As a leading teacher-librarian, Barbara Braxton knows about information literacy. In this episode, we talk with Barbara about the information process, the concept of literacy in the 21st century, the art of developing”thick questions”, and how to create tasks that minimise the need to plagiarise in the first place. Barbara is well respected amongst the Australian online teaching community and she has some great insights into how we get kids to use information. Oh, and a couple of political viewpoints as well….

Links mentioned in the podcast…

• Evaluating Internet-based resources - An article by David Warlick
• Jimmy Wales on Ted Talks - The insiders story on Wikipedia
• Velcro crop under challenge - If it’s on the Internet it must be true, right?
• From Now On - Great resources from Jamie Mackenzie
• Questioning.org - More great Mackenzie stuff
• The Quizzard of Oz - Barbara’s pet quiz project

Thanks to Barbara for making the time to chat to me on one of her fleeting visits back to Canberra. As always, listeners’ comments are welcome below.

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