With the overwhelming amount of information available today, understanding and evaluating its credibility has never been more crucial. The concept of Information Fluency, which includes the steps Ask, Access, Analyze, Apply, and Assess, helps individuals navigate this sea of data effectively.
Out of the ten grading criteria, five of the sections recieved full points. The project requires students to gather resources from broad sources (all of which were regarded as "quality," due to their proximity to the war), but some of these facts may contain a level of bias since many of the sources were soliders themselves. This activity has the potential to really teach students how to become effective information gathering individuals.
Information Fluency: Understanding and identifying the credibility of information.
The Process
Step back and look at finished product, analyze to see if final product meets criteria
Application of useful information, looks different with each topic: Ex. History essay, scientific data on chart for Science
Understand raw data to find relevant information, "mental filter"
Determining where information is, filtering through excess information, identifying useful sources
Fully understanding the question before asking further questions, identifying key words, listening deeply etc
5A's
Class Project: WWII and a History Lesson to Remember
Collect poetry written by those detained during WWII, and absorbing their feelings by performing the poetry, which would cultivate public speaking skills.
A field trip to a local site pertaining to the topic to enhance student understanding.
Background research from two guest speakers in order to give students different information from different perspectives.
Information Fluency in the Real World
Assess
Discussed how effective the process of identifying a plan and phone had been. Instead of making the impulsive decions they made last year, like getting a plasma tv. Glad they took the time to assess the pros and cons of each company
Apply
Karen and her daughters assembled the information they had gathered from the various sources. Quickly discussed, what they needed for the family plan. Decided not to get a data plan until they had a better handle on how much the plan would cost
Analyze
Girls started to organize and analyze all the information they had acquired lists that summarized the data and read as many many reviews on the cell phone carriers
Acquire
Identify the five most popular national carriers and accessed the information that would answer their questions: Acquire all details, so you can adjust their own questions
Ask
Identify the questions they need answered to help them make the right choice. Formulated questions through brainstorming and identifying key words: Girls figuring out which cell phone service they want to have
Myth-information in the Real World.
Students research a mis-leading wsbite (DHMO.org) Students are outraged that a website could confuse and trick pick people.
Information can be mis-leading
The Amount of Information in the World
The five distinct steps to the Information Fluency are: Ask, Access, Analyze, Apply, and Assess.
We now live in an age of disposable information because of the massive amount of information.
Humans have the ability to store 300 exabytes of memory, or 80 Library of Alexandrias per person.
Computing capacity is increasing at 58% annually
The tide of information is rising much faster than anyone anticipated.
