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Mar 26, 2008
Community college libraries in the United States and Canada are seeing a huge demand for information-literacy courses. According to the article, such courses "help students find, communicate, and critically evaluate online information."
What they're calling "information literacy," which is what I'd call "qualifying online sources," I briefly cover in the Media Diet chapter of Bit Literacy. This is indeed an important skill, but it's just a small percentage of what students really need in order to survive in the networked workplace. Students need all the skills of bit literacy, not just qualifying their sources.
(Thanks, Philip B)
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