Apresentação realizada no âmbito do projeto DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP. Este projeto envolveu alunos de duas turmas de 10º ano, os quais, em conjunto, organizaram uma palestra dirigida a alunos de 9º ano onde apresentaram o resultado do seu trabalho.
2. WHAT IS INFORMATION
OVERLOAD?
Information overload refers to the difficulty a person can have to
understand an issue and to make decisions that can be caused by the
presence of too much information.
“Information overload occurs when the amount of input to the
system exceeds its processing capacity.”- “The Managing of
Organizations”, of Bertram Gross (1964).
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4. A rapidly increase of new
information being produced
also know as journalism.
The ease of
duplication
and
transmission
of data across
the Internet.
Consumers
become
producers.
Causes of
Causes of
information
information
overload
overload
A lack of
method for
comparing
and
processing
different
kinds of
information.
An increase in the
available channels
of incoming
information (RSS,
instant messaging,
e-mail).
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5. IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD
KILLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY?
* Linsday Broder published on FOXBusiness: “According to a
LexisNexis International Workplace Productivity Survey , “a majority of
workers in every market (62%, on average) admit that the quality of their
work suffers at times because they can’t sort through the information they
need fast enough.” ”
* She also say: “prioritize your information into three categories: must know,
should know and nice to know.”
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10. SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Wildcard
If
Searches
you want both
Woman
Women
Try
If
Wom*n
you want to search for
language literacy acquisition
language vocabulary acquisition
language lexical acquisition
language phonologically acquisition etc. simultaneously;
Search
as
Language*acquisition
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11. SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Field
title,
Searching
author, subject, keyword, all fields, etc.
Setting
Limits
language,
date, region, file format
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