A National Information Literacy Framework for Scotland

God knows we've been banging on about information skills / information literacy for, well, as long as I've been in the profession. So the (draft) national framework for Scotland published last month is to be welcomed. As its been developed with the SCQF its terms of reference & language are such that our teaching chums should recognise.

The development of a national overarching framework of information literacy skills and competencies which all sectors of education can recognise and develop or which can be applied to the world of work, equipping learners with skills needed for the 21 st century is seen as a key tool for the embedding of information literacy in schools, FE, HE, and lifelong learning and for life.

You can't really argue with that. Unless you're a teaching chum. Who thinks that "Athens is crap". Which is like saying that my bank card is crap because it doesn't allow me to access enough money. (Not a killer metaphor, I'm afraid).

Looks like we've still got some work to do. On the people who educate the aforesaid learners.

Venceremos!

The draft National Information Literacy Framework for Scotland can be downloaded here.