Developing information literacy skills in elementary students using the web-based Inquiry Strategies for the Information Society of the Twenty-First Century (ISIS-21)

Wade, Anne; Lysenko, Larysa; Abrami, Philip C.

doi:10.11645/14.2.2754

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“…Apart from knowing the sources and being able to access information from there, people living with DM in Ghana can identify relevant individuals and groups to engage in their information access, use and sharing and they use these individuals very effectively to support their information seeking for self-management support. The identification of these sources of information is consistent with the sources identified by other diabetic patients discussed in the literature (Alagu and Thanuskodi, 2018; Khosravi et al , 2018; Jamal et al , 2015; Wade et al , 2020). The main rationale for individuals living with the condition to involve specific people in their experience is trust.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Some of the information skills identified include awareness of library sources and services, both print and electronic documents, knowledge about information resources, including the internet, familiarity and use of ICT and online databases (Alagu and Thanuskodi, 2018). Also, Wade et al (2020) using a two-phased research design applied a Web-based inquiry strategies for the Information Society of the Twenty-First Century (ISIS-21) model to explore the information skills of 150 students in English schools in central Canada. They were able to establish that the ISIS-21 model promotes information skills in late elementary students (Wade et al , 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, Wade et al (2020) using a two-phased research design applied a Web-based inquiry strategies for the Information Society of the Twenty-First Century (ISIS-21) model to explore the information skills of 150 students in English schools in central Canada. They were able to establish that the ISIS-21 model promotes information skills in late elementary students (Wade et al , 2020). Although this study is not about students, it follows similar approaches to also apply a framework – the Information Culture Framework – to understand the various information culture patterns that influence the behaviour of people living with DM in Ghana around the information they use.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding the information culture for self-management support of people living with diabetes in Ghana

Boamah

Druye

2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the information culture of people living with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and how that impacts their self-management practices in Ghana. The study focuses on the information experiences and information cultural patterns and creates awareness of the need for people to be aware of effective information management for sustainable self-management support. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive qualitative approach was used. A total of 12 interviewees involving 10 diabetes patients and 2 health professionals provided data for the study. Allowing the participants to freely talk about their attitude and behaviour, defining their experiences around information for their self-management was the best approach to achieve an in-depth understanding this study seeks. Findings The specific elements defining the information of people living with DM in Ghana can be identified. People living with the condition are willing to share information about their condition not only with those within their diabetic community but also with anyone interested. They prefer to use information from sources they find reliable and trust, and they have good information-related competencies that are consistent with diabetic patients in other countries’ contexts to help them identify, access, use and share relevant information. Only a few of the interviewees have difficulty in evaluating the accuracy and currency of some of the information. But they receive a lot of support from experienced people from their community. People also prefer to have information about the condition in their ethnic language. It is important for people living with the condition in Ghana to get involved in the diabetic groups, clubs and community, as members appear to receive the most benefit and support from the community to self-manage the condition alone. Research limitations/implications The study is limited by the number of participants and the distances between the researchers and the research context. Also, even though two groups of participants were interviewed (diabetic patients and health professionals), the analysis did not separate the responses of the different groups of study participants. This paper provides a useful insight and understanding of the culture of people living with diabetes in Ghana in terms of how they access, use and share the information they need to support their self-management. It will create awareness of the importance of being mindful of information culture patterns in people in other groups in Ghana and beyond. The research processes and procedures described in the paper can be replicated by other researchers in other contexts. Originality/value Although there have been a lot of studies about diabetes and people living with the condition in Ghana, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study looking at how people define their need for information, how they identify the source of the information and how they access and use the information, including their general behavioural patterns that influence these information experiences.

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confidence: 85%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the information culture for self-management support of people living with diabetes in Ghana

Boamah

Druye

2022

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“…They cannot imagine their lives without gadgets and the Internet being sometimes more literate in modern technologies than their instructors. That is why educators and teachers constantly offer a number of strategies, software, and applications to improve IL for people of all ages beginning from children to adults (Canuel, Chrichton, 2020;Lin, Chang, 2020;Wade et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Information Literacy in Learning Academic Writing

2023

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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Nowadays information literacy is an indispensable competence as information is ubiquitous and overwhelming. This competence is required in all spheres and should be constantly improved. The article aims to pinpoint the opportunities of integrating information literacy into academic writing as the latter is one of the fundamental skills that students acquire and develop throughout most of the university courses. To achieve the goal the authors reviewed various interpretations of the term "information literacy" stated by different researchers, designed and realised assignments aimed at integrating information literacy and academic writing, carried out a preliminary analysis of the results obtained, and formulated perspectives for further research. The results proved that academic writing can not be taught without information literacy and their integration leads to a synergetic effect on the instruction. Information literacy is an integral part of bachelor, master, and PhD courses. It can be implemented in all educational forms, namely, individual, pair, group, and class activities. One of the fruitful prospects for further research is designing courses and programmes for teachers to involve them in more active information literacy integration into the educational process.

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“…Research studies on critical literacy pedagogy and practice in Canadian classrooms had similar aims to those conducted internationally. The purposes of different studies were to raise students' awareness on societal and global issues and assist them in developing competencies in multiple literacies using multimodal texts (see Arshad-Ayaz et al, 2017;Begoray & Brown, 2018;Lamoureux, 2020;Trigiani, 2015;Wade et al, 2020). Relatedly, students analysed texts and explored ways to challenge socially constructed norms and engage in equitable practices.…”

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Critical Literacy in Canada: A Systematic Review of Curricula and Literature

Kaya¹,

Dressler²,

Lenters³

2022

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Critical literacy is a pedagogy that serves to mediate social justice issues and educate for transformative social action. We present a systematic review of how critical literacy has been incorporated in Canada’s provincial/territorial curriculum documents since the late 1990s and integrated in K-12 classrooms in the last decade. Our analysis shows that critical literacy has been addressed with varying degrees of explicitness in curricula, and there is an imbalance of studies on critical literacies among provinces and territories. We discuss implications and encourage stakeholders in education to explicitly embed critical literacy into curricula and promote critical literacy practices in the classroom.

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Developing information literacy skills in elementary students using the web-based Inquiry Strategies for the Information Society of the Twenty-First Century (ISIS-21)

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding the information culture for self-management support of people living with diabetes in Ghana

Understanding the information culture for self-management support of people living with diabetes in Ghana

Information Literacy in Learning Academic Writing

Critical Literacy in Canada: A Systematic Review of Curricula and Literature

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