Hello, seminar participants,I'm feeling my age (or at least using my favorite excuse for laggerdliness--I do like to invent words, by the way): Anyway, give me enough time and I'll get around to it; remind me often enough and I'll remember. This is a wordy preamble to my response to question 2, and I'm realizing that I may, in fact be a good example of my response. Warlick posits reading is insufficient to constitute literacy these days, and I think he's right, if I start with the assumption that reading is a primary strategy for gathering information. As we discussed on 2-13, "recognizing, locating, and evaluating" data construct the tasks of "information literacy," then the job seems enormous, given the scope of information available through technology. "Remembering" and "finding time" take on significance in the process of problem solving and research that "reading" never did a quarter century ago. For example, I hope I've located the "right question" for this response, since my memory for my simple reading of it wobbled in the course of changing screens. Old age or information illiteracy? You be the judge. Sandy
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Hello, seminar participants,I'm feeling my age (or at least using my favorite excuse for laggerdliness--I do like to invent words, by the way): Anyway, give me enough time and I'll get around to it; remind me often enough and I'll remember. This is a wordy preamble to my response to question 2, and I'm realizing that I may, in fact be a good example of my response. Warlick posits reading is insufficient to constitute literacy these days, and I think he's right, if I start with the assumption that reading is a primary strategy for gathering information. As we discussed on 2-13, "recognizing, locating, and evaluating" data construct the tasks of "information literacy," then the job seems enormous, given the scope of information available through technology. "Remembering" and "finding time" take on significance in the process of problem solving and research that "reading" never did a quarter century ago. For example, I hope I've located the "right question" for this response, since my memory for my simple reading of it wobbled in the course of changing screens. Old age or information illiteracy? You be the judge. Sandy
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