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ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM

A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present info...

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Main Authors:	Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar, Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah, Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
Format:	Citation Index Journal
Published:	International Refereed Research Journal 2011
Subjects:	T Technology (General) ZA4050 Electronic information resources L Education (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/1/ResearchersWorldRayKJ%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.researchersworlld..com http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/
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spelling	my.utp.eprints.73012017-01-19T08:23:02Z ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman T Technology (General) ZA4050 Electronic information resources L Education (General) A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present information effectively. They must become information literate workers, teachers, facilitators and coachers. Information literacy skills allow the problem solving, critical and creative thinking, decision making, and cooperative learning that prepare students for the challenges in society. Information literacy leads to skilful, responsible thinking that facilitates good judgement because it relies on criteria, is selfcorrecting and is sensitive to context. It helps growth of individuals through a number of methods, programmes and techniques. It would be useful if the educational incorporate these elements since the elementary stage so that by the time their reach the college and university level, they have acquired the reading and information skills much required in the current information and knowledge era. Keywords: Information skills, information literacy, knowledge, knowledge culture, curriculum, critical thinking and higher education International Refereed Research Journal 2011-01 Citation Index Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/1/ResearchersWorldRayKJ%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.researchersworlld..com Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar and Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah and Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman (2011) ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM. [Citation Index Journal] http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/
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topic	T Technology (General) ZA4050 Electronic information resources L Education (General)
spellingShingle	T Technology (General) ZA4050 Electronic information resources L Education (General) Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
description	A great responsibility facing education today is to develop students with information literacy while pursuing their education and extend it further in their workplace. In order for today's students to excel in the 21st century, they must be able to acquire, evaluate, and use and present information effectively. They must become information literate workers, teachers, facilitators and coachers. Information literacy skills allow the problem solving, critical and creative thinking, decision making, and cooperative learning that prepare students for the challenges in society. Information literacy leads to skilful, responsible thinking that facilitates good judgement because it relies on criteria, is selfcorrecting and is sensitive to context. It helps growth of individuals through a number of methods, programmes and techniques. It would be useful if the educational incorporate these elements since the elementary stage so that by the time their reach the college and university level, they have acquired the reading and information skills much required in the current information and knowledge era. Keywords: Information skills, information literacy, knowledge, knowledge culture, curriculum, critical thinking and higher education
format	Citation Index Journal
author	Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
author_facet	Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Raja Abdullah Jusoff, Kamaruzzaman
author_sort	Raja Yaacob, Raja Ahmad Iskandar
title	ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_short	ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_full	ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_fullStr	ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_full_unstemmed	ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH INFORMATION LITERACY AS PART OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM
title_sort	achieving excellence through information literacy as part of innovative curriculum
publisher	International Refereed Research Journal
publishDate	2011
url	http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/1/ResearchersWorldRayKJ%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf http://www.researchersworlld..com http://eprints.utp.edu.my/7301/
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