- Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information. It is a learning process after all. As being defined, it is a set of abilities required individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information; which can be available or found through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media, and the Internet and increasingly, information comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions about its authenticity, validity, reliability, and various fields of media. It can be either right or wrong, since the information is spreading all around. But at the same time it creates challenges towards society, because people would have to use their skills to understand and evaluate such wide information.
The literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning, that an individual is able to: Determine the extent of information needed, access the needed information effectively and efficiently, evaluate information and its source critically, incorporate selected information into one's knowledge bass, use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose, understand the economic/legal/and social issues surrounding the use of information and access the its use ethically and legally.
2. What is SQRW?
-SQRW is a four-step strategy for reading and taking notes from chapters in a textbook. Each letter stands for one step in the strategy, by using SQRW will help you to understand what you read and to prepare a written record of what you learned. The written record will be valuable when you have to participate in a class discussion and again when you study for a test. Read to learn what to do for each step in SQRW.
Survey- brings to mind what you already know about the topic of a chapter and prepares you for learning more, by reading the title, introduction, headings, and the summary/conclusion. From this point you will quickly learn what the chapter is all about.
Question- you will need to have questions in your mind as you read, because those will give you a purpose of reading and help you stay focused on the reading assignment. Form questions by changing each chapter heading into a question. Use the words who, what, when, where, or how. Do not form questions for the introduciton, summary, or conclusion.
Read- read the information that follows each heading to find the answer to each question you formed. As you do this, you may decide you need to change a question or turn it into several questions to be answered. Stay focused and flexible so you can gather as much information as you need to answer question.
Write- write each question and its answer in your notebook. Reread each of your written answers to be sure each answer is legible and contains all the important information needed to answer the question.
3. Use big 6 skills
-step 1) Define problems, information requirement: Why is there such a big gap between the rich and the poor in the world?
-step 2) Seeking strategies: Type in "gap between rich and poor" into www.bing.com
-step 3) Location and Access:
http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Business-international/Rich-Thais-poor-Thais-Cooling-off.html
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=6830&sec=3
http://jrocas.com.ph/archives/organ-trade-bridges-gap-between-rich-and-poor/
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/Slouch_divergence5.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/incomgap.htm
-step 4) Information Use:
Example Information:
WIRELESS FILEUNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICESTOCKHOLM SWEDEN07/16/96REPORT SEES GROWING GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR NATIONS(89 countries worse off than a decade ago, U.N. says) (1515)By Jon SchafferUSIA Staff WriterWashington --
The gap in economic development between wealthy and poornations is widening daily, according to a United Nations' report."The world has become more economically polarized both betweencountries and within countries," said James Gustave Speth,administrator of the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP). "If presenttrends continue, economic disparities between industrial anddevelopment nations will move from inequitable to inhuman.
The report acknowledges strong economic growth and major gains ineducation in a number of developing countries. But it says the incomegains have been concentrated in a small number of developing countriesand, in many cases, have not benefited the poorest people.
Today, the net worth of the 358 richest people is equal to thecombined income of the poorest 45 percent of the world's population --2,300 million people. The report says that developing countries, with 80 percent of theworld's population, account for only about 20 percent of world output. The gap in per-capita annual income between the industrial anddeveloping worlds tripled between 1960 and 1993, from $5,700 to$15,400, it saysEven in the United States, the wealthiest 1 percent of the populationincreased its share of total assets between 1975 and 1990 from 20percent to 36 percent, the UNDP says.
The report says that in more than 100 of the 174 countries for whichdata are collected, per-capita income is lower than it was 15 yearsago. In 19 countries, per-capita income is less than it was in 1960or before."As a result, more than a quarter of humanity -- 1,600 million people-- are worse off today than they were 15 years ago.
The report measures development by combining three components -- lifeexpectancy at birth, educational attainment and inflation-adjustedincome. It ranks the top five countries in human development asCanada, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway and ranksthe top five among developing countries as Cyprus, Barbados, Bahamas,South Korea and Argentina.
-step 5) Synthesis: Putting information together
- People come from different family background
- People have different level of education
- Some certain people are just selfish and immoral
- Different path of national background of each country
- Existence of corruption in the world
- National Resources
- Religions and believes
- Different level of income, which effects national revenue of each country
- Random habits and personalities of human, etc....
-step 6) Evaluation: I personally believe that people have all the right in equality. It doesn't matter in which religion you believe in, or in which country you were born. As long as morality occurs, "gap" between rich and poor will gradually fade away from our global society.
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