Information Literacy Skills are skills people retreive as a lifelong experience which finally lead mankind forward with the experiences made, the lectures received and the knowledge obtained.
Source: personal definition
Source1 (internet):
http://www.uas.alaska.edu/library/services/instruction-info/info-lit-handbook.html
"Definition of Information LiteracyAn individual who is information literate is able to:
- Determine the extent of information needed
- Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
- Evaluate information and its sources critically
- Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base
- Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
- Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally (1)
Information literacy is, therefore, being able to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (1). Computer literacy involves gaining familiarity with hardware, software applications, and databases as well as an understanding of how technology works. Developing computer literacy is necessary in order to become information literate, as information technology has become an integral part of obtaining access to information and managing it. However, learning critical thinking skills - comprehension, analysis, application, synthesis, and evaluation - is what distinguishes information literacy from the "fluency with technology" that comes with computer literacy."
Source 2 (internet):
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=170
Definition Information Literacy:
- Accessing information efficiently and effectively
- Evaluating information critically and competently
- Using information accurately and creatively
2.) What is SQRW?
SQRW is an abbreviation of the four main steps of a specialized and simplified strategy on how to read textbooks and taking notes efficiently. The steps are as followed:
S = SURVEY
This step is the preview of a chapter and topic we want to know more about. At this first step we preview an article or subject before getting into the details. This preview is done by skimming and scanning the subject's contents, attached graphs or pictures as well as titles, headlines and summaries in order to get the first insight and the picture what the text is about.
Q = QUESTION
The second step consists of questions we should have in our mind, which actually form the purpose of our reading. Those questions also maintain our interest as we are trying to find the answers for our questions within the article. Use basic questions such as "who, what, when, where, why or how to form your questions.
R = READ
This step is finally reading the article and finding the answers for the questions we defined during the second step. This step might force us to adapt our questions to the contents as we move along with the reading. Even new questions may arise.
W = WRITE
This step is the part of "preserving the information obtained". It means that here we do take the notes into our notebook in order to collect the gathered information and to refer to it later. Taking notes includes writing down the most important and relevant information only.
Source: personal definition
Source 1 (internet):
http://studyskills6.wikispaces.com/SQRW
SQRW is a strategy for talking notes and reading. SQRW stands for:
- Survey
Survey is when you just look through a sheet of paper or a book quickly and find the main ideas of
what it is all about. Read the title, summary, conclusion to get a better under standing of what it is about.
- Question
Always keep a question in mind it will help you to understand more about the thing that you are reading from for example if the title of a story is "Ways to hurt someone badly" use the words who, what, when, where, what to understand more.
- Read
Read the information on each heading to answer every questioned you asked yourself. While you are doing this activity you may need to change a question for it to be answered.
- Write
Write the answers and the questions into a notebook reread it to make sure that it is contains all the important things.
3.) Use the Big 6 Skills (Step 1-6) of the topic you know best.
- Step 1: Define the Problem, Information Requirement:
My topic is the drawing using a simple pencil and plain paper.
I did chose this topic because I used to draw as a hobby and really enjoyed doing it when I had some freetime in the Past. I am a rather realistic drawer and prefer to draw real things or places out of my own imagination - not in the way of visiting a place and copy what I see with my eyes.
Drawing can be the expression of imagination and creativity through an external mode such as the pencil and the paper, used to draw.
It can be just a hobby, a profession or the step to e.g. professional architecture.
- Step 2: Information Seeking Strategies:
Keywords for Drawing:
"How to draw" offers some websites on basic drawing exercises.
"Professional drawing" offers some advanced drawing examples.
"Drawing" offers a rather general result of drawing related websites.
"Learn to draw" offers a variety of tutorial websites with samples, exercises and hints.
- Step 3: Location and Access:
http://www.howtodrawit.com/
http://www.learn-to-draw.com/
http://www.drawingcoach.com/
http://www.drawingprofessor.com/
- Step 4: Use of Information:
The information gathered from those websites mentioned above might be helpful for people who want to learn how to draw the figures, given as samples on those websites. They partially help out with step-by-step instructions and illustrations which the interested user can follow or rather "copy" easily.
- Step 5: Synthesis: Putting it all together:
The following subtopics, in my opinion, are important to think and care about when it comes to drawing:
- Perspectives:
The way of drawing things and places with correct 3D perspectives and the right angles in order to make the drawing look as real as possible.
- Shadows:
The way of shadowing objects or places in the right way to reflect 3D effects and to show the correct lighting within the drawing.
- Creativity:
The proper drawing definitely needs creativity in order to create the picture. This might be less required in case we just copy a drawing, but even for professional copying a level of creativity is necessary as the drawing and the proper interpretion of the original is necessary to reflect it on the paper.
- Inspiration:
Inspiration is a vital thing when it comes to own creations coming from imagination. One might get some inspiration either from own ideas or from external sources such as things we saw, ideas or any other modern source.
- How to do...
I think that the "How to do..." section is a very important section which differs in questions foreach individual. And actually this is where the proper skill actually takes place, which, in my opinion, is the most important and most vital factor of proper and professional drawing. Hence this sector is the very big sector, where many questions may arise.
- Step 6: Evaluation:
At first I would like to say that I personally think that the drawing skill is the most vital part a person should possess, when it comes to drawing. As well as the imagination and the creativity skill. A person should be able to see the object or place he / she wants to draw in his / her mind in advance already and should be able to move this place and object in every angle possible only in his / her imagination already. Then it comes to the proper lighting as well, to illustrate the right shadows at the right place. And of course a person should be able to have the raw outline of the whole picture, the idea or meaning of the drawing in mind. Additional creations may develop while actually drawing the picture.
The website "learn-to-draw.com" is a nice website which offers an easy user interface and a proper menu to browse the website. It contains basics on drawing and some lectures on drawing people and caricatures.
For me, as a person with given drawing skills, those sites are very "limited", because the learners are rather forced to copy the samples only, where the drawing turns into a simple try to follow the steps mentioned as best as possible. But isn't that the way people learn as well? So I don't see anything wrong with it and for everyone who isn't lucky to possess a natural skill in drawing, these websites can help to practice and understand drawing.
For me in person these websites would be fine for a background reading or for collecting some ideas as well as to see how others do the drawing. But for my drawing itself, I prefer to let my mind be the creator and just to create my own ideas, using my free and own imagination and creating a very personal piece of work.
The website howtodrawit.com is easy to navigate as well, but is a good example on the limits of teaching drawing, because the website also possesses only specific samples such as "How to draw a parrot" and some other subjects or objects. It's a nice introduction and easy to follow. Therefore a successful way of teaching people in drawing as I am very certain that every person can follow the steps and instructions with ease.
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