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Third Reflection

1. Take some time to think about your topic. Now write down what you know about it.

According to me, engaging students in a curriculum with lots of innovative resources and learning activities which promotes web based education is the present view of Information Literacy. This indicates the importance of resource based learning where the user needs, collaborative efforts and choice of relevant information literate materials. In order to facilitate learning inquiry in a productive way, the educator should be a sharp researcher and guide where they can direct them to find out the possible ways of their related inquiry and ethical use of technology and web tools. Thus, a constructivist approach is encouraged to engage students in co-operative learning context and prepare  them for being active contributors of future by enriching social skills in addition to the deep understanding of the content. In addition, I also noticed that the students in the global multimediated context should  develop a critical thinking by reflecting their own ways of learning as in GeST model, Lupton and Bruce (2010,p.5) describes,"To experience literacy as ‘critical reflection’, one would need to reflect upon the experience of applying skills and knowledge, and upon the personal, professional and social implications of applying skills and knowledge."

   2. How interested are you in this topic?  Circle the answer that best matches your interest.  

  

Not at all           Not much         Quite a bit       A lot  

The interest tempts me to find out more activities and resources for the students to develop their abilities and skills especially in using web tools.

3. How much do you know about this topic?   Circle the answer that best matches how much you know.

Nothing          Not much                          Quite a bit                         A lot

I know that as Information Literacy  and technology are inter-related,the ways of learning methods are changing everytime. So the role of educators is to introduce the students to the new technologies  and tools to mould students as lifelong learners by enhancing active involvement in information Literacy.Information Literacy  activities are modified "to prepare teachers and students for participation in lifeworlds that are increasingly multimediated and globalised" (Kapitzke ,2003,p.6).

4. When you find out information about a topic, what do you generally find easy to do? Please list as many things as you like.

·         I find it easy to use various web tools such as link to make my information learning process easier.

·         My search results are limited by using Boolean operators such as AND which help me to concentrate on relevant information quicker. 

5.  When you find out information about a topic, what do you generally find hard to do? Please list as many things as you like.

• I find it hard to organise information in a sequence which made it difficult to synthesise  and co-relate selected information to present into a complete formatted Project.
• It was also complicated to control the flow of information after the reading the course materials and researched materials. As a result, it was hard to limit ideas into paragraphs.

6. What did you learn in doing this project? Please list as many things as you like.

This Project was an inspiring force for dealing with the research tools and developing a deep understanding of the scope of information inquiry through Information Literacy activities.

·        It made me to think about various quick ways of finding relevant information and critically evaluate the information to check the reliability and accessibility.

·        It guided me to walk through the steps of Information Search Process where I could reflect by comparing student responses on learning activities and identify my own strengths and weaknesses.  

·        It provided a basic idea of creating a blog, embedding video and images.

·        It enabled to improve my search skills and technical skills.

·        The readings and other course materials widen my professional qualities by strngthening my vocabulary and  by picking up ideas  from vast source of information on the Topic. It also  intensified my potential to form a strong information literacy perceptions.

Lupton, Mandy and Bruce, Christine. (2010). Chapter 1 : Windows on Information Literacy Worlds : Generic, Situated and Transformative Perspectives in Lloyd, Annemaree and Talja, Sanna, Practising information literacy : bringing theories of learning, practice and information literacy together, Wagga Wagga: Centre for Information Studies, pp.3-27.

Kapitzke, Cushla. (2003). Information literacy: a review and poststructural critique Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26 (1), 53-66.