| FEATURES
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| Building and Using a Tool to Assess Info and Tech Literacy
Students who are information-literate can find data and evaluate it to
see whether it’s trustworthy. But they need to be able to do more than
that. They have to be able to digest the data they find and manipulate
it to deliver it to others in useful ways. In order to measure this
whole skills set, the Educational Testing Service worked with
librarians to design a test that will assess both information literacy
and technology literacy. Here’s the whole story.
By Stephanie Sterling Brasley |
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Teaching People to Be Savvy Travelers in a Technological World
When you teach people about information technology, are your lessons
geared toward teaching a certain skill so the people can pass a certain
test or class? Why not teach them broader concepts instead? That way
they come away with knowledge they can build on for years, rather than
skills they can use for a few months. This librarian details eight
steps for teaching long-term technological literacy.
By Brenda Hough |
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How Gaming Could Improve Information Literacy 
Most students aren’t exactly thrilled about learning library skills, no
matter how much they need them. So why not customize the training for
the audience? Teens love games, especially electronic ones. This author
tells you how gaming can become part of your information literacy
training and how games can help you entice students to learn.
By Ameet Doshi |
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| DEPARTMENTS |
Editor’s Notes
Testing for Great Testers
By Kathy Dempsey |
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Tech Tips for Every Librarian
Ten Tips for Technology Training
By Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens |
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| Books to Check Out |
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| Noted & Quoted |
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| Newsline |
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Newsline Reports
Bits and Bytes from CIL 2006
By Kathy Dempsey |
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| COLUMNS
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AccessibleIT
Hello IM, Goodbye TTY
By Lori Bell and Tom Peters |
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Building Digital Libraries
Breaking into Communities of Practice
By Terence K. Huwe |
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Online Treasures
Information Literacy and Technology—They Work Best When They Work Together
By Janet L. Balas |
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The Systems Librarian
Web 2.0? Let’s Get to Web 1.0 First
By Marshall Breeding |
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