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  <h4><strong>Promote policies that sustain information access for the American public.</strong></h4> »

  Actively Promote Information, Media, and Digital literacy

  Too often, educational reform policies such as Information, Media, and Digital Literacy are overlooked and/or undervalued in national discourse regarding what benefits the public good, except, of course, where it is politically expedient to do so. More engagement of these issues as key social determinants in meeting successfully the lifelong learning needs and challenges of underserved Americans is essential, particularly ...more »

  Too often, educational reform policies such as Information, Media, and Digital Literacy are overlooked and/or undervalued in national discourse regarding what benefits the public good, except, of course, where it is politically expedient to do so. More engagement of these issues as key social determinants in meeting successfully the lifelong learning needs and challenges of underserved Americans is essential, particularly for institutions like IMLS in the process of developing meaningful, operational strategic plans. Investing in program evaluation strategies using community based participatory research methodology may even enhance the mission and stature of IMLS. In the final analysis, what benefits the underserved, in effect, can benefit all of America.

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  Submitted by nfil 1 year ago

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  <h4><strong>Promote effective public access to physical and digital content.</strong></h4> »

  Promote Communities of Inquiry

  Find out what people are curious about or want to learn. Gather local and community experts, develop workshops, use the workshops to increase skills and help people find out what they really need to know and what they really need to learn. In the context of topic focussed workshops, incorporate guidance in the resources, tools and strategies. Use the whole to build local learning communities and groups to spur creativity ...more »

  Find out what people are curious about or want to learn. Gather local and community experts, develop workshops, use the workshops to increase skills and help people find out what they really need to know and what they really need to learn. In the context of topic focussed workshops, incorporate guidance in the resources, tools and strategies. Use the whole to build local learning communities and groups to spur creativity and innovation..

  Coordinated and/or led by a librarian in a space the could be a library. In other words, feed people's curiosity and needs to develop skills, spur innovation and develop digital and information literacy.

  Nice to have powerhouse central location, but local locations more likely to attract. THe same workshop can "travel" between libraries.

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  Submitted by uwzarinnie 1 year ago

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