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Today. Group activity: What is information? Slides: What is information literacy? Review homework Group activity: Ages of Information Assign Course Journal Assign homework for next week. What is “Information”?. 1. Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction.

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  1. Today Group activity: What is information? Slides: What is information literacy? Review homework Group activity: Ages of Information Assign Course Journal Assign homework for next week

  2. What is “Information”? 1. Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction. 2. Knowledge of specific events or situations that has been gathered or received by communication; intelligence or news. 3. A collection of facts or data: statistical information. 4. The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge: Safety instructions are provided for the information of our passengers. 5. Computer Science Processed, stored, or transmitted data. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. s.v. "information," http://www.credoreference.com/entry/hmdictenglang/information (accessed January 20, 2011).

  3. What is “Information”? • Meaningful data, perceptions, impressions • Signs • Messages • If it is meaningful to someone, then it’s probably information

  4. What is “Information Literacy”? Seeking, evaluating, using and creating information to achieve personal, social, occupational and educational goals A basic human right

  5. What is “Information Literacy”? Uncertain quality and increasing quantity of available information pose large challenges The sheer abundance of information will not in itself create a more informed citizenry A complementary set of skills and abilities necessary to use information effectively

  6. What is “Information Literacy”? Essential skills for life-long learning Common to all disciplines Necessary at all levels of education and life stages These skills are “not extraneous to the curriculum,” but “woven into the curriculum’s content, structure and sequence.”

  7. What is “Information Literacy”? NOT a set of technical skills, but rather critical thinking, learning to learn, self-empowerment “Intellectual framework for understanding, finding, evaluating, and using information—activities which may be accomplished in part by fluency with information technology, in part by sound investigative methods, but most importantly, through critical discernment and reasoning.”

  8. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Determine the extent of information needed Access the needed information effectively and efficiently Evaluate information and its sources critically Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally

  9. Today Group activity: What is information? Slides: What is information literacy? Review homework Group activity: Ages of Information Assign Course Journal Assign homework for next week

  10. The Many Ages of Information Stone Age Agricultural Age Industrial Age Information Age Compare the following considerations for each age: What were the means of communication during this time? What was the speed of communication? What were the means for “spreading the word”? What was the size of the audience? How much information was transmitted in any one communication? (How big was the file?) What was the purpose of transmitting the information? How important was the need for an accurate and reliable answer?

  11. Today Group activity: What is information? Slides: What is information literacy? Review homework Group activity: Ages of Information Assign Course Journal Assign homework for next week

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