Supporting Information Literacy Practices In Digital Information Environment: An Approach Using A Collaborative Digital Library For School Projects

摘要: Project-based teaching methods are increasingly used in Malaysian secondary school classrooms with the expectations that students will be engaged by chance to use different information sources creatively and especially benefit from of various presentation types improve learning. In project-based learning (PBL) exhibit literacy (IL) skills: they formulate authentic, meaningful questions; plan tasks; gather resources information; evaluate collaborate others; report findings. This paper examines affordances a collaborative digital library (CDL) can bring bear on supporting IL practices environment (DIGIE). The CDL supports solitary seeking, interaction among users as well working information. provides platform for participate e-publishing reports shared others. It also allows organize their project styles, cite references appropriate format submit other formats, order create materials publication library. places much responsibility managing workflow into hands students, teachers teacher librarians. Student responsibilities include application metadata, conventional skills such ascertaining resource provenance investigating intellectual property rights before depositing within Findings regarding students’ teachers’ reception encouraging.