National Information Literacy Framework Scotland

The Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced the publication of the strategic vision and key principles for assessment in Curriculum for Excellence  at the Scottish Learning Festival on 23 September 2009. According to the document: The main differences from the existing assessment arrangements are that: Assessment practices will follow and support the new curriculum.  This will promote [...]

The Scottish Information Literacy Project worked with Learning and Teaching Scotland and Project partners:            North Lanarkshire Council, Education Resource Service Information and Learning Resources, City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families Department North Ayrshire Education Resources Service to identify case Studies / exemplars of good practice within the cross curricular area of information literacy for [...]

Following a visit to Dundee College by Catherine Kearney, Sam Stirling, Learning Resources Manager at Dundee College contacted me about a Literacy Skills Project they are currently running for their Special Education Needs students at the College. It is an amazing project which arose out of “a library service review which identified that they had limlited resources that were [...]

Update on current IL activities in Aberdeenshire including IL strategy, linking library resources and IL activities to the CfE and setting Dewey to rap plus lots of other really interesting work.