Building an Information Literacy Program for High School Students of Greece in Close Cooperation with a Local Special Library

During the academic year 2007-2008, a hybrid online course was piloted at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan. The course was created in response to a newly mandated Michigan Department of Education online learning graduation requirement. Blackboard Learning Management System was utilized for instruction. The curricular focus was information literacy. Students included 11th and 12th graders who also gained real world library work experience. In the new online learning environment, library media specialists are creating an infrastructure to support the dynamic and evolving ways that students and teachers use information resources.

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The Impacts of a Climate Change SSI-STEAM Program on Junior High School Students’ Climate Literacy

Asia-Pacific Science Education ◽

10.1163/23641177-bja10019 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-38

Author(s):

Su-Yeon Choi ◽

A-Rang Won ◽

Hye-Eun Chu ◽

Hyun-Jung Cha ◽

Hyeonjeong Shin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Junior High School ◽

Junior High ◽

Junior High School Students ◽

Literacy Program ◽

School Students ◽

Climate Change Education ◽

Climate Literacy

Abstract This study aims to investigate climate literacy among junior high school students participating in an SSI-STEAM climate change education program and to examine the impacts of the program on the cultivation of climate literacy. Thirty-one eighth-grade students in Seoul, Korea, participated in this study. Data were collected using pre- and post-program surveys with a climate literacy questionnaire (CLQ), students’ background survey questions, interviews with participants, and from the artifacts produced by students during the program. Participants’ climate literacy was shown to improve substantially after attending the program, especially in the domains of perception and action. The four characteristics of climate literacy change were identified in the participants’ responses: more concrete ideas, extension of the scope of thinking, positive responsibility, and relevance recognition. The climate literacy program developed showed potential for fostering young people’s climate literacy along with their understanding of responsible national and global citizenship. The study discusses the implications of these findings and includes suggestions for future climate literacy program development and for both curricular and extra-curricular climate change education that can together nurture students’ more profound understanding of climate change.

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Financial literacy programs and youth entrepreneurial attitudes: some insights from the Jordanian community

Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy ◽

10.1108/jec-07-2020-0128 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (5) ◽

pp. 787-810

Author(s):

Nour Walid Aljaouni ◽

Baker Alserhan ◽

Kimberly Gleason ◽

Jusuf Zeqiri

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Financial Literacy ◽

Literacy Program ◽

School Students ◽

Content Type ◽

Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽

Students Attitudes ◽

K 12 ◽

The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a financial literacy program (FLP) recently implemented in Jordanian junior high and high schools as part of a national financial literacy agenda on students’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship relative to a control sample of students who had not yet participated in the FLP. This paper also examines the role of moderating variables, including students’ perception of teachers’ attitudes (TA) on students’ entrepreneurial attitudes. Design/methodology/approach Survey methodology was used to obtain data and hierarchical regression analysis was used to test hypotheses. Findings Results indicate that students who completed the FLP exhibited significantly higher entrepreneurial awareness than those that had not yet participated in the program. Students who took the entrepreneurship module of the FLP exhibited significantly lower entrepreneurial intention than those that had not yet taken the entrepreneurship module. However, TA did not impact students’ attitudes. Research limitations/implications The study examines a sample of middle and high school students in only one district in Amman, Jordan, and cannot be generalized to other communities where the FLP has been implemented. Practical implications The findings provide valuable insights for educators, policymakers and non-governmental organizations considering large scale, publicly funded FLPs as part of the K-12 educational system. Social implications Stakeholders should consider reforms to the implementation of entrepreneurship education as part of the FLP in Jordanian schools and other developing country K-12 programs. Originality/value This study is the first to examine the new Jordanian literacy program and the impact it has on attitudes toward entrepreneurship of middle and high school students.

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Information literacy of high school students in Kenya : the impact of teacher training

10.5353/th_b5094863 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher David Spielmann

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Information Literacy ◽

School Students ◽

The Impact

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How high-school students find and evaluate scientific information: A basis for information literacy skills development

Library & Information Science Research ◽

10.1016/j.lisr.2008.10.008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 12-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 107

Author(s):

Heidi Julien ◽

Susan Barker

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Skills Development ◽

School Students ◽

Information Literacy Skills

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The Impact of Knowledge of the Issue of Identification and Authentication on the Information Security of Adolescents in the Virtual Space

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL ◽

10.37394/23203.2021.16.49 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 527-533

Author(s):

Ljerka Luić ◽

Draženka Švelec-Juričić ◽

Petar Mišević

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Information Security ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Digital Literacy ◽

The State ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Children And Youth ◽

The Internet ◽

School Students

Information security in the context of digital literacy is a digital skill that enables safe and purposeful movement through virtual space. Due to rapid and unstoppable technological progress, multiplying opportunities and pushing the boundaries of digital technology and the Internet, the interest of the state and institutions within the state is to raise digital competencies of citizens, with special emphasis on children and youth as the most vulnerable groups of Internet users. The age limit and frequency of use of the Internet by young generations has been moved back a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the concern for information security of young people is increasingly emphasized. If, and to what extent, knowledge of the issue of identification and authentication affects the information security of high school students aged 16 to 19 in the virtual space, the research question addressed by the authors of this paper was to determine which student behaviors pose a potential danger compromising their information security by establishing a correlation between the variables that determine student behavior and the variables used to examine their level of security in a virtual environment. The research was conducted using a questionnaire on a sample of high school students in the Republic of Croatia, the results of which showed that some students practice behaviors that are potentially dangerous, make them vulnerable and easy targets of cyber predators and attackers, which is why there is cause for concern and a need for a additional education of children of primary and secondary school age in the field of information security in the form of the introduction of the subject Digital Literacy. Based on the results, a model for assessing the level of digital literacy of adolescents that affect information literacy can be designed, but also further related research in the field of information literacy of children and youth can be conducted.

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PEMBERDAYAAN LITERASI MEDIA DAN INFORMASI (LMI) UNESCO SEBAGAI SARANA PENCEGAHAN PENYEBARAN HOAKS

Jurnal Litbang Provinsi Jawa Tengah ◽

10.36762/litbangjateng.v16i1.747 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 59-66

Author(s):

Shary Charlotte Henriette ◽

Reni Windiani

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

International Relations ◽

United Nations ◽

Community Service ◽

Information Literacy ◽

School Students ◽

United Nations Educational ◽

Cultural Organization ◽

Ex Post

This article is part of community service of International Relations Department, Universitas Diponegoro to six targetted high schools in Semarang. Elevated access ofinformation through social medias among high school adolescents makes them vulnerable to “information disorder”. Therefore, counseling for Media and Information Literacy (LMI) is highly necessary. The LMI mechanism issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is used to educate high school students for better information literacy in democracy. The counseling materials included (1) Understanding Hoaks as a deviation of information:Mis-information; Dis-information;and Mal-information, (2) Fighting Disinformation and Misinformation through LMI, and (3) Ex-Post Facts to Check.

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