Design and implementation of a web-based information literacy cultivation system for emotionally disturbed students

With the widespread of computers and the Internet, our society has been rapidly oriented toward the use of information. This has profoundly influenced the ways in which education is carried out. In an information-oriented society, the ability of understanding information and utilizing information is important to students of special education programs as well as normal students. This research proposes an information literacy cultivation system for emotionally disturbed students. It first identifies the elements of information literacy for these students. Based on the identified elements, the system was designed and implemented to provide the diverse educational opportunities for emotionally disturbed students. The characteristics of the proposed information literacy cultivation system are as follows. First, the system adaptively introduces learning contents according to the levels of students' learning abilities. Second, the system is composed of rich teaching-learning media that can motivate students to actively participate in the learning process. Third, the system promotes the continuous interactions among teachers, students, and their parents. Finally, the system supports the individualized learning activities according to students' learning phases as well as the levels of their learning abilities.