- information technology literacy: an understanding of technology, the tools technology provides, and the legal, social, economic, and public policy issues which shape the use of technology
- information literacy: deals with content and communication; authoring, info. finding and organization, the research process, info. analysis, assessment and evaluation. Content can be text, images, video, computer simulations, multi-media interactive works. (Content serves many purposes: news, art, entertainment, education, research and scholarship, advertising, politics, commerce, documents that structure activities of everyday business and personal life.)
Both are essential to function and succeed in today's society. Distinct, but inter-related. Need to be closely coordinated when taught.
- People with Information Technology Literacy Demonstrate:
Emphasis in the use of tools: word processing, spread sheets, basic operation of computers, use of Internet tools, a superficial knowledge of programming language.
Skills with tools become outdated very quickly with today's technology life cycle.
To learn the principles of how these infrastructure components work, how they have evolved, and what the key issues are is more valuable, but takes longer to convey and absorb. However, this type of understanding will be increasingly critical to function as an informed citizen.
- People with Information Literacy Demonstrate:
The assessment of purpose, bias, accuracy, and quality needs to be extended from text to the full range of visual and multi media communication genres.
A knowledge of interactive media, the fluid nature of digital forms, plus an understanding of the computer's ability to edit or fabricate factual events.
An understanding of how search systems work.
They have formed a conceptual map of information space (what's available to them from documents on the Internet, databases, and library collections).
They need to develop a sense of what info. is most appropriate for their needs.
They will have to learn to assess info. through the lenses of: legal, social, economic, ethical issues of intellectual property; privacy questions; authenticity of info.
