This is a course about concepts. This is often misunderstood. Students tend to think that information literacy is only about learning to use various tools, like CD-ROMs and the Internet. The fact is that these information tools are changing constantly.© Copyright 2000 State University of New York & Ulster County Community CollegeTo learn how to use a specific tool that is bound to change (quickly) is obviously not as useful as learning the concepts that are fundamental to such aspects of information literacy as:
- how to ask a research question
- how information is structured and accessed
- how to develop a successful search strategy
- how to evaluate the quality of information
- how to be informed consumers of information
- how to begin thinking about the educational, economic, social and political implications of life in the Information Age.
