STUDENT SUCCESSSession 1: The Info Landscape

andINFORMATION USE

Kyle Denlinger

Kyle Denlingerkddt33@mail.missouri.edu

Kyle Denlingerkddt33@mail.missouri.edu

@denriguez

INFO LITERACYHOW OVERWHELMED ARE WE?INFO ANXIETY

EVALUATING INFOHOW IT'LL SAVE YOUR LIFE

IS IT CRAP OR CRAAP?

Informationanxiety

Informationanxiety?

ONETRILLION

ONE unique URLs on the Web in 20081

TRILLION

DAWN OF CIVILIZATIONproduced from the

until about 2003.

Think of all the information

quite a lot, right?

that same amount ofwe now produce

information

DAYS.that same amount ofwe now produce EVERY

TWO information 2

OVERWHELMED?THAT'S INFORMATION ANXIETY.

how about this:

NOT KNOWING HOW TO:FINDEVALUATEUSEHIGH-QUALITY INFORMATION

WE'RE DROWNINGIN A SEA OF INFORMATION.

WE'RE DROWNINGIN A SEA OF INFORMATION.

WHAT CAN SAVE US?

literacyInformation

A NEED FOR INFOINFO LITERACY

what is it?

IS THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE

THOUGHTFUL ?sINFO LITERACY

what is it?

IS THE ABILITY TO ASK

QUALITY SOURCESINFO LITERACY

what is it?

IS THE ABILITY TO LOCATE

LIKE A DETECTIVEINFO LITERACY

what is it?

IS THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE

RESPONSIBLYINFO LITERACY

what is it?

IS THE ABILITY TO USE INFO

TEH INTERNETSINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS LESS TIME SEARCHING

THINGS YOU LIKEINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS MORE TIME DOING

RESEARCHINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS LESS FRUSTRATING

LEARNINGINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS MORE SATISFYING

GARBAGEINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS LESS

GRADESINFO LITERACY

what is it?

MEANS BETTER

PEOPLEINFO LITERATE

ARELIKE INFO

NINJAS

why?

why?they know crap from CRAAP.

why?they know crap from CRAAP.(and they're deadly efficient!)

huh?

informationEvaluating

NOT ALL INFO ISCREATED EQUAL.HOW DO WE DETERMINEGOOD INFOFROM BAD INFO?

Use the CRAAP Test.Really.

CRAAP

CurrencyRelevanceAuthorityAccuracyPurpose

CurrencyRAAP

How old is the material?Does the age matter?

CurrencyRAAP

Historical research:Old info = helpful!

Medical research:Old info = painful!

CRelevanceAAP

Does it answer myHow well does this fit?

question?

CRAuthorityAP

Are they an expert?

Who created it?

A journalist? A student?Just some weirdo?

CRAAccuracyP

Is it backed up How accurate is the info?

by other sources?

CRAAPurpose

To inform? To persuade?

Why was the info

To entertain?

created?

To mislead?

YOUIT IS UP TOTHE BOTTOM LINE:

TO EVALUATEYOUR INFO

YOUIT IS UP TOTHE BOTTOM LINE:

TO EVALUATEYOUR INFO

YOURMAMAWON'T

DO ITFOR YOU

INFO LITERACY

INFO ANXIETY

EVALUATING INFO

THERE'S LOTS OF INFO OUT THERE.

HELPS YOU BEAT INFO ANXIETY

MAKES YOU AN INFO NINJA

1 Alpert, J. and Hajaj, N. (2008, July 25). We knew the web was big... Official Google Blog. Retrieved from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html.2 Siegler, M. (2010, August 4). Eric Schmidt: Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003. TechCrunch. Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/

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