Information Literacy in Education

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“As our world becomes more technological and globally interconnected, it’s increasingly imperative superintendents and cabinet members understand how to best facilitate student acquisition of so-called 21st century skills.” (Mcleod, 2007) The proficiency level of information literacy of the students, teachers, and administrators across the country is dropping to its lowest point in years. Within the education field, the responsibility to increase the rigor and raise the standards and expectations rests solely upon the shoulders of the building and district administration. Information literacy is a necessary skill that has been slowly eroding over the past two decades. By applying these abilities proficiently to the Scholarship-Practice-Leadership model, K-12 administrators will dramatically increase their personal learning levels, understand how to better transfer these skills to others within their learning communities, and ultimately produce a positive change upon their students and faculty within their school systems with their leadership.

Deep within the core of most school administrators there lies a built in need for new knowledge. Unfortunately, many of the leaders within the schools today have lost touch with the importance of and the skills required to obtain new knowledge on an ongoing basis. “Information competence is a basis for long-life learning competence. It is necessary in any way of learning, it makes learning needs-oriented, more self-directed.” (Turusheva, 2009) Professional development opportunities within the districts may serve to fill in some gaps, but it’s really the responsibility of the individual administrator to continue his or her education and improve their information literacy skills. Post-graduat...

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...or centuries.” (Badke, 2009) Through personal education, an administrator will be able to effective bring current information literacy data to the classrooms and ultimately transform the habits and skills mastery of his or her graduates.

Works Cited

Badke, W. (2009, July/August). How we failed the net generation. ONLINE, 33(4), 47.

Mcleod, S. (2007, November). Responsibility for asking the right questions. School Administrator, 64(10), 8.

Rowlands, I. (2007). Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future. London: University College London.

Russell, P. (2009). Why universities need information literacy now more than ever. Feliciter, 55(3), 92.

Schmoker, M. (2007). Results Now. New York, NY: ASCD.

Turusheva, L. (2009). Students' information competence and its importance for life-long education. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 12(126), 126.

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