This course EDUC-6712I-2 Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom is one of the courses that I have come to treasure for the insight and many previously taken for granted facts that it brought to the forefront and accentuates with a renewed vigor. In this course, I have gained many strategies that will remain with me for life and influence my learning and teaching practice forever! The responsibility placed on us both providence and society put teachers in a vulnerable and precarious position, yet most often, we are not fully empowered to fulfill these roles due to lack of adequate resources, and interference from any quarters. As teachers, we are expected to equip students with the 21st century skills that will make them contributing members of the society and give them a competitive edge in the 21st century economy, Warlick, (2010) said teachers are to prepare students for the unpredictable future and teach them how to learn in the new computer information age. Hartman, (2010) opined that we have to work backward, which is the opposite of what we are used to. He pointed out the art of questioning, (Dr. Armstrong noted that, students’ generated questions are better teacher generated questions), searching, evaluating, (Dr, As Coiro, (2003) informed in his article that users of internet must be able to deconstruct what is being red,) synthesizing and communicating as those skills that we have to help our students to learn. Students need to know how to ask the right questions, synthesize pieces of information and add their own signature as well as knowing how to
