24 E-Literacy and Literacies

Dr Arvind K Sharma

  1. WebLinks
  • www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_S tandards_2007.
  • www.ala.org/ala/acrl- standards/informationliteracycompetency.htm.
  • http://www.iteea.org/TAA/Publications/TAA_Publications.html.
  • International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). What is ‘visual Literacy’?, International Visual Literacy Association, 2006. >www.ivla.org/org_what_vis_lit.htm. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=elea&vol=1&issue=1&year=2004&article=2_Kellner_ ELEA_1_1_web ( accessed on 20.04.2014).
  • www.ldonline.org/glossary#M
  • http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_c.aspx<(accessed on 30.05.2014).
  • http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/global_co/working_group/WGEFA4_UIS.ppt#268,15,Proposed definition
  • www.ictliteracy.info/rf.pdf/PISA%20framework.ppt.< (accessed on 30.05.2014).

 

Glossary

 

Interesting Facts

The term ‘multiliteracies’ is coined by The New London Group (1996). “The New London Group is a group of ten academics who met at New London, New Hampshire, in the United States in September 1994, to develop a new literacy pedagogy that would serve concerns facing educators as the existing literacy pedagogy did not meet the learning needs of students.” > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiliteracy<

A tabular view of development of learning, literacy and libraries

The above tabular information provides the overall scenario of libraries and related thoughts in the different ages.

  1. Points to ponder
  • Literacies increase the capacity of people to understand the complex phenomenon and people equipped with e-literacy can analyse things more efficiently and take decisions as per their competency.
  • Literacy can be associated with the following:
  • Ability to read and write.
  • Ability to understand the various phenomenon.
  • Participation in the academic activities.
  • An outcome of learning.
  • To convert users into e-literate users is a big challenge before LIS professionals and academicians, especially in the country like India where language and culture get changed after some distances.
  • E-literacy and Information Literacy should be the part of curriculum of LIS education.
  • A large number of students come from rural and poor background, so e-literacy skills should be imparted keeping in mind the economic, social, educational and cultural background of these students.
  • American Association of School Librarians (AASL) “Standard for the 21st- Century Learner” points out that “multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century.”