Abstract
The 21st century is an era of knowledge and information. Modern science and technology based on information technology has inspired profound changes in the world, including college education. Information literacy is an intrinsic element that often plays an important role in teaching and school management. In the information age, how to improve college teachers’ information literacy has become a major issue in the development of college education. This paper focuses on the study of college English teachers’ information literacy. It first studies the basic connotation of information literacy of college teachers which covers information awareness, information knowledge, and information ability. Then this paper takes college English teachers in North China Electric Power University as the research object, and adopts questionnaire survey and literature research to analyze the current situation of the information literacy of college English teachers. Based on the analysis of the basic connotation of teachers’ information literacy, and the current situation of college English teachers’ information literacy, this paper puts forward three strategies for improving college English teachers’ information literacy: enhancing college English teachers’ self-development consciousness, making use of group dynamics, and perfecting modern information technology training system.
Highlights
The 21st century is an era of knowledge and information
From the perspectives of college English teachers’ information literacy, this paper makes a series of questionnaires
Survey results show that teachers have strong information awareness and information needs, they do not have a clear understanding of the connotation of information literacy, and their requirements for the level of information literacy are low, and their ability to obtain and use information needs to be improved
Summary
The 21st century is an era of knowledge and information. Modern science and technology based on information technology has inspired profound changes in the world, including college education. College English teachers should keep pace with the times, keep up with the development of new technology, continuously improve their awareness, knowledge and ability of using information technology, and integrate and reasonably apply information technology to the specific classroom teaching design and ies.ccsenet.org. Zurkowski (1974), the president of the American Information Industry Association put forward the term “Information Literacy”: Techniques and skills for solving problems by using a large number of information tools and sources He created a new way of understanding the concept of information literacy and the requirements of the emerging information age. Based on the above concepts, combined with the particularity of college English teaching, the information literacy of college English teachers can be shown as information awareness, information knowledge, and information ability. As the receiver and transmitter of information, teachers’ information ability is directly related to the effect of college English teaching (Li, 2019)
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