Q. What is Information Literacy?
A. ability to recognise the need to find, organise, evaluate and use such information for effective decision-making or problem solving.
Be aware that some information conveyed to you may be distorted. Be aware that you may require additional information before making a decision.
Q. What is Information Technology Literacy?
A. ability to recognise opportunities for and apply information technology resources to capture and manipulate data, transform data into information and present information.
Q. Why do you need Information Literacy?
A. to function in society, to understand the language and knowledge structures of particular fields of study, to be able to study in fields of interest, to be able to communicate.
Q. Is there a relationship between data, information, and knowledge?
A. Yes. A collection of basic data elements (facts, video, images, sound etc.) are transformed (manipulated) into information. By gathering information we can begin to gain knowledge.
Q. What are the three information types? (and give an example of each)
A. Primary Information – eyewitness account, creative work, discovery
Secondary Information – reports on events, history, theologies
Tertiary Information – indices, bibliographies, browsers
Q. What are the Information Literacy skills identified in the lecture?
A. Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, Evaluation
Q. What are the 5 subdisciplines of Semiotics and what are their attributes?
A. Statistics – patterns, codes, traces, signals
Syntactics – structure, data, records, language, logic, software, files
Semantics – meaning, denotation, signification, proposition, validty, truth
Pragmatics – intent, communication, conversation, negotiation
Social – beliefs, expectations, commitments, contracts, law, culture
Q. What are mind maps useful for?
A. Note taking, organising information in a logical structure, good for exam revision
Q. What is a metaphor? Examples…
A. statements based on some kind of analogy where two things are compared to each other eg desk top metaphor, metaphorically speaking
Q. What are the different types of metaphors?
A. Illustrative, Iconic, Visual, Verbal
Q. What is a cliché?
A. A phrase that conveys some sort of idea or message, a cliché is, in other words a metaphor characterised by its over use.
Q. The usefulness of information is determined by four main factors. What are these four main factors and exemplify.
A. Information Quality – fitness for purpose, author’s credentials, revised edition, intended audience etc.
Information Assessibility – consistent, speed, availability, format
Information Presentation – writing style, organised logically, main points clearly presented
Information Security – Internet fire walls, Business passwords etc
Q. What is Knowledge?
A. A combination of rules, ideas, instincts and procedures that guide actions and decisions.
Q. What are the different types of information retrieval outlined in the lecture?
A. Text database – a set of documents stored and organised on a computer eg proformas
Hypertext documents – interactive links to other parts of the current document eg autotable of contents in word.
Figurative language includes metaphors, similes and
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Meagher, D. (2008b). Understanding Analogies: The Analogy Item Format and the Miller Analogies Test. Pearson.
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Currently, businesses want to use the information effectively for competitive advantage to make better decisions that improve and optimize business processes, predict the market dynamics accurately, optimize forecasts to adequately maintain resources to name a few reasons.
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