Development of a Collaborative Program for Information Skills Teaching at Liceo "Conaro" in Padua

Abstract

The “Alvise Cornaro” High School in Padua has been implementing for the last ten years a method for teaching information skills, that has been developed to enhance students’ long life learning strategies as a research process. The method follows a student-centered model, and is focused on the information searching process and the active use of school library, in order to develop key competencies for active citizenship within compulsory education. The activity is included in the normal school curriculum and aims to provide every student with information skills strategies, including identifying, accessing, selecting, and evaluating relevant information in different sources and media.