Information fluency & the 12 days of IL ...

Ian Jukes, a consultant from the US, is quoted in Australian newspaper The Age. "We need to teach information fluency, not just information literacy. Information fluency involves learning an unconscious process, allows information seekers to ask good questions, access a wide range of resources, analyse and authenticate data and turn it into knowledge, then apply that knowledge within the context of real-time, real-life experience." (Tarica, 2006). Hmmm, that sounds like information literacy, to me... Looking on his company's website (Infosavvy Group) it's interesting to see that he certainly used to plug information literacy.

Go to http://ianjukes.com/infosavvy/education/ejukesbio.html to see links to some of his papers and presentations, details of his books & consulting etc. They advertise
Jukes, I., Dosaj, A. and McDonald, B. (2000) net.savvy: Building Information Literacy in the Classroom. 2nd ed. Corwin Press. ISBN: 0-7619-7565-9.
This explains their "five-step process, the "5As of Information Literacy," ... learn to solve problems by asking, accessing, analyzing, applying and assessing information from sources like Internet sites, newsgroups, chat rooms, e-mail, and other electronic and non-electronic resources." (I think there's a sort of 12 days of Christmas thing one ought to be able to do e.g. "On the 7th day of Christmas my true love gave to me... SCONUL 7 Pillars of IL, Big 6 IL skills, 5As of IL, four ILPET (Information literacy planning extra teaching) booklets, 3 national frameworks, two UNESCO meetings, and a constructivist approach to pedagogeeeee.")

Reference: Tarica, E. (2006) "Schools failing dotcom kids" The Age. 3 July.

Photo by Sheila Webber: Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane, Australia, July 2006.