Aligning Information Literacy Standards with South Carolina Content Standards
"From the community to schools to colleges and on to the workplace, people are expected to be able to access, use, understand, and apply information. The shared aim is to develop people who are ready to enter the workforce as competent, ethical, and productive users of information and technology." (Grassian, Esther S. and Joan R. Kaplowitz. Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. 2001.)
Social Studies Academic Standards and Information Literacy
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simple of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget (1896-1980)