Information literacy: 

"is the ability to think critically and make balanced judgments about any information we find and use. It empowers us as citizens to reach and express informed views and to engage fully with society." (CILIP, 2018)

This active and critical way of learning encourages pupils and students to quickly master factual and descriptive elements of content (‘What’ and ‘How’) and then move on to investigate higher-level aspects such as source, degree of authority, the possibility of bias, and what it means in the wider context. Essentially, to equip students “to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgment." (CILIP, 2018).

(SIFT (The Four Moves), 2019) 

(Research Guides: Fake News and Information Literacy: The SIFT Method, 2023) 

References

Coonan, E., Geekie, J., Goldstein, S., Jeskins, L., Jones, R., Macrae-Gibson, R., & Walton, G. (2018). CILIP definition of information literacy 2018. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Information Literacy Group, 4. https://infolit.org.uk/ILdefinitionCILIP2018.pdf

Landøy, A., Popa, D., Repanovici, A. (2020). Basic Concepts in Information Literacy. In: Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34258-6_3

Research Guides: Fake News and Information Literacy: The SIFT Method. (2023). Research Guides. https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/fakenews/sift

SIFT (The Four Moves). (2019). Hapgood.  https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/