Academic librarians methods of designing and providing library instruction have changed a great deal in the last 10 years due to wired classrooms and networked student workstations. Article focuses on Kolb s theory of experiential learning and its implications in the electronic classroom. Media specialists in a elementary school district created an information-literacy curriculum. Minnesota passed standards requiring students to be information and computer literate in order to graduate. Kamhi-Stein, L. and Stein, A. Teaching Information Competency as a Third Language.
Many librarians teach students for whom English is a second language.
A model for teaching these students is presented together with the principles underlying the model, its implementation, and its application to broader contexts. They find that the challenges posed by teaching library concepts and practices to ESL students shed light throughout the whole continuum of library instruction. Close collaboration between librarian and teacher is emphasized. In-depth research article about information literacy in science and engineering undergraduates at a Canadian University. The research tool used was a survey investigating faculty perceptions of their students information literacy skill vs. their own pedagogical practices related to such skills.