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Overview of Information - Coggle Diagram
Overview of Information
Importance of Knowledge to Organization
Tacit Knowledge
Unwritten, unspoken, and hidden knowledge held by human being, based on his or her emotion, experiences, insights, intuition, observations and internalized information
Explicit Knowledge
Articulated knowledge, expressed and recorded as words, numbers, codes, mathematical and scientific formulae, and musical notations
Information Literacy
A Strategy for Using Literacy Skills
Considered to be personal, organizational and national resource of great value
Information often described as a commodity, which can be sold, exchanged, accumulated and stored, patented and owned and not depleted when it used
It will be most valuable when it is quickly and easily available and effectively organized
Impact of Information Literacy
Incorporated selected information into their knowledge base
Use information effectively to learn, create new knowledge, solve problems and make decisions
Create opportunities for deep, meaningful learning throughout the students undergraduate education
Three Steps of Information Literacy Skills
Able to find information in variety formats
Able to find information in variety of sources
Able to find information within the sources
Characteristics of Information Literate Person
Identify and determine the needs of information
Locate and retrieve sources of information
Understand the structure of information
Good and Poor Information
Bad Information
Not all there- Incomplete information and fail to provide a clear sense of the entirety of the problem
Irrelevant- Information is considered having a little value when it is too old or out of date and not meets the user requirement
Swamping- Too voluminous to allow sense to be made of it where the quality of information is much important compare to quantity
Unclear- Not well presented in a way it facilitate a decision
Good Information
Concise- Must be understandable to those who use it, and must be able to absorbed quickly action
Relevant- Information must meet the user's proposes and needed
Accurate and complete- Must be accessible, with emphasis on the right information however it depends on the context itself
Timely- Information must be available when needed, within the timeframe desired by the user
Reduces uncertainty- Information must meet the user's requirement completely in order to reduce the unknown entity.