Hello Jan,

Thanks, The Medlineplus web page reference you gave was exactly the  
kind of thing I was looking for and, as you pointed out, especially  
the flash presentation. I urge others who are interested in questions  
about web information searching and content judging to look at these  
learning resources. Does anyone else have learning resources to  
suggest that will help low-literate adults find and evaluate web site  
information?

David J. Rosen
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On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Jan Potter wrote:


> My students generally start here:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ 

> medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html especially with that  

> flash presentation.  Most of these are excellent, especially the  

> Medical Library one:  http://www.mlanet.org/resources/ 

> userguide.html and with its "top 10 list" at:  http:// 

> www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html

>

>

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM, David J. Rosen  

> <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello Joan and others,

>

> On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Joan Medlen wrote:

>

> > Can you clarify me where this might be taught? I think the target

> > audience

> > is what I'm after.

> > As a health care professional, I *do* think we need to help with #1

> > and 2.

> > I need to think about the rest.

>

> I was thinking about the contexts of the adult literacy or adult

> basic education (including ESOL) classroom or tutorial, or online or

> blended learning. I was also thinking about education for out-of-

> school youth. I wasn't particularly thinking about higher ed or K-12,

> or business (except for workplace basic skills programs).

>

> I was just now looking at professional development for businesspeople

> called "skill pills", 2-minute videos delivered to web-accessible

> PDAs  on how topics such as how organize and run meetings and how to

> deal with stress, so I also think some of these internet search

> skills could be taught for what I call PLAs (Personal Learning

> Assistants) , that is web-accessible handhelds like Ipod touch/Iphone

> and Blackberry. It's possible that the costs for these handhelds will

> come down and that this will be a major way, in a few years, that

> North Americans access the web.

>

> This is an important issue for health care education, I know,

> especially questions 1 and 3. There is a study in progress now at the

> Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute in Boston with low-literate

> adults on how they use the web to find and use health information.

> When completed, it should provide some insights. There may be other

> studies, too, that can shed some light on how literate adults can or

> could use the web effectively to find and judge information.

>

> Joan, or others, are you aware of "helpful hints" for adults who want

> to find and judge health information on the web?

>

> David J. Rosen

> djrosen at comcast.net

>

> >

> >

> > At 03:15 PM 9/2/2008, I wrote:

> >> Technology Colleagues,

> >>

> >> There have been many interesting responses to my post yesterday,  

> but

> >> so far no one has yet responded to my questions:

> >>

> >> 1) Should we be teaching how to find and judge information?

> >> 2) ...how to navigate efficiently and effectively?

> >>         a) Do some of our students already do this better than  

> we do?

> >>         b) Should we be learning navigation skills together with

> >> them?

> >> 3) Are there some helpful hints that we should be teaching for Web

> >> page navigation?

> >>         a) If so what are they?

> >> 4) Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic

> >> intelligences, or at least honoring them?

> >>

> >> I hope some of you have some answers, and some experience with

> >> teaching how to find/judge information online and how to navigate

> >> well. If so, can you share some helpful hints?

> >>

> >> David J. Rosen

> >> djrosen at comcast.net

> >>

> >> On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:01 PM, David J. Rosen wrote:

> >>

> >>> Technology colleagues,

> >>>

> >>> This article from South Africa's The Times, Newspapers have a

> >>> future if they start thinking,  has got me thinking. The author,

> >>> Ray Hartley, the paper's editor, quotes John Seely Brown, the  

> Chief

> >>> Scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown has

> >>> long be an innovative thinker. He says ""The typewriter prized one

> >>> particular kind of intelligence, but with the web, we suddenly  

> have

> >>> a medium that honours multiple forms of intelligence - abstract,

> >>> textual, visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic."

> >>>

> >>> He adds: "People my age tend to think that kids who are

> >>> multiprocessing can't be concentrating. That may not be true.

> >>> Indeed, one of the things we noticed is that the attention span of

> >>> the teens at PARC - often between 30 seconds and five minutes -

> >>> parallels that of top managers, who operate in a world of fast

> >>> context-switching. So the short attention spans of today's kids  

> may

> >>> turn out to be far from dysfunctional for future work worlds."

> >>>

> >>> Brown says: "The new literacy, beyond text and image, is one of

> >>> information navigation. The real literacy of tomorrow entails the

> >>> ability to be your own personal reference librarian - to know how

> >>> to navigate through confusing, complex information spaces and feel

> >>> comfortable doing so. 'Navigation' may well be the main form of

> >>> literacy for the 21st century."

> >>>

> >>> We know that "reading web pages" is different from reading hard

> >>> copy. Web pages often lots of images, increasingly audio and video

> >>> files, as well as text. They also have links to navigate to -- and

> >>> back from. Should we be teaching how to find and judge  

> information,

> >>> how to navigate efficiently and effectively? (Do some of our

> >>> students already do this better than we do?) Should we be learning

> >>> this together with them? Are there some helpful hints that we

> >>> should be teaching for Web page navigation? If so what are they?

> >>>

> >>> Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic

> >>> intelligences, or at least honoring them?

> >>>

> >>> You'll find the article at:

> >>> http://tinyurl.com/5jdmzh

> >>>

> >>> David J. Rosen

> >>> djrosen at comcast.net

> >>>

> >>>

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