GEN: Net-Knowledge Skills

[AliceInfo <AliceInfo@AOL.COM>]

Friends:
thought you-all might be interested in the implications of this topic for our
own profession:
(note: the MASIE Center trains on-line trainers and staff developers for both
corporate and educational settings)
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The MASIE Center       http://www.masie.com   Elliott Masie, Editor
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Net-Knowledge Skills.  Some of our definitions of knowledge acquisition
may change as we enter the Digital Age.  How does one cope with the amazing
increase in the total quantity of available information?  How do we filter
the valuable from the trivial.  And, how do we coach our employees in the
process of learning in this new environment.

We have been toying with the concept of Net-Knowledge Skills.  Imagine a set
of skills that a person learns (in school or at work) that helps them with
the processing of knowledge.  A updated view of Learning How to Learn.  I
could imagine that some of these skills might include:

* The ability to ask for a high level view of information and being able to
quickly extract a valuation of the content, rather than a retention of the
content. I hear about a new drug for a rare disease.  I get the top 2 facts
and also know how important it is to me or my family.  And, I know where the
bookmark for the information is.
* The ability to search for information.  If I had to teach only one
internet skills, it would not be the downloading of files.  I'd focus on the
process of building successive searches for information.
* The ability to take referenced notes rather than digested notes. Note
taking is changing in the age of word processing and the internet.  What
will be the new models of note taking?  What is the next generation yellow
highlighter?
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 What do *WE* think will be the necessary knowledge acquisition and
retention skills of the future?
And what will OUR role be in the development and teaching of those skills?
Here's an opportunity to discuss School-to-Work needs and applications
for the next generation, esp. in light of the goals of the new AASL/AECT
*Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning*

Alice H. Yucht
Heritage Middle School Library
Livingston, NJ 07039
Aliceinfo@aol.com

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