information fluency

Joan Lippincott, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, contributed a video interview to the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for A Rapidly Changing World. Here's her description of it:

"My daughter, Meg Lippincott, a sophomore at Vassar College, has been working at her college library reference desk and occasionally sharing some observations with me about how students seek information for their academic work.  I interviewed her for a brief video for the ELI Focus Session on net savvy students.  Her friend Jan Zhan, a student at University of Maryland, did the camera work.  Meg discusses some aspects of information literacy, the way she learned to use some math software, and her definition of a 'net savvy student.'"  --Joan Lippincott

In this 41-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Susan Curzon, Charles Dziuban, and Martha Marinara in a session entitled Information Fluency in the Digital Age. They share their attempts  to establish an information fluency culture at the University of Central Florida.

In this 21 min minute recording, we'll hear from Chuck Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on information fluency, the importance of libraries and more.

See also:

• How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
• An Interview with Roy Rosenzweig