ICT and information literacy In the Swedish curriculum great responsibility and influence are handed over to the individual. Pupils' responsibility for their own work is emphasised. They are expected to develop their own individual way of learning and to exercise real influence over their education. Their ability to search for and to transform information into knowledge is stressed. All pupils are expected to be able to use information technology as a tool in their search for information. Is there a demand to be "information literate"?An example from a field study:A class 8 (age 14) is doing a work about the European Union. The pupils work in groups of two and almost the whole class is spread out over different parts of the school, most of them in front of a computer. This is an ongoing work that will continue for some weeks. The assignment is to formulate and answer some questions about the European Union (later the same year Sweden will be "chair" country for the European Union for 6 months). Two boys who try to find answers to their questions are observed. They end up at the site of the European Union where they find a lot of reports from the European Union (but not in Swedish). The reports are obviously to complicated for the two boys so instead they turn to a site for a popular Swedish newspaper. There they find "5 questions and answers about the European Union" - a short article with rather simplified and straight forward answers. Quickly they decide to change their question about the European Union to one of the newspaper's questions. Then they start to copy some parts of the newspaper's answers. This example is chosen to illustrate at least two tendencies. Firstly the importance of using ICT has been stressed for years in Swedish schools. In praxis pupils mainly use ICT as a source for information. ICT has almost become synonymous with Internet. Secondly in this process almost the only thing which has been emphasised is ICT literacy (i.e. handling the computer and seek engines). Just a little attention has been paid to information literacy (i.e. handling information and transforming it into knowledge).Issues to discuss at a round table:- What is information literacy?- How is ICT literacy related to information literacy?- How can information literacy be studied in a school context.