In order to implement lifelong learning among students, library media teachers also known as teacher librarians should perform information literacy instruction in their school with the collaboration with school teachers in lessons planning. The American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st Century Leaner (2007) mentions that school libraries are essential to the development of learning skills. However, are library media teachers capable and competence to perform their roles towards information literacy very well and does all school teachers really realize and understand about the roles of library media teachers? What are the teachers’ perceptions towards the role of library media teacher? The Library Association of Malaysia feels that if it is to be cost effective in supporting quality education, the person in charge of the library must be a person above of average capabilities who has a considerable degree of expertise in the fields of both library science and education (Winslade, 1979). All the questions can be answered by investigating the teachers’ perception on the roles of library media teachers.
In Malaysia, beginning 2006, the government has started entrusting qualified teachers as library media teachers in every school (Abrizah & Zainab, 2008). The roles of library media teachers are very important in every school. This is because they will help in developing information literate person. They are also information experts who help in developing information literacy skills among school students by cooperating with other school teachers to make sure learning become more effective and efficient including cooperating in administrative operation. The Association of Teacher-Librarianship of Canada (1998), po...
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Information literacy (IL) is a foundation of lifelong learning platform in different academic domains (Baro, Endouware, Ubogu 2011). Moreover, IL able to empower students to define the problem, initiate a strategy to search information; locate and access resources; utilize the information; synthesis information (Ojedokun, 2007). Due to lack of IL skills is a major cause of under-utilization of existing information sources and resources. IL skills help to develop students' academic communication skills which are associated with the nature and magnitude of the information; effectively and efficiently use the information; critically and incorporates utilizes its sources own study; individual learner. Additionally, IL assist to students understands
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The main objective of this paper is to bring about the awareness of Information Literacy by highlighting its need and how important it is for lifelong learning. The information is this paper was gathered from the EbscoHost database, Google Books, and articles from the internet. The researcher discovered that many students lacked the knowledge of information literacy, and they were also unable to turn in good research papers. In addition, people outside the school system would not able to advance in their career because they didn’t know how to evaluate sources outside the school system. Students will not be equipped to keep abreast with new knowledge when they are not information literate. It is recommended that information literacy become a part of every school curriculum, so individuals can become self-directed
culture and what it means to be literate in the 21st century. The implications for teachers,
Media has grown drastically over the last 100 years, and we have become accustomed to it being a part of our everyday lives. Media is such an influential part of our society that we forget that not all media is created equally. Media has become so widespread that we might be oblivious to the messages right in front of our faces. Media such as television, newspaper, radio, Internet, social media, and billboards have created an information epidemic that has the ability to influence a person’s thoughts and ideas. Media literacy is a tool that allows people to take information and evaluate it so they can form their own thoughts and ideas about the information presented to them. Media literacy allows people to decipher information that is opinionated,
Although there have been many attempts to define media literacy – most notably by Aufderheide in 1992, who defined it as “the ability of a citizen to access, analyze, and produce information for specific outcomes” - a universally accepted definition has yet to be formed. Even a definition used in regulation on a European level may not encompass all that some scholars wish to include. This is in part, because a variety of related concepts such as information literacy, digital literacy, library literacy, network literacy and computer literacy, are often used in the same breath as or even interchangeably with media literacy. As Bawden remarks, some scholars see media literacy as a part of the broader concept of information literacy and the relationships between and overlap with these different concepts should be taken into account when examining media literacy. With that in mind, Bawden describes media literacy as a term which implies “critical thinking in assessing information gained from the mass media: television, radio, newspapers and magazines, and increasingly the internet”. Ward, however, argues that distinctions made between these different concepts are only a matter of
As a teacher, is very important to use a wide range of learning and teaching resources, from books or other printed materials so, that students are encouraged to explore issues of interest,
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Books are the oldest medium of communication. Book has been the largest surviving source of print media. Although modern technology and electronic media have greatly influenced the mindset of people, books are still referred as the most essential tool to gain knowledge and information. History recalls that education and learning reached towards every person after print media; especially after printing of books. Preservation of information, education and past events of history have been stored and known to us only because of the influencing and effective books.