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ERIC Number: EJ337524
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Information Skills for an Information Age?
Gawith, Gwen
Unicorn, Journal of the Australian College of Education, v12 n2 p87-93 May 1986
Although information skills are the most basic of skills, the tendency is to teach strategies related to educational projects, erroneously assuming that these "information skills" are applicable to everyday decision-making. Educated imaginations are needed for today's variety of lifelong creative information situations. (17 references) (CJH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Needs, Lifelong Learning, Teaching Skills, User Satisfaction (Information)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Information Skills
Note: Single copies are available from: Business Manager, The Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia ($6.00 Australian).