Critical workplace information literacy

Critical Literacy for Information Professionals

Critical literacy is an important and highly relevant concept to hospital and health sciences librarians: the theory reflects the value our profession gives to informed, contex-tual, critical readings of the research literature; the importance of context in evidence-based practice ; and the inclusion and consideration of the patient's and family's social or cultural needs, values, and preferenc...

Señor Google and Spanish Workplace Information Practices Information Literacy in a Multilingual World

What does the term “information literacy” mean to you? If you work within higher education, perhaps your eyes are glazing over as an image of a citation guide comes to mind. If you last entered a library when card catalogues were in existence, perhaps the question is bringing back longrepressed memories of the tedious hours you spent at the microfi lm machine. Either way, it is unlikely that yo...

Employer Perceptions of Critical Information Literacy Skills and Digital Badges

Victoria Raish is a PhD Student in the College of Education and Emily Rimland is Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations at The Pennsylvania State University; e-mail: [email protected], erimland@psu. edu. © 2016 Victoria Raish and Emily Rimland, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Digital badges are an educational innovation used to mea...

An Introduction to Workplace Literacy Programs

Using On-line Discussion to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in an Adult Workplace Literacy Program

This paper describes an instructional approach designed to teach adults in a workplace training program strategies for communicating in an electronic context. Students used an on-line discussion group to respond to cases that were relevant to their experiences of seeking and preparing for employment. A scaffolded teaching approach was used whereby students were taught to explain or express a vi...