With the rapid development and wide application of computer technology, network technology and mobile communication technology, information is everywhere. In middle schools, information technology aims to improve students' information literacy. Information literacy includes basic knowledge of information technology, basic skills of obtaining information, transmitting information, processing information and applying information, and cultural, ethical and social issues related to information technology. As a middle school student in the 2 1 century, the basic information literacy should include the following points: 1. The ability to control, acquire, transmit, store, process and express information. 2. Be able to use information technology for independent and effective learning and communication with others. 3. Have certain information awareness, information ethics, legal awareness and social responsibility. The Ministry of Education's Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Information Technology Courses in Primary and Secondary Schools points out that students should "enhance their information awareness and understand the development of information technology and its impact on society" in junior high school.
The cultivation of middle school students' information literacy is mainly to cultivate the following abilities: (1) The ability to use information tools, such as collecting, editing, sending and storing information. (2) Ability to obtain information: According to the learning objectives, we can collect learning materials in various ways to obtain information. (3) Information processing ability: including the ability to distinguish between true and false information, screen and analyze, and summarize and express information. (4) Ability to create information: be able to find the growing point of information and discover and create new information. (5) Information expression ability: You can make information expression concrete and concise in your own language. (6) Awareness of information cooperation: Have a correct outlook on life and values, be able to consciously remove information junk, avoid harmful information, resist the erosion and interference of bad information, and be willing to cooperate with others.
Second, measures to cultivate middle school students' information literacy
The cultivation of middle school students' information literacy is rich in content and diverse in measures. The following are some teaching experiences of the author.
1. Create a good teaching environment and atmosphere.
As the saying goes, if you are near Zhu Zhechi, you will be black, if you are near Mexico. Students' information literacy is cultivated through listening and listening, and teachers' words and deeds will have a subtle influence on students. Therefore, teachers should make full use of multimedia and other resources for teaching. The popularization and application of modern educational technology has created a good teaching environment for the cultivation of teachers and students' information literacy. Our school attaches great importance to the modernization of teaching environment. Each classroom is equipped with multimedia whiteboard teaching, advanced broadcasting system, and two computer rooms are equipped with 1 10 XP computers. The internet also covers the whole campus. These hardware facilities have laid a material foundation for cultivating students' information literacy and created an excellent information learning environment for students. In the information technology class, students can use the network for group discussion and exchange, carry out collaborative learning, and cultivate students' cooperative ability; Students use internet tools such as e-mail, chat rooms and virtual environment to communicate and discuss with teachers, and realize online counseling and answering questions. Such an environment and atmosphere is particularly conducive to cultivating middle school students' awareness of actively obtaining information.
2. Pay attention to improving teachers' information literacy.
The key to cultivating students' literacy is to improve teachers' literacy. Teachers' collective information literacy directly affects students' information awareness and learning enthusiasm.
Our school trains teachers' educational technology ability every year, and strives to have a team of teachers with good information literacy and high educational technology ability. Only by mastering certain computer network operation skills, learning to use commonly used instruments and software, and more importantly, changing educational concepts, cultivating and strengthening information awareness, and developing and using online information to serve teaching, can teachers strive to create a learning environment for cultivating information literacy, organize and guide students to use multimedia means, fully perceive and understand learning objects, and creatively solve problems.
3. Pay attention to cultivating students' information consciousness.
Information consciousness refers to students' cognitive process of specific information and their ability to judge and capture information. Information consciousness belongs to the category of ideology, and its development, change and cultivation are restricted by both social factors and its own cultural quality. On the basis of fully understanding the meaning of information consciousness, middle school students should consciously cultivate their own information consciousness, pay attention to the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of knowledge structure, and turn the level of understanding, value discovery, development and utilization of information into conscious action. Over time, they will gradually establish information consciousness in the subconscious.
4. Pay attention to cultivate and improve the ability to use information in study and life.
Information ability is a necessary psychological feature for people to successfully carry out information activities and the core of information literacy. Under the trend of informationization in educational environment, students are required to have good information ability to explore, discover and apply knowledge. The practical ability to use information flexibly refers to the ability to reasonably use certain information means to collect, analyze, process and create necessary information independently or in cooperation with others, and to publish and transmit information according to the recipient's situation. The practical ability to use information flexibly is the ability to solve problems with the help of information technology. For example, let students design and produce electronic tabloids and personal websites. Through practical application, it not only stimulates students' thirst for knowledge, but also improves students' ability to solve practical problems and cultivates students' good information literacy, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Information technology teaching plays a leading role in the formation and development of students' information ability.
5. Pay attention to students' information ethics education.
Information ethics refers to the process of information development, dissemination, retrieval, acquisition, management and utilization, adjusting the interest relationship between people and between people and society, standardizing people's code of conduct and guiding people to make correct or good choices and evaluations in the information society. In the use of information, we should have a correct and positive attitude and consciously abide by the principles of information ethics such as harmlessness, fair participation, informed consent and respect for intellectual property rights. This is the information ethics that every citizen should have in the information society, and it is also an important factor for students' information literacy.
Therefore, it is necessary to educate students on information ethics, including correctly identifying pollution information: fraud, garbage, violence, racial discrimination and hatred, pornography, feudal superstition and so on. For example, the network is a double-edged sword, which can spread useful information as well as harmful information, such as viruses. At this time, students are required to carry forward information ethics, consciously spread information beneficial to human beings, resist bad information, and even stifle it; Be able to treat the hacker problem rationally and use technology in positive aspects such as anti-hacking, rather than destroying network resources and other vicious aspects. Of course, teachers can also teach students to respect each other, cooperate with each other, respect the labor achievements of others in the application of information technology, abide by network protocols and relevant laws and regulations, and let students realize that these information literacy is not far away from themselves, and be happy, healthy, active and law-abiding good citizens and students.
6. Integrate information education into the teaching of all subjects.
We should cultivate information literacy throughout the whole process of school education and teaching. As a traditional teaching organization, classroom teaching also plays an important role in cultivating students' information literacy. It integrates the spirit and intention of information literacy into the requirements of curriculum and teaching, and runs through the whole teaching activities, which is conducive to the cultivation of students' information ability. The integration of information technology and other subjects' courses is to infiltrate the teaching process of other subjects' courses with the learning knowledge of other subjects as the carrier and information technology as the tool and means, so as to cultivate students' comprehensive ability to solve subject problems by using information technology.
The popularization of modern information technology, the development of network technology and rich online teaching resources provide a complete subject knowledge environment for teachers and students. Learning in this environment requires students to have good information literacy, and the formation of good information literacy requires knowledge of other disciplines. Without basic knowledge, the formation of information literacy will become an empty talk. On the other hand, information literacy will play a more and more important role in students' learning and all-round development, and slowly affect students' learning in other disciplines. While cultivating students' information literacy, we can't ignore the study of basic culture.
Three. Concluding remarks
Information literacy is an important part of people's overall literacy in the information society, and the cultivation of students' information literacy can not be completed in a short time, which requires a lot of time, manpower and material resources. Cultivating students' information literacy has a long way to go, and we will make unremitting efforts to make it run through the whole quality education in order to improve the overall quality of the whole nation.