Information Literacy

Abstract

First year undergraduates starting at University were born in or around 1994 – grown up with technology.

Over 400 million Google searches per day (Comscore 2011) and 72 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute (Youtube 2011).

Web 2.0 – Consumption and creation for everyone.

Vastly different from the way language and literacy was shared in the past.

Printing houses and publishers traditionally have controlled what could be officially published (Gee & Hayes 2011 p.3).

An exciting time without precedent, with a glut of information available at will, created and edited by everybody.

Creates challenges for educators.