School administrators should foster the idea of the school as a contemporary learning culture where students are aware that "learning how to learn" is an essential ability in their education. Educators who understand the need for information literacy skills in our knowledge-rich society can bring a vision of their role in a lifetime of learning to the school population and community.
A shift in the educational paradigm is beginning to take place from the almost exclusive concentration on subject matter to a process-oriented focus on the learning experience itself. As we approach the 21st century, there is no doubt that our educational system must equip students to cope strategically with new technologies and how to retrieve, analyze, evaluate, and present information. The staggering growth of knowledge demands that we know how to utilize many types of resources and to question what we encounter with increased vigilance. Students must be prepared to re-educate themselves many times over to thrive in a world of constant change where the array of information choices is ever increasing and the technologies for accessing that information is becoming increasingly complex. Teachers who implement resource-based programmes have the chance to foster a learning culture as they teach students how to cope and hopefully, to thrive, in the information age.
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