Teacher Education and Information Literacy

A Course Proposal

Abstract

Children of all ages can discover infinite numbers of facts by simply pressing buttons on a computer. With this total access there are no limits on the amount of misinformation, bias and untruth, which may also find their way into a student's knowledge base via the electronic media. How are children to learn the skill of discernment, the ability to discriminate the true from the untrue? The obvious answer to this question is, "The teacher should teach the student to use electronic media properly ." True, but who teaches the teacher? This paper attempts to provide an answer.