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Editor's Notes

• #2: so to start things off I’d like this to be more of a conversation and less of a presentation - talk to me, ask questions, challenge facts to get anywhere we need to know two things where we are and where we want to be let’s take a closer look at both of those things
• #6: first let’s talk about where we are- what’s our world like right now? changing, fast, chocked full of data (good and bad) schools based on information but information has changed
• #8: 2 things that no one can argue 1. info is being published in greater amounts and with greater speed 2. info is subject to less and less vetting and less barriers before being viewable by the world there is lots of good and bad with each of these ideas
• #9: Library of Congress 32 Million Books 650 Miles of Bookshelves that’s enough bookshelves to get us from Atlanta to Chicago think of the LOC as a cup- how many times can it be filled up with just the new info created in 2002? 1 10 100 1000 10000
• #10: 5 exabytes of new information is our best estimate of new data created way back in 2002 exabyte is = to That’d be 24,050,000 miles of shelves - put us pretty close to VENUS or 1,184,000,000,000 books http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm
• #11: how much of this new information is in paper format? guess some percentages . . . paper stores .01% of new information (and that was in 2002) think about that all the books, newspapers, magazines = .01 % of the total http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary
• #12: for those who don’t recognize it - this is a hard drive platter that holds all the data on your computer and this type of media holds 92% of new data created in 2002 (last year we’ve got a reliable study) -what % do you think our current system focuses on paper info lit vs electronic? how does this change what we should be teaching? http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#summary
• #13: 281 exabytes as opposed to 5 exabytes in 2002
• #16: part of what's led to this huge increase in information production is the facility with which anyone can publish to a worldwide audience think about it I can publish anything right now from as complex as video to as simple and inane as 140 characters of text and I can do it for free
• #18: you’ve got strange things being published P. Hilton w/ over a million followers posts this and then had to ask his followers to stop calling the besieged police station -SILLY but powerful, this stuff causes results http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/celeb-blogger-perez-hilton-assaulted-by-artist-william-he-tweets/
• #19: x-ray image and data on exposure to information each day read 10 MB hear 400 MBs see 1MB a second a simple conversation takes up 60 bits per second and we only have a total processing power of 110 bits per second ------now that we know we're overwhelmed by information - let's take a look at what the information is
• #20: especially when that information is coming to you live in ways that were impossible before
• #25: and there were plenty of scary things going on as well
• #26: love it or hate it - wikipedia gets 1 out of every 200 page views on the Internet (2007) might seem small until you think how many page views total there are (find total daily page views) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?ei=5090&en=cc8b71c715fcac74&ex=1340942400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
• #27: before we get started I have a political message for you . . . what do you think about that stat? powerful? motivating? true?
• #28: so this is a stat quoted in numerous academic papers in 1995 so even if we start with only 1 child being killed in 1950 by 1970 . . . . and oddly it’s basically a misquote a stat that said that since 54 children killed by guns had doubled (in 95) which makes sense since the population had more than doubled These "powerful" messages have become more common because more and more people are
• #29: those three factors lead to things like this graph you even see the news not outright lying but certainly distorting the stats . . . so if that selection = 100,000 what would you expect the top number to be? telling the truth while lying
• #30: it’s interesting to look at the two in comparison- which one seems a better news item?
• #31: thats information in the wild but what about more traditional, tame information sources - we can still rely on them right? then there’s intentional misinformation Iran missile launch why have three missiles when you can have four? impact on world opinion? foreign policy? different levels of sophistication http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/
• #33: which one is more trustworthy? which one is more about entertainment? the line between news and entertainment is getting more and more blurry
• #34: then we have just massive amounts of pure data, w/ no guidance
• #35: and by we I mean everyone- students, teachers, administrators, parents
• #36: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #37: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #38: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #39: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #40: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #41: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #42: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #43: and think of how you’re making information- even when you're not intentionally publishing email, camera, phone etc. and it’s easier and easier think of all that a sea of data with gems and junk so how do you find the 1 thing you’re looking for?
• #44: 235 million google searches per day - July 2008 http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/04/google-tenth-anniversary-tech-enterprise-cx_wt_0905google.html 20% to 25% of google’s searches each day are new searches http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/649325804/ 75% of people enter websites directly skipping the home page based on search results http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm goes back to this new theory of media consumption - was push- now it’s pull
• #50: In order to have this discussion it’s essential to first explain how and why we decided on our current path. There are two main factors driving the need for a revised model of literacy: the radically and continuously increasing volume, speed and complexity of information being created and the increased need for individuals to interact with this information on a daily basis- to find relevant information from a variety of increasingly complex sources, organize and evaluate that information and then use it in the most effective manner possible- that’s everything from making everyday life decisions to creating multimedia productions that will influence the world.