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Short Communication

Year: 2021 | Month: February | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 119-126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210220

Identifying the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Teachers

Ruuhina Binti Mohd Sani1, Arumugam Raman2

1School of Education and Modern Language, Universiti Utara Malaysia
2School of Education and Modern Language, Universiti Utara Malaysia

Corresponding Author: Ruuhina Binti Mohd Sani

ABSTRACT

In line with the ministry of education to enhance students’s higher order thinking skills; teachers should take advantage of ICT use in classroom. The main purpose of this conceptual paper is to discuss the elements of information literacy competence for teachers in Malaysia. The literature review on existing standard competency literacy will be basis of this discussion. The ministry want to ensure that basic ICT infrastructure are in place throughout the system and the main priority is that all teachers have basic competency in ICT. Based on proposed framework, it is presumed that there were three dimensions related to information literacy competence (knowledge, skills and attitude).

Keywords: ICT, Information literacy competence, ICT Competency Literacy Standards.

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