Transcript Managing Information: Lessons for the 21st Century

INFO MGT IN THE
ST
21 CENTURY
Dr. Rob Hallis
Instructional Design Librarian
Associate Professor of Library Services
University of Central Missouri
BME, BM, BA, MM, MLIS, Ph.D.
New Century / New Challenge
• Information is Different
• We use it differently
• Academically
• Personally
• Students are Different
• Environmentally
• Biologically
• Managing the Chaos
• Understanding the question
• Understanding Context
• Understanding Credibility / Reliability
New Century / New Information
• Amount of Information
• Format is Different
• Pace is different
• Specificity is Different
New Information
-From Small [10-14] to Smaller [10-35]
Images from Powers of 10 and Scale of the Universe
New Information
-From Large [1024] to Larger
Images from Powers of 10 and Scale of the Universe
[1026]
New containers for information
Images from Yahoo.Com
New Forms/Forums of Publication
New Environments
Images from SecondLife
Archives Online
Archive Materials
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
Tweets
Pushed Information
Images the App Zite
Blogs
Homepage from 911blogger.com
Is Peer Reviewed still the Gold Standard?
• Accuracy
• Guardian:
• Clarity
• Language
• Purpose
• Relevance to the question
Is Peer Reviewed still the Gold Standard?
• Accuracy
• Guardian:
• Clarity
• Language
• Purpose
• Relevance to the question
Do Students know what is on the Internet
Crovitz, L. Gordon.
New Sources
-MLA 7th Edition
Common Sources
Additional Common Sources
• Article
• Broadcasts: TV/Radio
• Book
• Sound recording
• Translations
• Film/Video Recording
• Interview
• Performance
• Web Publication
• Musical Score/Libretto
• Dissertation
• Cartoon
• Government Publication
• Advertisement
• Brochure
• Memo
• Proceedings
• Legal Source
New Assignments
• Pedagogical Methods
• Inquiry
• Constructionist
• New Technologies
• Mashups
• Journaling
• Videoconferencing [Skype]
Inquiry / Constructionist Pedagogy
• Information Management in the Rubric
• Find 3 scholarly sources; evaluated on
• Appeared in journal
• Correctly cited
• Find three authoritative sources that relate to your topic
• Credibility of Sources
• Appropriately related to point of the assignment
• Appropriately integrated in assignment
Google a day
Google a day
Ask.com?
Information:
Fitting the Pieces Together
Overview/
Background
[Context]
Scholarly
Information
[Experts]
Primary
Documents
[Spectator]
General
Information
[Accurate &
Accessible]
New Students
• Many familiar with rudimentary searching
• Generally overconfident
• Generally lacking context
• Confusing foraging for searching
• Unaware of
• What is on the internet
• Who writes the content
• How searches arrange information
Information Management Skills
• ACRL
• SCONUL
• Managing Chaos
• Understanding the question
• Understanding Context
• Understanding Authenticity
• Assessing the use, not the source
ACRL Standards
• 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
• (ACRL)
7 pillars of SCONUL
[Society of College, National and University Libraries]
• Establishing opportunities for using information literacy skills
• Identify a knowledge gap and the information needed to fill it
• Planning and carrying out searches
• Critically evaluating results, information and sources
• Communicating and presenting findings accurately and
appropriately
• Reflecting on effectiveness of approach and adapting as
necessary
• Identifying own learning, success and failures, and ways
forward
(SCONUL)
Evaluating the Use
• Information Management in the Rubric
• Assessing the format of the source
• Find 3 scholarly sources; evaluated on
• Appeared in journal
• Correctly cited
• Assessing the relevance of the source
• Find three authoritative sources that relate to your topic
• Credibility of Sources
• Appropriately related to point of the assignment
• Appropriately integrated in assignment
Describing your Search- Linking Terms
Useful Information
Dog
Service
Animal
Anxiety
Describing your Search
Useful Sources
Dog
Service
Animal
Anxiety
• Psychological Journal
• Peer Reviewed
• Sociological Journal
• Peer Reviewed
• Organizations
• ADA / dogster.com
• Blogs
• Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Common words
do not indicate
Common content
• Prehistory
• Prehistory
[cover of Prehistory: The Making of the
Human Mind]
• [cover of Prehistory of the Mind]
• Development of Concept
• When were we aware of
events before written
record
• Ability
• What were human
ancestors intellectual
abilities
Understanding the Question
• Nature of your question determines the information
needed to support your conclusion
• Service dogs are useful in helping PTSD patients
• People having service dogs for anxiety disorders experience
problems bringing their animals ion trips/in buildings etc.
• There are a shortage of service dogs for those suffering anxiety
disorders
• Intuitive nature of dogs make them ideal service animals for those
suffering from anxiety disorders
Reliability of the Source
• First hand account [blogs, Wiki’s, storycorps]
• Scholarly perspective
• Informed opinion
Homepage from storycore.org
Creating Context
• Adjusting Rubrics to evaluate
• Exploring the breadth of available Info
• Relating the sources to the task
• Choosing appropriate experts
• Choosing appropriate formats
CREDITS
• Created by Robert Hallis
• Design & Graphics Robert Hallis
• Screens accurate as of 8/2012
Bibliography
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Crovitz, L. Gordon. “Before ‘Wagergate’ Could be Googled.” Wall Street journal,
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Israel Museum. The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Web.
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Storycorps. Web. <http://storycorps.org/>. Accessed 8/1/2012.
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