Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners

Thomas P. Mackey, Trudi E. Jacobson

American Library Association, Apr 8, 2014 - Language Arts & Disciplines

Today's learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory that builds on decades of practice while recognizing the knowledge required for an expansive and interactive information environment. The concept of metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills (determine, access, locate, understand, produce, and use information) to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments (collaborate, produce, and share) prevalent in today's world. Combining theory and case studies, the authors

• Show why media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy, and a host of other specific literacies are critical for informed citizens in the twenty-first century
• Offer a framework for engaging in today's information environments as active, selfreflective, and critical contributors to these collaborative spaces
• Connect metaliteracy to such topics as metadata, the Semantic Web, metacognition, open education, distance learning, and digital storytelling

This cutting-edge approach to information literacy will help your students grasp an understanding of the critical thinking and reflection required to engage in technology spaces as savvy producers, collaborators, and sharers.

Contents

• Developing a Metaliteracy Framework to Promote Metacognitive Learning: 1
• Metaliteracy in the Open Age of Social Media: 33
• Developing the Metaliterate Learner by Integrating Competencies and Expanding Learning Objectives: 65
• Global Trends in Emerging Literacies: 97
• Survey of the Field From Theoretical Frameworks to Praxis: 127
• The Evolution of a Dedicated Information Literacy Course toward Metaliteracy: 157
• Exploring Digital Storytelling from a Metaliteracy Perspective: 185
• About the Authors: 207
• Index: 209

About the author

Thomas P. Mackey is Professor in the Department of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State College. His professional interests emphasize metaliterate learning and the design of innovative social spaces to promote critical engagement with emerging technologies. His collaborative work with Trudi Jacobson to originate the metaliteracy framework promotes the reflective learner as producer and participant in dynamic information environments. They both lead the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative on the development of metaliteracy-related research, writing, teaching, grant projects, and the design of innovative learning spaces using competency-based digital badging and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Trudi E. Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian, is Head of the Information Literacy Department at the University Libraries, University at Albany. Her professional interests focus on team-based and other forms of active learning, learner motivation, digital badging, and, of course, metaliteracy, a concept Tom Mackey and she developed in response to inadequate conceptions of information literacy in a rapidly changing information environment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners
• Authors: Thomas P. Mackey, Trudi E. Jacobson
• Publisher: American Library Association, 2014
• ISBN: 1555709966, 9781555709969
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General