3.+Adult+Learners

= Developing Information Literacy and Technology Skills at the = = __Adult (Post Secondary) Level__ =


 * Below you will find some links to reading and resources relevant to information literacy for adults.**

__Readings:__
Gorard, Stephen, John Furlong, and Neil Selwyn. Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society. London: Routledge, 2006. Print. A fairly recent in-depth look at the technology and information literacy of adults in contemporary society. Trends, potential, impediments, and future recommendations are included. The link above is a temporary google preview copy, and includes the 1st third of the book. It's an interesting read, and the full text is available at the main MSU Library for check out.

Badke, William. [|Information Literacy Meets Adult Learners.doc] __Online (Weston, Conn.)__. 32.4 (July/August 2008): 48-50. A useful article looking at the struggles of adults in terms of advancing informational technology. The adults focused on in this article are midlife productive members of society who are motivated but lack the skills and knowledge to keep up with the ever changing web 2.0 world. Approaches and strategies for teaching these learners are discussed.

Kerka, Sandra.[|Extending Information Literacy in Electronic Environments.doc] __New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education__. 88 (Winter 2000): 27-38. This article is about the strategic use of learning technologies in adult education. It describes information literacy and how it is changing in our digital environment. It dicusses some trends and issues related to teaching informational technology to adults.

__**Websites:**__
National Forum on Online Literacy. This a collection of useful websites and articles on information literacy created at the University of Illinois. The site includes an informational literacy blog and an extensive resource page.

Research Roadmap. An excellent training web-based tutorial for people wanting to work on the their web research skills. Created by Humbolt State University. I tried the tutorial, and found it to be a resource that would be very helpful for inexperienced researchers, whether old or young adult. It addresses many issues found in web research- including search strategies, data bases, search criteria, citations, and even ethics in research.

Information Fluency A website created by a grant to the 21st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF), which later joined with the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to start online for profit courses in information technology The website linked here as numerous useful resources, including annotated links, tutorials, blogs and web research tools.