VI. Information Literacy Skills

How can students demonstrate information literacy?

Finding, interpreting, judging, and creating information

  • Collect, record, and verify data
  • Access information to be informed and inform others
  • Make connections between various sources of information
  • Understand the benefits and limitations of personal sensory learning preferences when accessing, processing, and recalling information
  • Use memory techniques to develop long-term memory
  • Present information in a variety of formats and platforms
  • Collect and analyze data identify solutions and make informed decisions
  • Process data and report results
  • Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks
  • Understand and use technology systems
  • Use critical literacy skills to analyze and interpret media communications
  • Understand and implement intellectual property rights
  • Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions
  • Identify primary and secondary sources

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