1. What’s the Deal With Information Literacy? And Why Should I Care? A Teacher’s Guide to Information Literacy

2. Check Yourself  Are you information literate?  Do you remember what it’s like to be information illiterate?  Do you give much thought to how current students learn to read and write in your field?

3. Components of Advanced Literacy in the Information Age  Reading  Writing  Thinking –Selection and evaluation –Construction and transformation of knowledge  Information seeking and information “management”

4. 3 Directions

5. Advices  Adjust your assumptions  Model desired practices  Pay attention to precursors, not just end product  Welcome students into discourse in a scholarly community