The Scottish Information Literacy Project:working with partners to create an information literate Scotland

Christine Irving, Project Officer

Restructuring the National Information Literacy Framework

(Scotland) 

Project Open Meeting 2009Glasgow Caledonian University 16th September 2009

What’s different

• Draft pdf further developed as a Weblog

Static pages (Home, Overview, Information Literacy, Use of Framework, Framework Levels, Exemplars, Assessments)

Ability to update information, add new information

Postings (current activities, developments, new exemplars / case studies etc.)

Interactive – comment on pages, postings

What does it look like

HOME

Appendix A:Examples of informationliteracy material

Appendix B: Existing skillsdefinitions, frameworks and models

used to inform the development of thedraft national framework

Appendix C: Restructure FrameworkLayout

Appendix D: University of AbertayDundee: Information Literacy

Framework

Appendix E: Loughborough UniversityLibrary Information Literacy: IL

competences

Appendicies

Back ground information andprovenance

OVERVIEW

Information Literacy and LifeLong learning

Information Literacy andEducation

INFORMATION LITERACY USE OF THE FRAMEWORK

CASE STUDIES - NHS ILCOMPETENCY FRAMEWORK;

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT: - SKILLSSTRATEGY CASE STUDY / LIS IL

STRATEGY & IL WORK

CILIP Information LiteracyDefinition

Lifelong learning including allinformation using communitities e.g.

community learning and in theworkplace

CASE STUDIES - UNIVERSITY OFABERTAY

SCONUL 7 PILLARS

Further Education & HigherEducation

Information Handling Skills

CILIP Information LiteracyDefinition

CASE STUDIES - COLLEGE (ILDIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT),

GOVAN HIGH SCHOOL (STAFFINDUCTION, FUTURE SKILLS), S1ENGLISH RESEARCH, SCIENCEDRAFT CfE OUTCOMES, HIGHER

HISTORY,

SCQF Levels 1 - 7

Secondary Schools & FurtherEducation

EXPLORE MODEL

CASE STUDIES - EXPLOREMODEL, NORTH AYRSHIRETOOLKIT, ABERDEENSHIRE

SCHOOLSKIT, TRANSITION WORK

Schools (P3 - P7)

FRAMEWORK LEVELS

SCHOOLS

SECONDARY SCHOOLS /FURTHER EDUCATION

FURTHER AND HIGHEREDUCATION

LIFELONG LEARNING

EXEMPLARS / CASE STUDIES ASSESSMENTS

National Information LiteracyFramework (Scotland)

http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/

It’s all happening …Scottish school librarians and their knowledge and

use of Curriculum for Excellence Survey

Real & Relevant – Information and Critical Literacy

Skills for the 21st Century Learner’ (P1,2,3)

Young Scot IL and S3/S4

SLIC / FE Working Standards party - Information

Literacy indicator

New SQA national qualifications

Contact details Christine IrvingResearcher / Project OfficerMilton Street BuildingMS005 (ground floor) Glasgow Caledonian UniversityCowcaddens RoadGlasgow, G4 0BATel: 0141-273 -1249

Email christine.irving@gcal.ac.uk

Project website www.caledonian.ac.uk/ils/Project blog http://caledonianblogs.net/information-

literacy/ Framework http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/