The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the development of children’s information literacy in school education.

Abstract

The Information and Knowledge Society is the transforming agent of society into an informational ecosystem and demands information literacy, which needs to be developed by everyone. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) allow individuals to elaborate, disseminate, communicate and interact with information and they are related to the evolution of society.
The school is the ideal space to start developing information skills and to have the contact with the ICT. This study analyzes the benefits of the stimulus to the use of ICT in schools to develop, in students, information literacy. The methodology used is the analysis of 6 articles published in the last 15 years. The results of the analysis prove the importance of the use of ICT in the development of information literacy in students and also demonstrate that teachers need better training regarding the use of ICT for classroom teaching and as an object of training in information skills.
The study concludes that ICTs are changing people's way of life and should be incorporated into children's day-to-day activities since the primary education.