Information & Information Literacy

Information is

• The communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence.

• Comprise the basic facts with context and perspective .

• Everywhere!

• All of the above

What does DIKW stand for

• Drama, Intuition, Knowledge, Wisdom

• Data, Insane, Knowitall, Wise up

• Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

• Documentation, Intelligence, Knave, Welcome

True or False: Data is raw statistics and facts

• True

• False

True or False: Knowledge is information which provides guidance for action.

• True

• False

_________is understanding which knowledge to use for what purpose.

• Data

• Knowledge

• Wisdom

• Information

Information Literacy is

• Increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technology change and proliferating information resources.

• A set of of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information

• Forms the basis for lifelong learning

• Common to all disciplines

• All of the above

True or False: Information Literate people can determine the extent of info needed.

• True

• False

True or False: The first form of writing was Cuneiform

• True

• False

True or False: Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their language during the archaic period, and they added vowels.

• True

• False

Because of widespread illiteracy, in the West, the Middle Ages where called_______________.

• Info-less ages

• Illiterate Ages

• Dark Ages

• None of these