ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM

A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present info...

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Main Authors: Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar, Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah, Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
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Published: International Refereed Research Journal 2011
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spelling my.utp.eprints.73012017-01-19T08:23:02Z ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman T Technology (General) ZA4050 Electronic information resources L Education (General) A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present information effectively. They must become information literate workers, teachers, facilitators and coachers. Information literacy skills allow the problem solving, critical and creative thinking, decision making, and cooperative learning that prepare students for the challenges in society. Information literacy leads to skilful, responsible thinking that facilitates good judgement because it relies on criteria, is selfcorrecting and is sensitive to context. It helps growth of individuals through a number of methods, programmes and techniques. It would be useful if the educational incorporate these elements since the elementary stage so that by the time their reach the college and university level, they have acquired the reading and information skills much required in the current information and knowledge era. Keywords: Information skills, information literacy, knowledge, knowledge culture, curriculum, critical thinking and higher education International Refereed Research Journal 2011-01 Citation Index Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/1/ResearchersWorldRayKJ%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.researchersworlld..com Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar and Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah and Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman (2011) ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM. [Citation Index Journal] http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/
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topic T Technology (General)
ZA4050 Electronic information resources
L Education (General)
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ZA4050 Electronic information resources
L Education (General)
Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar
Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah
Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
description A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present information effectively. They must become information literate workers, teachers, facilitators and coachers. Information literacy skills allow the problem solving, critical and creative thinking, decision making, and cooperative learning that prepare students for the challenges in society. Information literacy leads to skilful, responsible thinking that facilitates good judgement because it relies on criteria, is selfcorrecting and is sensitive to context. It helps growth of individuals through a number of methods, programmes and techniques. It would be useful if the educational incorporate these elements since the elementary stage so that by the time their reach the college and university level, they have acquired the reading and information skills much required in the current information and knowledge era. Keywords: Information skills, information literacy, knowledge, knowledge culture, curriculum, critical thinking and higher education
format Citation Index Journal
author Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar
Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah
Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
author_facet Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar
Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah
Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
author_sort Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar
title ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_short ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_full ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_fullStr ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_full_unstemmed ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_sort achieving excellence through information literacy as part of innovative curriculum
publisher International Refereed Research Journal
publishDate 2011
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