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Q.What is training Literacy?A.ability to recognise the need to find, organise, evaluate and practise such information for effective decision-making or problem solving.Be aware that more or less information conveyed to you may be distorted. Be aware that you may ingest additional information before making a decision.Q.What is Information Technology Literacy?A.ability to recognise opportunities for and apply information technology resources to capture and manipulate entropy, convert data into information and present information.Q.Why do you need Information Literacy?A.to function in society, to understand the language and knowledge structures of particular fields of study, to be able to study in fields of interest, to be able to communicate.Q.Is there a relationship between data, information, and knowledge?A.Yes. A collection of basic data elements (facts, video, images, sound etc.) are transformed (manipulated) into information. By gathering information we can begin to gain kno wledge.Q.What are the three information types? (and give an example of each)A. unproblematic Information eyewitness account, creative work, discoverySecondary Information reports on events, history, theologiesTertiary Information indices, bibliographies, browsersQ.What are the Information Literacy skills identified in the lecture?A. travail Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, EvaluationQ.What are the 5 subdisciplines of Semiotics and what are their attributes?A.Statistics patterns, codes, traces, signalsSyntactics structure, data, records, language, logic, software, filesSemantics meaning, denotation, signification, proposition, validty, truthPragmatics intent, communication, conversation, negotiationSocial beliefs, expectations, commitments, contracts, law, cultureQ.What are headway maps useful for?A.Note taking, organising information in a logical structure, good for exam revisionQ.What is a metaphor? ExamplesA.s tatements based on some amiable of analogy where two things are compared to each other eg desk top metaphor, metaphorically speakingQ.What are the different types of metaphors?A.Illustrative, Iconic, Visual, VerbalQ.What is a clich?A.A phrase that conveys some sort of idea or message, a clich is, in other words a metaphor characterised by its over use.Q.The usefulness of information is determined by four main factors. What are these four main factors and exemplify.A.Information Quality fitness for purpose, authors credentials, revised edition, intended audience etc.Information Assessibility consistent, speed, availability, formatInformation Presentation writing style, organised logically, main points clearly presentedInformation Security Internet fire walls, Business passwords etcQ.What is Knowledge?A.A confederacy of rules, ideas, instincts and procedures that guide actions and decisions.Q.What are the different types of information retrieval outlined in the lecture?A.Text da tabase a set of documents stored and organised on a computer eg proformasHypertext documents interactive links to other parts of the current document eg autotable of contents in word.