Scottish Information Literacy Project

Since January I have been busy visiting primary schools and a nursery as part of the work I’m doing for Learning and Teaching Scotland CfE Literacy Team – Real and Relevant – Information and Critical Literacy Skills for the 21st Century Learner’ (Early and First Level).  
The visits have been amazing with lots of information and critical [...]

Aberdeenshire Library and Information Service started filming last week on their Libraries R 4 Learning Project: Multimedia clips. As one of those approached, I travelled north last week (2nd and 3rd February 2010) to do some filming. It was an interesting process writing the scripts for the introduction sections on Information Literacy, Information Literacy in schools and Information [...]

The latest issue of Library and Information Research is now available online
Issue 105 contains a number of invited contribution papers (from the projects partners so) is focused on current information literacy initiatives in Scotland especially in the schools sector. 
Libraries R 4 Learning: supporting the Curriculum for Excellence in Aberdeenshire - Sue Cromar
Collecting case studies / exemplars [...]

The project has been working with Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS):
North Lanarkshire Council, Education Resource Service
City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families Department, Information and Learning Resources,
North Ayrshire Education Resources Service 
 
to  identify exemplars of good practice / case studies within the cross curricular area of information literacy for dissemination through the LTS (Learning and Teaching Scotland) [...]