Information Handling SkillsIntermediate 2

Thinking

Thinking

What is thinking? When you tell someone you are thinking, what kind of things might actually be going on in your head? For instance, you might be making a mental picture of things, or you might be comparing one thing with another. What other thing might be going on in your head when you are thinking? Make a map of your ideas.

Figure 1: Female, Grade 5 student’s concept map of thinking

Figure 2: Male, Grade 9 students’ concept map of thinking

Vocabulary for Thinking• Classifying• Comparing• Defining• Estimating• Generalising• Interpreting data• Justifying opinions• Measuring• Ordering chronologically• Predicting• Rank ordering• Testing hypotheses

• Contrasting• Describing• Evaluating• Formulating hypotheses• Inferring• Judging• Labelling• Noting a process• Ordering spatially• Problem Solving• Recommending

Understanding and applying cause and effect

Understanding and applying rules and strategies

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1. Information Handling

2. The Information Task

Sources of Information

3. The Paper Information Source

4. Books

5. Newspapers and Journals

6. Dictionaries

7. Encyclopaedias

8. Atlases and Maps

Sources of Information (contd)

9. The People Information Source

10.The Electronic Information Source

11. Internet and WWW

12.Search Engines, Directories and Portals

13.Discussion Groups and Lists

14.Choosing the Keywords

Searching

15.How to Search Paper Sources

16.Alphabetisation

17. Indexes

18.How to Search People Sources

Searching (contd)

19.How to Search Electronic Sources

20.Combining Keywords for Electronic Information Sources

21.URL's the Web Address System

Websites

• Check Your Sources

• Identify Issues Sources

• http://www.malepregnancy.com/

• http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

• http://www.dhmo.org/

• http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html

Evaluating

22. The Need for Evaluation of Information

23. Choosing Evaluation Criteria

24. Evaluating Suitability

25. Evaluating Currency

26. Evaluating Reliability

27. IPR, Copyright and Plagiarism

28. Referencing your Sources

29. Reviewing the Whole Process

Action Plan

30.Creating the Action Plan WHY are you doing the task? • WHAT is required of you? • HOW are you going to do the task? • WHICH resources do you require for the task? • WHO can help you? • WHERE are you going to do the task? • WHEN are you going to do the task?

Action Plan template