Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

The Final Report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy states, "Information literate people know how to find, evaluate, and use information effectively to solve a particular problem or make a decision — whether the information they select comes from a computer, a book, a government agency, a film, or any number of other possible resources."
This seems easy enough to teach on the surface, but when you take into consideration what students do with the information they gather, many factors enter into the learning equation. Instead of wading through hundreds of potential hits, students need to learn:
how to focus their searching strategies and zero in on the information;
- how to recognize reliable resources and those that are not reliable;
- what plagiarism is and how to avoid doing it;
- how to paraphrase a selection;
- how to give credit to their resources.
This article will provide several resources for further study and also several ideas and resources that will help you in developing your teaching strategies for your students.