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This piece articulates why students need to be taught information literacy skills and be exposed to a variety of information sources on the web. "Students today write reports from information they find on the internet. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. Students are making connections with many different kinds of people, actively looking for and soliciting different points of view. They need to develop the skill to work out just who are the experts are in the crowd and then using a "blend of personal and social information" to predict the best solution,create the best content and ask the best questions."

Food for thought in terms of what students know about internet information and what we teach them.

Video. What is PIL? Project Information Literacy is a national (US) study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age

Unquestioning reliance on automation can, and has, led to disasters. This is one of the major reasons why teacher-librarians, librarians and other information professionals need to very diligently to ensure digital information literacy skills are learnt by everyone in the community. We all need to be in control of our technologies, not allow our technologies dictate to us.

School Libraries and Information Literacy links Internet sites linked here support aspects of the professional and collaborative work of teacher-librarians. They include some intranet sites that only NSW Departmental schools can access. The views expressed by individual Web sites are not necessarily those of the NSW Department of Education and Communities.

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

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Contains information and screen casts about how to teach better searching techniques to students. This article ties in with the ideas of e-learning and digital literacy.