Theme 1: Expansion of the home office

Learn to handle information better

Topic 5

Chapter 6.1. Page 305 – 312

Working with information

We live in an information era

Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by all the information

Too much information?

• There is a strategy you can follow to– Make informed decisions– Eliminate all irrelevant data– Identify and use only the necessary

information

Step 1Define the task

Ask questions

1. What must I do (Why do I need information?)

2. What information do I need to complete the task?

DO NOT

• Include unnecessary information that has nothing to do with the task

Step 2Establish where information can be

found

• What sources of information exist?

• Which of those will be the best for this task?

BooksExisting sources

Radio & TV

Magazines

Internet

Sources

• Can you think of any more sources?

• In which ways can you gather information if you cannot find it in an existing source?

• Name examples of situations where information is not necessarily found in an existing source.

Step 3Find the sources and extract

information• Make photocopies of articles in books and

magazines

• Save web pages and/or make printouts

• Take notes whilst interviewing someone

• Take photographs, make a video recording

• Collect completed questionnaires

VERY important!

• Save all collected data– Copies of articles– Electronic copies of documents

• Keep track of your sources– Name of magazine, date of publication– Name of book, authors, ISBN– URL of web pages

• Backup– Store on CD or another computer’s hard drive

Step 4 Use (process) the information

It may include one or more of the following:• Make summaries, underline.• Write down answers to questions in step

1.• Decide what are the core concepts of the

information that you’ve underlined.• Draw a mind map to organise information.• Enter data of questionnaires in a

spreadsheet.

Step 5Presenting the information

• Make a poster

• Write a report (produce a document)

• Make a presentation

• Create a web page

Step 6Evaluate the process and the

product• Look at step 1 again – does the final

product satisfy the description of what you have to do?

• Have you answered all the questions that you have set in the beginning?

• Have you given recognition to all the sources you have used?What else do you think can one

add to such a checklist?

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Draw a mind map or flow chart to help the learners plan and finalise

their tasks in a better way by making use of this 6-step strategy.

Before you carry on . . .

• Ask a Grade 8 teacher what the type of tasks are that learners do.

• Choose one of these tasks that sounds interesting to you as a class – in the following section, you are going to apply the asking of the questions on that task.

Asking the right questions(More detail for step 1)

• The success of any type of task that you have to do, depends on how good the questions were how good the questions were that you asked.that you asked.

• Key questions = questions that describe the task– What must I organise ; How can I save the

company money?; What food should the tuck shop sell?

• There are different types of questions that you can ask . . . .

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Factual questions

• Can answers be found in books, on Internet or in people involved in project.

• Only one correct answer (facts).

• Answer sometimes yes/no.

• Can start with

What, who, when, how What, who, when, how many, where, name, many, where, name,

identify, define.identify, define.

Which factual questions can you ask that are applicable to the Gr 8-project that you have chosen?

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Investigative questions

• Make use of the answers to the factual questions.

• Determine similarities and differences between facts.

• Seek reasons for facts.

• Can begin with

Why; how; in which wayWhy; how; in which way

Which investigative questions can you ask that are applicable to the

Gr 8-project that you have chosen?

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Change questions

• Prove that you have thought about the information you collected.

• Try to ascertain how situations could have been different.

• Make predictions or draw conclusions.• Can begin with

Suppose, predict, if, how, how Suppose, predict, if, how, how would, what are the possible would, what are the possible

consequences of.consequences of.

Which change questions can you ask that are applicable to the Gr 8-project that you have chosen?

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Judgement questions

• Form and express your own opinion.

• What is your viewpoint on an issue

• Defend your opinion / verdict

• Can begin with

Defend, make a judgement, Defend, make a judgement, what do you think of . . , what do you think of . . , motivate, what are the motivate, what are the

advantages.advantages.

Which judgemental questions can you ask that are applicable to the

Gr 8-project that you have chosen?

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