ACRL-VWIG Program February 16, 2014

"Digital Citizenship, Librarians and Information Literacy"
Sunday February 16, 2014, 12-1:30pm SLT (Pacific Time)
Dr. Valerie Hill, (Valibrarian Gregg)

For this program, Valibrarian Gregg shared information about Digital Citizenship, how information literacy is changing and how each learner is responsible for learning to become good digital citizens. Val outlined the 7 elements of Information Literacy  and showed how they could be modeled for learners in a digital participatory culture.

Step 1 was to Identify ones' information needs.

Step 2 was to use critical thinking to ask what you already know.

Step 3 Learn to use many formats and search tools.

Step 4 Requires that learners question and analyze the enormous amount of information available in various media formats in order to locate and access useful information.

Step 5 involves learning how to become ethical digital citizens by learning cyber-safety, respect for intellectual property and good communication skills.

Step 6 involves providing learners with opportunities to create content through both individual and networked activities.

Step 7 requires self-assessment.  Learners must reflect on how well they did.

In a global digital culture, digital citizenship cannot be separated from information literacy.

The program ended with Val reviewing some of the ways librarians can teach Information Literacy Skills and Digital citizenship by providing users with help in: evaluating websites, learning the in's and outs of intellectual property, providing cyber-safety/privacy help and by providing content curation.