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Internet and the access it provides to vast amounts of information has raised concerns regarding the need for increased attention to digital literacies.

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Internet is "unproofed" information

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digital literacy is "the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers"

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have access to a vast expanse of digital information.

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fastest growing communications media in world history

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Information is expanding at an unprecedented rate

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digital divide

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ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information

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too much information

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Surely the challenge now is on acquiring and developing the necessary skills to effectively use the information

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World Wide Web pages at face value

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troubling

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students must learn to manage, retrieve and analyse information, think rationally and creatively, solve problems and communicate effectively.

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technological workplace

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We have created a complicated city of information with superhighways for very high speed travel, without training drivers... or teaching them how to use road maps

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Teachers are learners in this too and must master technology in order to assist their students.

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"We are a generation in transition. Generally reared in a print period, but increasingly required to function electronically. We are required to teach in a way that we have never been taught."[8]

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learned how to learn

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can learn from them

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prepared for lifelong learning

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1999.[

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2002

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Computers to a large extent have overtaken sport and other leisure pursuits

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They are mostly self taught and often find their way more by accident than design.

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almost 40 years ago

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individual help

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  • How to conduct a search for information
  • Defining a search and the need for information including prior knowledge
  • Initiating a search strategy after brainstorming ideas and defining key words
  • Locating a variety of resources including human, print, digital
  • Assessing and understanding information including reliability and currentness, key points and differentiating between fact and opinion
  • Synthesise, analyse and organise information
  • Communicate results

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    curriculum which incorporates Information skills and Digital Literacies across all Learning Areas

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    With of course, no continuation in secondary schools!

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    after years of ICT and IT, it is time to teach to their future, not our past!

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