The key components of information literacy are accessing, evaluating and using information. These information literacy components are embedded into the Communication strand of the English content area of the Oregon Standards, as well as throughout most other content areas.
Information literacy is the glue that binds many contents areas together.
Provide Cost-Effective Access to Resources Individual school districts across the sate struggle to make room in their already strapped budgets to provide students and staff access to online information in their school libraries. Unfortunately, discrepancies in economic base, geographic location, and district size continue to cause an equity disparity across Oregon. Today s student lives and learns in a world that has been radically altered by the ready availability of vast stores of information in a variety of formats. Developing expertise in accessing, evaluating, and using information is in fact the authentic learning that modern education seeks to promote. In the second year of grant funding, the project was expanded to a total of 101 secondary sites and initiated a K-6 pilot with 10 schools in Oregon.