Required Skills for an Information Age 💁

Information Literacy ℹ

The final and most compelling reason for integrating technology into teaching and learning

Students needs to be equipped with the skills to learn to know by gathering information

Since the emergence of the internet, many processes involved in locating and communicating; information now involve some form of technology

Visual Literacy 👀

Technology Literacy 🖥

Soloman (1995)

"Technology for students is about economic competitiveness".

National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education

International Society for Technology in Education

Collaborated to develop educational technology for pre-service programs

Developed the National Educational Technology (NET) for K-12 students

Several states (e.g. North Carolina) are also establishing their ow required
technology skills for K-12 students.

This trend makes it essential that teacher both model and teach the use of technology-based
methods to their students

Johnson and Eisenberg (1996)

introduced the "Big Six"

task definition

location and access

information-seeking strategies

use of information

synthesis

evaluation

they are so important that they should receive special emphasis (Truett, 1996;
Roblyer, 1998).

subset of technology literacy

Christopherson (1997 & Roblver
(1998)

Roblyer (1998)

reports on research that correlates visual literacy skills to higher score on
intelligence tests and to later success in more technical vocational areas

These reports create a powerful reason for teachers to integrate technology at early level into
students' communication methods.

They must utilize well-planned images when preparing instructional materials to capture the real
essence of what they like to convey to the learners.

emphasized the need for improved visual literacy skills so many people are heavily using
images on visual communications.