Presented at LILAC 2022

1. MILA Framework workshop:
Taking the next steps
Stephane Goldstein, Anne-Lise Harding
and Jane Secker
@jsecker |@anneliseharding |@infolitgroup
jane.secker@city.ac.uk/hardingab@parliament.uk

2. CILIP Definition of
Information Literacy
2018
“Information literacy is the ability to
think critically and make balanced
judgements about any information
we find and use. It empowers us as
citizens to develop informed views
and to engage fully with society.”

3. IL in five
contexts:
health
education
workplace
democracy
everyday life

4. The Media and Information
Literacy Alliance
Purpose
Our purpose is to promote media and information literacy in the UK as a
fundamental building block of a healthy, inclusive and democratic society.
Vision
Our vision is of a society in which everyone is empowered to engage critically with
media and information.
Mission
Our mission is to champion media and information literacy and to provide an open
platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange.

5. Current MILA board members
• Lucy Crompton-Reid – Chief Executive, Wikimedia UK
• Sue Lacey-Bryant – National Lead, NHS Library and
Knowledge Services
• Julian McDougal – Professor in Media and Education,
Bournemouth University
• Liz Moorse – Chief Executive, Association for
Citizenship Teaching
• Lis Parcell – Subject specialist, digital practice (libraries
and learning resources services), Jisc
• Nick Poole – CEO of CILIP
• Sophie Randall – Director of Patient Information Forum
• Jane Secker – Senior Lecturer in Educational
Development at City, University of London, and Chair of
the CILIP Information Literacy Group
• Anoush Simon – Senior Lecturer in Information Studies,
Aberystwyth University
• Carolyn Waite – Information Development Manager,
Lancashire Libraries

6. The Government’s Online
Media Literacy Strategy and
action plan (DCMS)
Launched July 2021
Librarians play a key role
Online Media Strategy

7. What do the public think about information
literacy?
“If you are literate you are able
to communicate and interact
fully with people, both written
and verbally. Information
literacy is about researching
things and finding out what is
correct and not correct.”
“Not to assume that what
you're being told is completely
accurate, to question what
you've been told, and to be
able to challenge things that
don't feel right.”
“To be able to access
information that you
can use in your
everyday life.”

8. Why does IL matter to people?
“It’s important because that's
what life is about. It affects
how you reach decisions on
what to do with your life and
how you interact with other
people.”
“I believe it is important as
without it people are
susceptible to being misled and
potentially taken advantage of.
Without being critical of
information you absorb
someone's else's opinion rather
than forming your own.”
“Because it helps people
reach an informed decision
- and an informed decision
is one that they are less
likely to have regrets about,
especially from a careers
perspective.”

9. Our 5 key
aspirations for
people living in an
information society:
• Be informed
• Be empowered
• Be healthy
• Be socially conscious
• Be connected

10. I can find reliable
health information
to make decisions
to manage my
health and to care
for others.
I can use
information to
make a positive
impact in my
community and for
those around me.
I can find
trustworthy
information, fact
check it and
make sense of it.
I can make the
right decisions for
my own personal
and professional
development and
support those
around me.
I can evaluate,
choose and use the
right online
services and
information
effectively and
responsibly.
Be informed
Be healthy Be socially
conscious
Be connected
Be empowered

11. Activity 1:
Aspiration
anchoring
Choose an aspiration and
explain how it manifests in
your own context. Add
additional examples to those
in the framework currently

12. Activity 2:
I can, how
do you?
Focus on choosing the most relevant “I can”
statements for your current instruction and share
how you currently teach users.
Share if you feel anything is missing from the “I can”
statements.

13. Activity 3:
Activity
building
Based on the discussions in the previous activities
and learning from others participants how are you
currently enabling users to meet “I can” statements
The table will work on designing learning activities
for the same I can statements.

14. Find out more
MILA framework
MILA website

15. Information literacy: our
greatest challenge, our
biggest opportunity
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

16. Any questions?
• Follow us on Twitter:
@infolitgroup @jsecker @anneliseharding
• The Media and Information Literacy Alliance
• The Information Literacy website