{"id":1261,"date":"2017-11-24T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2022-08-06T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T15:44:26","slug":"unesco-and-information-literacy-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/2017\/11\/24\/unesco-and-information-literacy-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO and Information Literacy &#8211; a Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">UNESCO and Information Literacy &#8211; a Review<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">1. Understanding Information Literacy: A Primer<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/UNESCO_Horton_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1259 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/UNESCO_Horton_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>By Forest Woody Horton, Jr., UNESCO, 2008; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220331220024\/http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/resources\/publications-and-communication-materials\/publications\/full-list\/understanding-information-literacy-a-primer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what &#8220;information literacy&#8221; means, designed for busy public policy-makers, business executives, civil society administrators and practicing professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The family of 21st century &#8220;survival literacies&#8221; includes six categories:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the basic or core functional literacy fluencies (competencies) of reading, writing, oralcy and numeracy;<\/li>\n<li>computer literacy;<\/li>\n<li>media literacy;<\/li>\n<li>distance education and e-learning;<\/li>\n<li>cultural literacy; and<\/li>\n<li>information literacy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The boundaries between the various members of this family overlap, but they should be seen as a closely-knit family.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Alexandria Proclamation adopted by the High Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning in November 2005 defines<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> information literacy<\/span> as a means to &#8220;empower people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Zurkowski is almost universally credited with being the first person to use the term &#8220;information literacy&#8221; in 1974. Information literacy offers the promise that people are now able to become independent learners, and critical thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Your competency in applying and utilizing those skills (= search for, retrieve, organize, evaluate and effectively use information) will enable you to make sounder and timelier decisions to cope with your personal and family health and welfare, educational, job-related, citizenship and other challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The paper<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provides 11 steps\/processes of an information literacy life-cycle (Annex B),<\/li>\n<li>9 major recommendations for model strategies, action plans and monitoring mechanisms for information literacy and lifelong learning;<\/li>\n<li>promotes the <strong>Information Literacy Counselor<\/strong>: the central focus of the job would be to provide information literacy and lifelong learning advice and assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">2. Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/UNESCO_Horton_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1260 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/UNESCO_Horton_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>By Forest Woody Horton, Jr., UNESCO, Paris, 2013, ISBN: 978-92-3-001131-4; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220331193756\/http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/resources\/publications-and-communication-materials\/publications\/full-list\/overview-of-information-literacy-resources-worldwide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the foreword:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Citizens, communities and nations require a new set of attitudes, skills and knowledge to create, access, organize, evaluate, use, and communicate data, information and knowledge so as to achieve their personal, social, professional and educational goals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the preface:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A crucial means of selfempowerment is learning <strong>from where to seek, from whom to ask, and then to quickly and easily search for, find, retrieve, digest and use the right information at the right time to solve a problem at hand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This process, which involves critical thinking and information evaluation, is coming to be called <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Information Literacy<\/strong><\/span>. Ideally it should be practiced over a lifetime, which is why it is often coupled with the concept of Lifelong Learning. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This project [The Worldwide Multilingual Information Literacy Resources Project] tries to link language, information literacy and lifelong learning together as a triad of inter-dependent, complementary, and strategic 21st century concepts.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNESCO: &#8220;What information literacy means is that understanding technologies is not enough. What everyone must also do is learn how to utilize those incredibly diverse and powerful technologies efficiently and effectively to search for, retrieve, organize, analyze, evaluate information and then use it for specific decision-making and problem-solving ends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,41,120],"tags":[121,65,123,124,122,60],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-definition","category-information-literacy","category-resources","tag-alexandria-proclamation","tag-critical-thinking","tag-information-evaluation","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-paul-zurkowski","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiciis.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}