The Awareness Of The Awareness Of Information Literacy

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

Self-efficacy is a term that was coined by psychologist Albert Bandura, to describe confidence in one’s self to achieve desired goals and complete certain tasks. Self-motivation causes the individuals to push themselves to grow despite challenges. Self-efficacy makes better students and individuals in general because they possess the attitudes that make it easier to win and easily bounce back from failures. Bandura himself had troubles in school that he managed to overcome by his beliefs. At one point he had to take control of his own learning because he was not getting enough from his overworked teachers and lack of text books. Bandura’s success was determined by his ability to keep learning despite the lack of human and material resources. This is the same key element that is needed to develop a mentality of lifelong learning. While this is an important character to possess, self-efficacy is not complete without information literacy. An individual’s motivation to keep learning must be tempered with knowing the correct way to