I have uploaded the first published article that mentions FOSIL – Not Waving but Drowning: Reconsidering Transitions at Oakham School – which I wrote by invitation for ALISS Quarterly (Volume 9, Number 3, April 2014), the Journal of the Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences (ALISS).

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{Edit on 12 April 2023:

This article is significant for two reasons:

1. It clearly reflects the serendipitous origin of FOSIL as a framework of information literacy skills within an inquiry-based learning process. Had I failed to recognise, or chosen to ignore, the importance and value of the inquiry-based learning process to the systematic and progressive development of information literacy skills [among others], FOSIL would have been stunted in its growth and limited in its application.
2. It almost precisely dates the shift from the arbitrary use of colour for the stages in the process to the deliberate use of colour for instructional purposes – Wonder is orange in the screenshots from Mondrian Wall in Appendix B, whereas Wonder is green in the FOSIL Assessment tool in Appendix D (which also has the final colours for the other stages). I will post separately about the instructional purposes of the colours in due course.

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