I believe that information literacy is a very important part of our future. Considering there is so much information in the world today, and not all of it is needed right away, we must scale down the information we have and apply it. We have to apply it to the things we are researching and/or the things we are doing on our computers or in our classrooms. As a teacher, one day I must decide what ways are most effective for teaching my students. With all the different theories on the best ways to teach, one of the basic ideas is that we must not confuse our students and make it as interesting as possible while feeding them the best information that we have. This doesn`t mean all the information, but the information that we have located and evaluated as the best.
The video on the week two assignment was very intersting. It threw out a ton of facts about how much memory we use and how much we need to save in megabytes and gigabytes and any other larger form of the word. The amount we are wanting to save exceeds the amount we can save. This to me is just a confusing concept. Through information literacy, we can scale down this information to what we really need.
Craig, I agree that as future teachers we are going to have to select information that we see as the most valuable and important to show to our students and apply it to our teachings. There is a lot of information available to us today, some of which is unnecessary, but we must choose the most valuable to expose to our future students.
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