(408) PRINCIPLES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LITERACY PROGRAM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

摘要

The study explored how students manage personal information, in order to suggest principles for a training program that aims to enhance personal information management (PIM) literacy. We examined the digital platforms that students use to manage personal information, their practices for saving, managing and retrieving information items, and how these are related to gender and age. We found that the students' personal information space consists of three major platforms: laptop, mobile phone, and email account. We learned that students use various practices for managing their personal information spaces, the main ones related to useful retrieving of personal information items. We observed differences in the extent to which various students use each practice, and identified significant differences in the use of digital platforms and PIM practices between male and female students of different ages. Based on our findings, we offer principles for the implementation of a PIM literacy program that includes a reflective process on students' PIM practices, group discourse on PIM behavior, and exposure to varied information technologies that could improve students' ability to cope with PIM in learning tasks.