Information Literacy

Information Literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, manipulate, manage, and communicate information from different sources.
Digital Horizons, p5, 2002
A good start with helping your students become information literate is having a school wide "Inquiry Learning" model. The joy of a school wide model is that the kids are using the same language during their inquiries throughout the different class levels. There are many varieties of models from Gwen Gawith's Action Learning to De Bono's Six Hats, just to mention a couple. It may be that your school decides to come up with your own model.
If you are not currently using an Inquiry Model then it's important that time is spent teaching your students how to be self directed learners.
The following website has a good model with learning outcomes for teaching the different steps.
Noodle Tools - Information Literacy
Also the home page of this site is worth looking at.
http://www.noodletools.com/
as well as "Action Research Resources"

Have a good day - Ivan