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Information literacy (60 min)
- Meet in groups of three. Identify a list of characteristics of an information literate learner. The resource may provide you with some ideas. (15 min)
- Share your list with the class group and add useful new ideas to your list. (10 min)
- Meet in pairs. Identify the main points of a plan of action to ensure that learners in your school are information literate. (15 min)
- Open your course workbook and update section 3-2-1. (20 min)
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Information literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the information needed for a particular purpose. Ultimately information literate people know how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how information is organised, how to find information and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them.
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Managing control and access (30 min)
- Work in groups of four (each from a different school). Share how each school manages access to the ICT facilities. Use these questions as a guide: (20 min)
- Who gains access during the day?
- How do they schedule the access?
- Who gains access after school hours?
- How is the use of the ICT facility monitored and supervised?
- Is access equitable?
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Is there a clear user policy?
- Work on your own. Open your course workbook at 3-2-2 and list the best ideas for managing access to ICT that you heard in your discussion.
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Ethical use of information (30 min)
- Listen to the trainer presentation on copyright and fair use. Ask questions to clarify your understanding.
- Take the short copyright quiz.
- Work in pairs. Identify and list ways in which
- a) you can make your teachers and learners aware of copyright
- b) you can prevent learners copying and pasting information (plagiarising)
- Update your course workbook at item 3-2-3.
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Acceptable use (30 min)
- Work in pairs. Read one Acceptable Use Policy each. (10 min)
- Discuss the Acceptable Use Policies, using the following questions as a guideline:
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- What is the purpose of an AUP?
- Is an AUP necessary in a school?
- Is an AUP just a set of rules?
- Can you improve on these AUPs?
- What is your plan of action regarding an AUP in your school ? Open your course workbook at item 3-2-4 and note your intentions. (10 min)
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Effective use (45 min)
- Work in groups of four. It is an important part of the budgetary cycle and ICT policy cycle to assess the use of ICT in your school. Start by discusssing what you would regard as effective use of ICT in your schools. (15 min)
- Construct a list of indicators of effective use of ICT. In other words, what would you need to see happening to know that ICT is being effectively used? (15 min)
- Open your course workbook at item 3-2-5 and record these indicators. (15 min)
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Community of principals
- Join the community of principals online. Participate in the principals' discussion list. Discuss these and other issues with principals nationwide.
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If you have not already joined Thutong and the principals' discussion list, go to http://www.thutong.org.za (online)
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