Literacy, Technology, and Humanity: A Matrix for Active Learning in the Technologies of Information

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

• Bob Whipple, Creighton University, NE

Copyright

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Location

Room 212

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

Information literacy requires not only that we effectively consume information, but understand the technologies which create and enable them. This presentation will detail a course cluster entitled “Literacy, Technology, and Humanity”, whose aim is critical information literacy through the examination of literacy technologies and their effect on the ways that humans attain literacy and process the information obtain, disperse, and process information.

Keywords

Information literacy, Critical thinking, Literacy technologies

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Whipple, Bob, "Literacy, Technology, and Humanity: A Matrix for Active Learning in the Technologies of Information" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 44.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/44