METALITERACY Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners

• Main Authors: Mackey, Thomas P. (Author), Jacobson, Trudi E (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chiacago American Library Association 2014
• Subjects: Information literacy > Study and teaching; Information literacy > Case studies > Study and teaching
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Today's learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a compreh...

Table of Contents:

• Developing a metaliteracy framework to promote metacognitive learning
• Metaliteracy in the open age of social media
• Developing the metaliterate learner by integrating competencies and expanding learning objectives
• Global trends in emerging literacies
• Survey of the field : from theoretical frameworks to praxis
• The evolution of a dedicated information literacy course toward metaliteracy
• Exploring digital storytelling from a metaliteracy perspective.