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Learn how to tackle information overload, evaluate sources, and develop problem-solving skills in the digital age. Enhance your ability to define tasks, seek information, access reliable sources, use information effectively, synthesize data, and evaluate outcomes. Get equipped to navigate the vast digital landscape!
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Introducing Information Problem-Solving
Survey of Valued SkillsFall 2001 Problem Solving Information Use Speaking Independent Work Technology Group Work Writing Reading www.washington.edu/oea/9811.htm
Information Problem Solving:The Big6™ Skills 1. Task Definition 2. Info Seeking Strategies 3. Location & Access 4. Use of Information 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation
Information Overload Today, a dailyNew York Times has more printed information in it than a person would come across in an entire lifetimein the 17th Century. David Lewis “Introduction to Dying for Information,” www.reuters.com/rbb/research/dfiforframe.htm, 1996
Information Overload “More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000.” (Source: Large, P., The Micro Revolution, Revisited, 1984)
The Solution? • Speed things up? • Pack in more and more content? • Add more technology?
Quality In a study of 500 sites used by Colorado high school students to do research, only 27% of the sites were judged to be reliable for academic research! Ebersol, Samuel, “Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1): September 2000, www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/ebersole.html Colhoun, Alexander. "But - - I Found It on the Internet!" Christian Science Monitor. 25 April 2000: 16.
Alternative Solution • To become discriminating users of information. • To learn to use essential information & technology skills in context. • To become a master information problem-solver
Disclaimer For every realistic, complicated problem There will be a simple, understandable inexpensive solution H.L. Mencken
Disclaimer For every realistic, complicated problem There will be a simple, understandable inexpensive solution that will be wrong. H.L. Mencken
Task Definition 1.1 Define the problem 1.2 Identify the information needed types of information
Information Seeking Strategies 2.1 Determine all possible sources 2.2 Select the best sources brainstorm & narrow
Lesson: Info Seeking Strategy Criteria • easy to use • available • current • affordable • fun • on the topic (valid) • reliable/authoritative • accurate • precise • complete
Location & Access 3.1 Locate sources 3.2 Find information within sources index
Use of Information 4.1 Engage (read, hear, view) 4.2 Extract relevant, quality information relevance
Synthesis 5.1 Organize 5.2 Present medium & message
Evaluation 6.1 Judge the result 6.2 Judge the process effective & efficient