Information Fluency
From Wagnerpedia
Information Fluency is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically in a Web 2.0 technology environment.
An article on Social Cognition and Collaborative Learning Minds on Fire
Link to Article; McEuen (2001). How Fluent with Information Technology are our Students?
One reason for the site Wagnerpedia is to offer an opportunity for students to contribute scholarly work in different formats. The wiki format uses a mix between HTML, wiki formatting, Word, Digital Photo editing, hyperlinking, building bibliographies, and peer review.
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[edit] Field Work
Have you learned some valuable lessons in the field and have images and stories? Maybe you volunteered in Project Hospitality on Staten Island and want to build a community page on the web? Wouldn't it link us better to that community by using web 2.0 technology? Community members could access and edit our pages with us!
[edit] Peer Review
Imagine if you wrote a term paper and had students, faculty and Alumni from 4 different disciplines offering you suggestions on how to improve on your work? What quality of paper would be produced? We work on teams in offices and for businesses where our work is put up on the web, or produced in a collaborative environment. Why not learn this in college?
[edit] Publication
What if we could all publish as undergraduates? Here is a place to get published and have fellow students see the quality of work you have produced? It sort of raises the group expectations, doesn't it?
[edit] Bibliographies
Have you uncovered some very good articles in your paper? Would you like to share that bibliography with others so that they use the same quality sources as you have? Here is the place to do that.
[edit] Plagiarism
Papers that are published are subject to review from a broad range of people. It is more scrutinized than unpublished work.
[edit] Web 2.0
Do you have a presentation that could use some hyperlinks, interactive tools, images, or sound clips? This would be a good place to display it to supplement the hard copy. In order to build a good multi-media presentation, which is what your boss is looking for, you need to know how to work with new web 2.0 technology. Here is the place to practice.
[edit] Categories
Categories are aligned with our cognitive framework!
[edit] References
- Educause 2008
- Wikipedia.org
