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We live in the age of Infowhelm

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We live in the

age of Infowhelm

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Our Digital Output

In 2003 all the information online added up to 5 Exabytes (or 5,000,000,000 Gigabytes)

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Our Digital Output

In 2009all 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

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2009

Digital output = 500

Exabytes

= books stacked 13 x

from the Earth to

Pluto

An increase of 10,00% in

6 years

Infowhelm

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

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

or

1,300 x distance between the Earth and Pluto!!!

[it's probably at least triple that!]

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2015

*Digital output = 50,000

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

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Having access to so much

information

changes the skills

students need to learn.

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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

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These are the Information

Literacy skills we will be

learning in these lessons

this year