What is Information?

• it is defined as the data that is used by people to make sense of the world.

• it can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty.

Why do people create information?

• to inform

• to educate

• to entertain

• to influence

• self fulfilment

• personal goal

Why do people need information?

• to have knowledge

• to have skills in literacy

• to motivate or level up the mood

• physical disabilities

• intellectual abilities

FACTORS IN INFORMATION USE:

1. Instrumental or used to do something tangible to acquire as a skill to reach a goal.

2. Cognitive: to generate ideas.

3. Affective: used information to feel supported, to derive pleasure, or to develop and maintain personal or social relationship.

4. Political/Economical: to acquire ideas relating to the government or public affairs of the country.

5. Social: it is an expectations or social norms.

6. Contextual: physical environment, work roles or way of life.

What is the role of information literacy?

• information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

• Information Literate: it is a person who has a wide range of skills or abilities to make efficient and effective use of information sources.

What are the Barriers in Information use?

• Personal

• not knowing what information is needed or available.

• Do not know what questions to ask

• Do not know where to look for the information

• Do not know the sources exists

• the information needed may not exist

• a person may lack communication skills

• a person may be discouraged by the sources that they approach

• information scatted

• lack of trust in information sources.

How can we make information useful?

• It must be ideally accurate, precise, complete, reliable, communicated properly, timely, detailed, understandable, and consistent.

TEXTUAL AIDS

These are educational instruments, and could be written texts, or printed texts and other ways of emphasizing the essential phrases, thoughts, graphs, and images.

TYPES OF TEXTUAL AIDS:

1. Highlighted words and phrases

   It made visibly different from the rest of the text. It is intended to draw the reader’s attention to them.

2. Italicized Words and Phrases

   A style of writing where the characters are slated upward to the right.

3. illustrations

   It is a decoration interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process.

4. Linear Text

   It focuses on the arrangement of the words both grammatically and stylistically.

5. Transitional devices/ Cohesive words

   Words or phrases that help carry a thought from one sentences to another.

6. Non-Linear Text

   Readers do not have to go through the text in a sequential manner in order to make sense of the text.

• Different kinds of charts and graphs

  1. Line Graph: Displays the information as a series of data points connected by the line segments.

  2. Bar Graph: Comparing for larger changes or differences in a data.

  3. Histogram: Similar to bar chart, but instead of comparing it represents how data is distributed.

  4. Pie Graph: shows the breakdown of items in a set of percentages.

  5. Pictograph: a picture or image that represents an idea.

  6. Venn Diagram: Visual depiction of similarities and differences between two or more different items.

  7. Graphic Organizer: Known as “Knowledge map”

  8. Table: An arrangement of data in rows and columns or possibly more complex structure.