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[Technology 1737] Re: The New Literacies: multiple intelligences and information navigation?
Jan Potter
jcpotter at gmail.comWed Sep 3 10:38:56 EDT 2008
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My students generally start here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html especially
with that flash presentation. Most of these are excellent, especially the
Medical Library one: http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html and
with its "top 10 list" at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM, David J. Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello Joan and others,
>
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Joan Medlen wrote:
>
> > Can you clarify me where this might be taught? I think the target
> > audience
> > is what I'm after.
> > As a health care professional, I *do* think we need to help with #1
> > and 2.
> > I need to think about the rest.
>
> I was thinking about the contexts of the adult literacy or adult
> basic education (including ESOL) classroom or tutorial, or online or
> blended learning. I was also thinking about education for out-of-
> school youth. I wasn't particularly thinking about higher ed or K-12,
> or business (except for workplace basic skills programs).
>
> I was just now looking at professional development for businesspeople
> called "skill pills", 2-minute videos delivered to web-accessible
> PDAs on how topics such as how organize and run meetings and how to
> deal with stress, so I also think some of these internet search
> skills could be taught for what I call PLAs (Personal Learning
> Assistants) , that is web-accessible handhelds like Ipod touch/Iphone
> and Blackberry. It's possible that the costs for these handhelds will
> come down and that this will be a major way, in a few years, that
> North Americans access the web.
>
> This is an important issue for health care education, I know,
> especially questions 1 and 3. There is a study in progress now at the
> Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute in Boston with low-literate
> adults on how they use the web to find and use health information.
> When completed, it should provide some insights. There may be other
> studies, too, that can shed some light on how literate adults can or
> could use the web effectively to find and judge information.
>
> Joan, or others, are you aware of "helpful hints" for adults who want
> to find and judge health information on the web?
>
> David J. Rosen
> djrosen at comcast.net
>
> >
> >
> > At 03:15 PM 9/2/2008, I wrote:
> >> Technology Colleagues,
> >>
> >> There have been many interesting responses to my post yesterday, but
> >> so far no one has yet responded to my questions:
> >>
> >> 1) Should we be teaching how to find and judge information?
> >> 2) ...how to navigate efficiently and effectively?
> >> a) Do some of our students already do this better than we do?
> >> b) Should we be learning navigation skills together with
> >> them?
> >> 3) Are there some helpful hints that we should be teaching for Web
> >> page navigation?
> >> a) If so what are they?
> >> 4) Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic
> >> intelligences, or at least honoring them?
> >>
> >> I hope some of you have some answers, and some experience with
> >> teaching how to find/judge information online and how to navigate
> >> well. If so, can you share some helpful hints?
> >>
> >> David J. Rosen
> >> djrosen at comcast.net
> >>
> >> On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:01 PM, David J. Rosen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Technology colleagues,
> >>>
> >>> This article from South Africa's The Times, Newspapers have a
> >>> future if they start thinking, has got me thinking. The author,
> >>> Ray Hartley, the paper's editor, quotes John Seely Brown, the Chief
> >>> Scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown has
> >>> long be an innovative thinker. He says ""The typewriter prized one
> >>> particular kind of intelligence, but with the web, we suddenly have
> >>> a medium that honours multiple forms of intelligence - abstract,
> >>> textual, visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic."
> >>>
> >>> He adds: "People my age tend to think that kids who are
> >>> multiprocessing can't be concentrating. That may not be true.
> >>> Indeed, one of the things we noticed is that the attention span of
> >>> the teens at PARC - often between 30 seconds and five minutes -
> >>> parallels that of top managers, who operate in a world of fast
> >>> context-switching. So the short attention spans of today's kids may
> >>> turn out to be far from dysfunctional for future work worlds."
> >>>
> >>> Brown says: "The new literacy, beyond text and image, is one of
> >>> information navigation. The real literacy of tomorrow entails the
> >>> ability to be your own personal reference librarian - to know how
> >>> to navigate through confusing, complex information spaces and feel
> >>> comfortable doing so. 'Navigation' may well be the main form of
> >>> literacy for the 21st century."
> >>>
> >>> We know that "reading web pages" is different from reading hard
> >>> copy. Web pages often lots of images, increasingly audio and video
> >>> files, as well as text. They also have links to navigate to -- and
> >>> back from. Should we be teaching how to find and judge information,
> >>> how to navigate efficiently and effectively? (Do some of our
> >>> students already do this better than we do?) Should we be learning
> >>> this together with them? Are there some helpful hints that we
> >>> should be teaching for Web page navigation? If so what are they?
> >>>
> >>> Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic
> >>> intelligences, or at least honoring them?
> >>>
> >>> You'll find the article at:
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/5jdmzh
> >>>
> >>> David J. Rosen
> >>> djrosen at comcast.net
> >>>
> >>>
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