It's about higher-order thinking skills, and tools which give us organization, analysis, and control of information and communication. There is a flood of information available... Being able to find what you need, process it, and communicate it intelligibly is the challenge. Students need to develop these information-literacy skills.  
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"The challenge to us as educators lies in keeping up with an information environment that has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, a decade during which the very nature of information has changed in appearance, location, accessibility, application, and communication. Whether we like it or not, with the information age comes a whole new set of basic skills."
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In this growing knowledge-economy my role is to help people hone these skills.  Read Experiencing Knowledge at InnovateOnline for more on information literacy.