The term "ocean literacy" originated in the early 2000s from American ocean science researchers and educators to strengthen ocean science education in the national curriculum. Worldwide, it has been adapted to reflect a more multidisciplinary approach to understanding humans' relationships with the ocean. Research from the Understanding…

Increasingly librarians are interested in how the community of practice (CoP) framework can provide a more complete picture of how information literacy practices are influenced by situated and social learning. Doctoral students are socialized into the practices of the academy and gradually take on the identity and work of a scholar in their field.…

Psychological literacy is a concept in psychology learning and teaching in Higher Education (HE) that considers how psychology students can intentionally apply psychological knowledge to personal, professional and societal goals. However, despite its prevalence among psychology Higher Education scholars and developers, it is unclear whether…

This article discusses a study on preservice education students and the implementation of digital identities through self-constructed websites in a technology course. Researchers investigated the process of helping educators create a create a domain of their own while they consider the role of technology and digital identities in their future…

Due to the advent of technologies and mediascapes, young adults in the Arab region are engaging in new multiliteracies and making meaning through remixing multimodal modes of representations. One such practice is cosplaying. This study explores three Arab cosplayers' designing experiences as an embodied text. The participants' experiences are…

A confluence of circumstances in US public life, including the proliferation of digital media outlets, the diminished role of information gatekeepers, and entrenched ideological polarization, have made one of the core competencies of political engagement -- staying informed about current events -- an increasingly fraught endeavor. Fears about…

This research aims to examine the relationship between the critical thinking dispositions of preservice teachers and their decoding skills in information and communication technologies (decoding skills-ICT). As a research method, survey and correlational research models from quantitative research approaches were used. Research universe is a…

Finding Common Ground (FCG) is an interreligious dialogue program hosted in the Multi Faith Facility of Swinburne University of Technology. This article evaluates the interreligious learning elements as one aspect of the program's social inclusion and intercultural literacy objectives. The grassroots dialogue principles that FCG follows are ground…

With increasing social media attacks on scholarship and individual academics, educators must be prepared to talk to their students openly about skewed threats from the ideological right. This assignment opens up dialogue against such attacks by introducing core tenets of information literacy in conversation with an instructor's academic work. The…

The author introduces the concept of vitality and its relation to affect. Stern defined vitality as the feeling of flow and aliveness. The author drew on research from literacy, curriculum theory, and the work of Stern to argue for the value of the concept of vitality for thinking about how literacy comes to feel vital. The author argues that…

The authors, university instructors, when confronted with extreme time constraints in a summer course during the COVID-19 pandemic, redesigned their course structure prioritizing their values and goals. Intentional choices provide teacher candidates with time together to slow down and interact more fully in a read-aloud centered, writer's…

The OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) represents a comprehensive international comparative assessment of the information processing skills of adults vital for the full participation in social and economic life in the 21st century. PIAAC is now in its second cycle and continues a series of international…

Open remix, defined as the objects, processes, and mindsets developed through the act of combining or manipulating open educational resources to create something new (Hilton et al., 2010; Knobel & Lankshear, 2008; Lessig, 2004; Wiley, n.d.), serves as an effective teaching and learning practice for its propensity to expand technological…

Preparing graduates for employment is the goal of postsecondary education. In response to the national quantitative reasoning deficiency, institutions have joined nationwide to align college math content and learning outcomes to meet the needs of common careers and everyday life. The problem addressed in this study is that traditional college math…

Information literacy is a fundamental aspect to ease students in encompassing the knowledge-making process as well as empowering their capacity in using and creating various information and knowledge products. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of integrating information literacy rubric with Project-Based Learning on students'…