Information literacy is the ability to recognize when information is
             needed and having the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the
             needed information (Williams, 2010). At times there seems to be a
             confounding disconnect with students between receiving information literacy
             instruction and effectively making critical evaluations to understand the
             information (Gurney and Wilkes, 2008). With this disconnect it is
             important for educators to maximize students skills by integrating
             information literacy and technology that can also influence scholarship,
             practice, and leadership. Even though information literacy is an important
             part of an educator's knowledge base, knowing where and how to locate
             information and apply it to instruction is crucial to be a successful
             educator in today's educational environment.
             Today's social environment, along with various technological advances
             changes each and every day. It is up to people as a whole to adapt to
             these changes to keep up with the new technology available to us. And as
             the world is changing quickly due to the technological advances, educators
             are looking at ways in which to empower their students' learning (de Abreu,
             2010). By taking this initiative, educators will not feel a sense of
             failure due to their lack of responsibility because it is up to those
             educators to take the drivers seat and navigate these students.
             As briefly stated before, failure is not an option when it comes to
             maximizing student skills by integrating information literacy. There were
             times when the education environment felt a sense of failure. Badke
             (2009), states that there were two fronts where the Net Generation was let
             down. The first one was the inability to effectively use Google's search
             box. The second one was the failure to introduce academic libraries in
             such a way that students would consider the library a viable way to conduct
             succ...