infowhelm
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We live in the
age of Infowhelm
Our Digital Output
In 2003 all the information online added up to 5 Exabytes (or 5,000,000,000 Gigabytes)
Our Digital Output In 2009
all the information online added up to 500 Exabytes
(or 500, 000,000,000 Gigabytes)Or 13 x the distance between the
Earth and Pluto
= 10,000% increase in 6 years
2009
Digital output = 500 Exabytes
= books stacked 13 x from the Earth to
Pluto
An increase of 10,00% in 6 years
In 2015?In 2015 (If with the same increase of
10,000% in 6 years) makes 50,0000 exabytes
or 13,000 x distance between the Earth and
Pluto!!! [it's probably at least triple that!]
2015
*Digital output = 500,000 Exabytes
= books stacked 13,000 x from the
Earth to Pluto
If an increase of 10,000% in 6 years
* If at the same increase of previous 6 years
Having access to so much
information
changes the skills students
need to learn.
We need Information Literacy skills (sometimes called Information
Fluency)
We need to:• ask good questions and to search
smart• learn how to analyse and evaluate
information• determine fact from opinion
These are the information Literacy skills we will be learning in these lessons
this year