Information Literacy
Information skills
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Here, there and everywhere

Information skills are those needed to define the information task, locate sources and select data, process and present information and evaluate the task.
(Information Skills in the School: An Introduction, NSW Department of Education, 1989)

Specific skills concerned with understanding and using information include:

• Asking questions
• Selecting and evaluating information
• Combining information from different sources
• Presenting relevant information
• Selecting most relevant form of presentation
• Evaluating the presentation.

Information Skills include:

Print skills
The ability to locate and read, critically and analytically, any form of print in any format — from book to computer screen. 

Interpretive skills
The ability to analyse, collate, assess and interpret (in relation to information purpose) information in print, person, AV or electronic form.

Visual and aural skills
The ability to analyse and interpret information in visual and aural modes.

Expressive skills
The ability to communicate (orally or in writing) research results, findings, opinions: and to use technology as a communication device with confidence. 

Technological skills
The ability to use hardware and software, where appropriate, to retrieve, process and present information.

To give students the skills they need today and for lifelong learning. To make them discerning critical users of information. Students must be given the skills to analyse and synthesise information in any form.

Everyone, every day.