michaelzimmer: New hires need to be able to dig deeper than the...

16:56 18th Oct 2012

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Tags: information literacy information knowledge

New hires need to be able to dig deeper than the first page or two of Google results, need to tap into human information sources, and need to share the search process with colleagues, who often can help refine and direct the process of searching and winnowing. Students, in turn, feel that skills they learned in college are absolutely critical to their work life, but are thrown by tight deadlines, lack of specific guidelines, and the sheer ambiguity of looking for information when the answer isn’t already known and published somewhere. One lesson from all this is that students need to learn that information isn’t something that exists out there. Information is social, and so is the process of creating knowledge.

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Thrown a Curve: Our Anti-Social Graduates at Work | Peer to Peer Review by Barbara Fister (via libraryjournal)

One lesson from all this is that students need to learn that information isn’t something that exists out there. Information is social, and so is the process of creating knowledge.

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THIS.