Information Skills Framework

Do you see the need to promote an "Information Skills Framework" in your school? If so, how might you accomplish this?

I think the Information Skills Framework as listed in Achieving Information Literacy is something useful for a school to use as, well, a framework.  This framework could be used by all teachers at a school to ensure that all students are headed in the same direction in terms of information literacy.  The goal of all educators has to be the creation of lifelong learners - this is information literacy.  By promoting the framework, schools can work towards this goal.

To help my school promote an Information Skills Framework, I would need to initiate the idea at a staff meeting, providing supporting materials to teachers.  I would need to be the driving force for the framework, working with students and teachers in library periods and in classrooms to ensure that everyone was on the same page and working towards the same goal.

I know that many teachers would see this as yet another thing that they needed to worry about in addition to all the other teaching requirements put on them.  However, if this was put forth as being a framework on which to scaffold the research they are already doing with their classes, I think it could be manageable.

Additionally, I think the framework could be something that was looked at by the School Planning Council and added into the school goals - clearly creating lifelong learners is an ultimate goal!