Information literacy and online reading comprehension: two interconnected practices

  • Authors:
  • Crystle Martin;Constance Steinkuehler

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison;University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

  • Venue:
  • GLS'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Games + Learning + Society Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Information literacy is the practices involved in finding information to fulfill an information need. Online reading comprehension outlines what skills are involved in reading online, especially those that differ from reading in print. This paper outlines the interconnectedness of information literacy and online reading comprehension both showing the overlap of the concepts and the need for information literacy in order to reach online reading comprehension.