Welcome to Information Literacy Education LBS707


Here, I will be discussing the weekly information learned from the classroom concerning the history and future of information literacy. As we know it, a lot of us had a bit of struggle in our first year levels at University. We struggled to understand what the Lectures were trying to teach us, never mind understanding the assignment content and all that, HORROR!! The reason for that might have been that our level of understanding was still developing or that we had a bit of challenge with our literacy levels. We come from different backgrounds, we went to different schools, our levels of understanding won't and will never be the same.
To save the day, following me as I discuss weekly trends on Information Literacy.



Comments

  1. OZZY10 August 2017 at 07:48

    Eish, I remember my first year. I was battling to to adapt to the environment. You are right in saying we all come from different context's and our levels of understanding will always vary. I shall look forward to your weekly blog, Happy Blogging.

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    1. Unknown14 August 2017 at 22:51

      worse of all, other things we learned at varsity only make sense now hey......

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  2. Shehaamah Mohamed11 August 2017 at 03:10

    Indeed...there are other skills besides reading and writing (academic literacy) that our students need to develop...we will look at these over the coming weeks.
    Good reflection.

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    1. Nonto14 August 2017 at 00:06

      Information literacy is a really interesting topic, it also is interesting how it is evolving. I look forward to reading your blogs.

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  3. Unknown14 August 2017 at 00:35

    You are so right Fikiswa, the transition from Secondary and Tertiary education is difficult in the first year, and we need to adapt to that first before even understanding what is being said. For each person it is different, that is why it is important to have the information literacy programmes in order to assist those who are in need.

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  4. Unknown14 August 2017 at 22:55

    I am more excited about the weekly activities that we will do in class, we shall make the most of them and put them in practice at our libraries........happy learning!!!

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