Infowhelm@

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

Infowhelm

In 2015?In 2015 (If with the same increase of

10,000% in 6 years) makes 50,0000 exabytes

or 1,300 x distance between the Earth and

Pluto!!! [it's probably at least triple that!]

2015

*Digital output = 500,000 Exabytes

= books stacked 1,300 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