Annotated Bibliography Part 1

Information Literacy

For a person to be information literate they must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use the information effectively. Information literacy has become more important for K-12 students due to the constant expansion of our information centric world. As technology grows and information become easier to attain students must become information literate at early ages so they are prepared for secondary education and the workplace. In the early 1980's seminal reports were conducted and they concluded that the "rising tide of mediocrity" was eroding the foundations of the American educational system. This report along with many others that followed, led the American Library Association Presidential Committee (ALA) to take charge of this issue. The ALA Presidential Committee created a National Forum on Information Literacy. This forum is a volunteer network of organizations and was created to raise public awareness on the importance of information technology. This forum help create the first Summit on Inofrmation Literacy which was responsible for creating a national ICT literacy policy council to provide leadership in creating national standards for ITC literacy in the United States.