by David White.