Information Literacy

Since technology is expanding every day, it makes it harder and harder for people, especially students to become information literate. Wikipedia defines information literacy as "the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand." The internet makes it both easier and harder to use the information needed. Some information might not be from a reliable source. Yet there are many different places to be able to find information. We are able to help our students become information literate, but most of that is on them to explore their sources and also spend time with the different sources. We can try our hardest to help kids become effective users of the internet. We can teach them how to find reliable sources and how to search for specific keywords. We can give them all the tools, but it is up to the students to become literate themselves.