IL resources

My colleague Bill Johnston, at Strathclyde University is co-author of a research report which is part of a Learning and Teaching Scotland initiative. You can down load the report in full or chapter by chapter. It looks at the Scottish educational context, at different aspects of study skills and information literacy, and at similarities and differences between study skills and information literacy.

Johnston, B. and Anderson, T. (2005) Information literacy and study skills. Glasgow: Learning and Teaching Scotland. http://staging.ltscotland.org.uk/lts/external/ctad/
informationliteracy/additionalinfo/index.asp

This accompanies a website which contains learning objects developed for use in information literacy learning by CTAD consultancy.
http://staging.ltscotland.org.uk/lts/external/
ctad/informationliteracy/index.asp
You can use the resources online and they have notes for teachers and parents. I haven't had time to explore them, and inevitably my eye was caught by a misconception, namely in the "Asking people" learning object it states "librarians are there to help you find information in the library." sigh. However, that shouldn't blind one to the possible usefulness of the objects. They are divided up by age group (9-11, 12-14, 15-18)

There are also sets of objects for Study Skills at
http://staging.ltscotland.org.uk/lts/external/
ctad/studyskills/index.asp

Photo: Unseasonal cheery blossom last autumn. Currently unable to upload new photos as Blogger has yet another glitch, but I found this one that I'd uploaded but not published.