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=Welcome to the ACE Information Literacy Curriculum Design Project!=

The goal of this 2010-2011 Surrey School District Project is to create learning materials and activities which promote the A ctive, C ritical, and E thical Use of information.

We are a group of Teacher-Librarians and ICT educators, hoping to focus on creating material for students at the Grade 7-8 level.

Our work will reference the Performance Indicators for Students available through iste.nets.[|ISTE Nets]

Another reference piece will be the Performance Standards developed by our District ICT committee in the 2007 handbook: //Information and Media Literacy: Student Learning Capacity.//

Addtionally, we will reference the new BCTLA document, "The Points of Inquiry," whose authors remark:

// "Today's students learn in a dynamic world where information changes and expands as fast as technological innovation. // // Information that grows exponentially and comes in multiple formats is presented without prior expert editing for truth or reliability, often without logical organization.... Learning in the Information Age is very different from the kind of learning that took place prior to the advent of the computer." // "Points of Inquiry" can be downloaded from the BCTLA website: [|BCTLA Points of Inquiry]

Suggestively, the most recent issue of //Feliciter//, the professional journal of the Canadian Library Association, is all about emerging technologies in libraries. The guest editors note, "...emerging tech is as much about people as it is about the technology itself. It's about what technology enables people to find, do, learn, create, share and accomplish."