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information literacy

information literacy noun: the overall understanding of how information is produced and valued, and used to create new knowledge.

Noun

information literacy (plural information literacies)

  1. The overall understanding of how information is produced and valued, and used to create new knowledge.

information literacy meaning in Malay and Indonesian

information literacy in Malay

ability
celik maklumat

information literacy in Indonesian

ability
literasi informasi

Forms of information literacy

pluralinformation literacies

Questions about information literacy

What does information literacy mean?
Information literacy means the overall understanding of how information is produced and valued, and used to create new knowledge.
What is information literacy in Malay?
Information literacy in Malay is celik maklumat. See Information literacy meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is information literacy?
Information literacy is a noun.
What is the plural of information literacy?
The plural of information literacy is information literacies.

Words near information literacy in the dictionary

  1. information highway
  2. information highways
  3. information impactedness
  4. information integrity
  5. information literacies
  6. information literacy
  7. information management
  8. information market
  9. information markets
  10. information model
  11. information modeling

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