Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges.

Sales, Dora; Martzoukou, Konstantina; Goldstein, Stéphane; Pavey, Sarah; Hirvonen, Noora; Saran, Murat; Şencan, İpek

Abstract

The aftermath of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic - and the dangerous infodemic that has emerged in parallel - has made the importance of fostering information literacy even more evident. Information literacy is fundamental in all ages to enable us to participate in contemporary society and is therefore specifically a key competence to be developed starting from early childhood (Baji, Bigdeli, Parsa and Haeusler, 2018; Batool and Webber, 2019; Chu, Tse and Chow, 2011; Gardner, Goldstein, Pavey and Secker, 2020). In some countries, for the primary education stage, the socio-educational need to promote information literacy has obtained an institutional response with the inclusion of information and digital competence in the school curriculum and in current legislation. But the reality is that there is no sound educational approach, no updated and transferable curricular design, no substantial support for the school library, and the results of both the PISA Programme (2018) and recent academic research (Martínez-Piñeiro, Gewerc and Rodríguez-Groba, 2019) regarding information literacy of primary school students show huge gaps that urgently need to be addressed. The aim of this panel is to describe the preliminary results of the research carried out within the European BRIDGE project ("Information and Digital Literacy at School: A Bridge to Support Critical Thinking and Equality Values for Primary Education Using Children's Literature and Transmedia"). In the panel, the main results obtained in the six countries of the project will be presented to identify and reflect the needs and challenges shared and those that are specific to each country.

Citation

SALES, D., MARTZOUKOU, K., GOLDSTEIN, S., PAVEY, S., HIRVONEN, N., SARAN, M. and ŞENCAN, İ. 2023. Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. Panel presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

• Presentation Conference Type: Lecture
• Conference Name: 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023)
• Conference Location: Krakow, Poland
• Start Date: Oct 9, 2023
• End Date: Oct 12, 2023
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 31, 2023
• Keywords: Information literacy; Primary education; Children and social media; Children and information; Children and misinformation
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2120974
• Additional Information: The attached file contains both the extended abstract and the slides for this session. The extended abstract is also available from the conference website: https://www.conftool.com/ecil2023/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=252&presentations=show