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Information Methods

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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,...

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