If you haven't checked out Matthew Williams blog yet, here is a blurb from his most recent post:

However, in the information age where these facts are always at our fingertips, the need for memorization is far less important. The more important questions are "can you find the information?" and "can you analyze this information?"

Plagiarism is not the fault of the internet, it is the fault of poorly written essay prompts. Most times, these essay prompts are poorly written because they misunderstand or do not recognize this shift in emphasis from content mastery to higher order thinking skills (i.e., it isn't what you know, but what you can do with what you know).

There are a few things in his essay I might argue with, but much of it is spot on. This excerpt highlights much of what I think information literacy is about these days.

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