A Profile of Digital Information Literacy Competencies of High School Students

摘要: Introduction Information Seeking styles have changed over the past few years with evolution of Internet and on-line resources. This has resulted in new learning methods information literacy strategies. paper evolved as part suite studies for project entitled Digital Curriculum Literacies (Freebody, Hedberg & Guo, 2003) conducted at Centre Research Pedagogy Practice, National Institute Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. will explore digital strategies cognitive processes these high school students. It also to some extent illustrate search patterns The curricular (DCL) focuses on key initiatives Singapore Ministry Education (MOE) use ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) learning. term refers integrated within various curriculum areas. is a three studies. general questions this research are: DCL I: How do teachers guide students their ICT-related work through classroom interactions? can that guidance be improved? II: engage tasks? III: construct craft assessable projects? linguistic/textual multimodal features those outcomes comes out II study, which looked students' online usage skills. When they worked Internet-based tasks how navigated searched information, what were used did integrate synthesize into an artifact? In related (Barab, Bowdish, Lawless, 1997), researchers multidimensional computer-based kiosk individuals could select type task undertaken thus making it difficult determine aspects navigational performance from influence choice tasks. present study sought overcome limitations by utilizing Web-based was directly linked being taught not constrained resources nor employed working Defining Literacy Doyle's (1994) succinctly defined ability access, evaluate, variety sources meaningful ways. However disagreed such simple all-encompassing characterization literacy. From early times its conceptualization, been recognized complex multi-faceted (Bawden, 2001). True calls upon combination rich skills knowledge (McClure, 1994; Taylor, 1986). Tuckett (1989) breaks down dimension hierarchy levels following ascending order complexity: * Simple Using single tool Compound Combining skills/tools Complex/integrated Making networks, evaluating repackaging current age, inevitably influenced extensively developments technology. Thus or emerged prominently. understand multiple formats wide networked computer involves skill deciphering multimedia images, sounds text (Gilster, 1997; Lanham, 1995). …