Do I want to do this...Info Lit?

I have been very confused with Information Literacy since day 1. I've read articles and I read different meanings but I am not completely sure I still understand it well to be able to think on how to teach my classroom children how to apply it.  I still don't understand if it’s a skill, or is it a requirement or an ability. I do know and confess, that I, as a student, as a teacher, as a person, have used information, whatever I find first, instead of taking my time to read, to browse, to highlight and bookmark from many websites and blogs and articles available. So that said, how can I teach my children not to be lazy and to take advantage of all of what there is available for them to learn. Taking technology courses has opened my eyes and my mind to many ideas, to many thoughts, to many conclusions on what I need to do. I work with small children and I think it’s the right age to begin with. They are so open to learn, they are sponges; they actually want to learn as much as they can, (as much as their attention span allows them). Having technology since a very young age is changing the way they learn, the way they explore and also it changes their expectations; their isn’t anything us teachers cannot know. And that is because we have absolutely every way to investigate, not only to find an answer, but also to find examples, videos, pictures, links, we can Skype experts, we can travel anywhere we want without even moving and we can expand our knowledge in so many ways.

So my advice is to incorporate this into our lives. As adults we CAN still learn, we can still improve, we can still grow. We need to accept that we are in a new era where most of our excuses do not apply anymore, we have million of options and ways to always be on top of it. We just have to want to!