Scottish Information Literacy Project

Just finished reading  A Vision for Scotland  report and identified a few items that tied in with the projects thinking and with the current project Real and Relevant – Information and Critical Literacy Skills for the 21st Century plus the work of our partners:

‘it is necessary to start literacy programmes from a very early age’ (p13)
‘good CPD is [...]

Thanks to Carol Stewart for highlighting an article in TESS -  Zero tolerance on illiteracy  which is about about a new report  - A Vision for Scotland
The new report lays out recommendations on how to become ‘world’s first fully-literate nation’
Scotland can become the world’s first fully-literate nation by declaring zero tolerance on illiteracy according to a “visionary” plan [...]

The Scottish Information Literacy Project has been awarded funding by Learning and Teaching Scotland to work with Learning and Teaching Scotland in an area which is a key area for both Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Information Literacy Project. One of the Project’s ‘products’ is the first draft  of the National Information Literacy [...]

 
We have both had our heads down for a while with backroom matters hence the lack of postings but we were out and about last week.
On Tuesday 10th March we attended the National Literacy Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. We had been invited by the Literacy Team of the Curriculum for [...]

Included in the the sesions I attended was the keynote speech by Fiona Hyslop MSP Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning in which she outlined the central role of learning in supporting the Scottish Government’s strategic objectives. Of particular interest was that of a mention of Information Literacy skills and Dundee Librarians creating a [...]