information culture literacy
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It's time to move beyond information literacy and take up the task of understanding and disseminating information culture.TRANSCRIPT
Thinking Bigger: Information Culture Literacy
James W.Marcum, PhD
Queens College GSLIS, City University of new York
INFORMATION LITERACY: LEGACY AND PROMISE
Achievements: IL lectures and presentations Courses Core requirements Accreditation expectations Adoption as basic human right (UNESCO)
Criticisms Too narrow (academic/library) About ‘information’ and the internet Lack of agreement about its “name” Lack of support administrative; invisible
Amazon: Top (selling) 55 books on IL 13 Teaching and instruction ~ 5 Effectiveness Assessment Student engagement Offering IL Online Improving IL services (and thereby the library)
NOT MUCH ABOUT SUCH LITERACIES AS: Media, Visual, Multi-media, Network, ICT
OR SUCH TOPICS AS: Multi-cultural, Self-knowledge, Career preparation realities,
Knowledge-building,
SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS OF IL Locked in to traditional educational practice
Information search and use Instruction based Content transfer – generic Some skill development – generic Push paradigm: what’s known to those who don’t
yet… When what’s needed is
Learning based Learning and research methods (for “discovery”) Pull the information and knowledge to where it is
needed Contextual skills needed by individual or group
So, where does IL stand? NAME? IL, ITL, ITC, Info Fluency, Media ,
Visual??
BIGGER: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
CHALLENGES: Information Culture Literacy
Libraries, especially those in academe, must be prepared to deal with several major issues already visible today: Networks: not yet utilizing their power The New Knowledge; just Big Data? Media and Visual Literacy 21st Century Skills Open Education Reading and Research Corporate challenge over intellectual content
Each challenge also provides an opportunity for IL practitioners and their sponsoring libraries
CHALLENGES: NETWORKS
Ongoing Transformation: What REALLy characterizes our ‘age’?
-Network(Communication)
-Learning(Developmen
t)
Ongoing Transformation : What characterizes our ‘age’?
-Network(Communication)
-Learning(Developmen
t)
Challenge: New Knowledge
Parallelcomputing
Field Research
Big Bang
Theory
CLOUD COMPUTING
Stem-cell
Genomesequencin
g
“A visual culture is taking over the world”
Our literacy and communication skills in decline Not dealing with the visual ecology/telematic
embrace• Factors: (beyond media, MTV, entertainment)
Design replacing planning and freelancing Architecture, fashion, or new initiatives
Slow death of newspaper/print culture John Naisbitt, Mind Set! (2006): 113-155.
Morphing images: How can you trust …?
Visualizing top US population centers
Visua
l
Telecomm
ALL
SEPARATE
21st Century Skills Information, Media, Technology
Information, Media, ICT Literacy Life and Career Skills
Adaptability Initiative Accountability Leadership
Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity and Innovation Crtical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration
(Consultants, Associations over “professors”
CORPORATE / MEDIA POWER
BIG
GAP
ICT / MEDIA
CORPORATE CULTURE
INFORMATION CULTURE (IC)Not yet an established term, concept
Some intenational definitions and approaches Not “information society” (ITL) but “information
culture” encompasses “social, cultural, and economic transformations” * Gendina, Info. Culture in Information Society
From culture of information to “informational culture,” ie from search, use of information to empowerment to participaten today’s IC; empowered to the new “life”
Y. Maury, University of Artois
IC as librarians’ space we “do not own;” blogs and social media a essential today, so IC belongs to the young
O. Le Deuff, Bordeaux
IL socially constructed, trial and error, learn from practice
A. Lloyd, Australia
Getting Beyond Instruction
Authority figure
Passive learning
Faculty-focused
Discipline-
determined
Context-free
Grades as purpose
TO INQUIRY &DISCOVERY
Research
COMMUNITIE
S
OF PRATICE
Inquiry
Identity
LIBRARY ReGENESIS Developing new roles beyond
Information artifacts Study places Community gatherings IL for everyday information (community, jobs,
health) To bigger visions:
Collaborative knowledge creation (Lankes) Experiential Learning Centers of Learning
Literacies, from Reading to Research … to Library College of Inquiry and Discovery
PERSONAL INFORMATION CULTUREIncludes one’s “personal outlook”(motivation, system
of knowledge and skills), autonomous interaction for successful professional engagement.
N. Gendina, Kemerovo Research Insititute, Kuzbas, Russia
Move beyond “search and use” information to Utilizing the power of the Network to create
“systems” identifying expertise, skills, experience available “everywhere” and deliverable “anywhere”
Supporting development of identity and life planning as the foundation of Personal information Culture
Utilizing informal learning as well as formal Open Education (not just Open Access) DIY U
Informatorium
Research and development for a newgeneration space of information culture• Hyperintegrated space for every aspects of information culture• Tools, services, activities, communities• Dissemination, exhibition, incubation, training• Simultaneously working space, demonstrationspace and event venue• Visitors, students, teachers, researchers, decision makers, public servants, businessmen
University of SzegedHungarian IFAP Committee
László Z. KARVALICShttp://www.ifapcom.ru/files/News/Images/2012/mil/
Karvalics.pdf
LIBRARY COLLEGE OF INQUIRY AND DISCOVERY (LCID)
Interface for participation: Local “tutors” (for novices)
Linked to other “expertise” (scholars/academicians) to serve the next level of “literates” needing direction
Utilizing the valuable resources already gathered and made available (increasing the value)
Profession create its own “documenting/ credentialing” program as is common in “professional development”
Formal, for credit AND informal learning
TWO PATHS for LIS DEGREE PATH: Bachelors, Masters, Doctorates
PATH addressing the challenges of INFORMATION CULTURE and not just “access and use” Networks: not yet utilizing their power The New Knowledge; just Big Data? Media and Visual Literacy 21st Century Skills Open Education Reading and Research Corporate challenge over intellectual content
TOO BIG for our traditional practice (Weinberger)
The METHODOLOGY is Available Guided Inquiry:
Rich learning environment Intervention, at critical moment Frequent feedback Assessment Connects learning to students’ “life,” interests,
goals, questions C. Kuhlthau, et al. (2007) Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st
Century.
But don’t have to stop at IL/Learning divide