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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.
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INFORMATION OVERLOAD AND SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Teacher: Luísa Lima
Subject: English
2014
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WHAT IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD?
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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).
ORIGIN OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD
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A rapidly increase of new information being produced also know as journalism.
The ease of duplication and transmission of data across the Internet.
Causes of information
overload
Causes of information
overload
An increase in the available channels of incoming information (RSS, instant messaging, e-mail).
A lack of method for comparing and processing different kinds of information.
Consumers become producers.
IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD KILLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY?
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* 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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EFFECTIVE ONLINE SEARCH TECHNIQUES Phrase searching
Truncation
Wildcard
Field searching
Setting Limits
Boolean 7
SEARCH TECHNIQUES Phrase Searching
Instead of American English
Try “American English” or (American English)
Truncation Instead of
machine
Try machin? for machine, machinery, machinist 8
SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Instead of industry
Try
stem industr*
industry
industries
industrial
industrialization 9
SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Wildcard Searches If you want both
Woman Women
Try Wom*n
If 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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SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Field Searching title, author, subject, keyword, all fields, etc.
Setting Limits language, date, region, file format
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Boolean searching
“phonetics” OR “phonology”
“phonetics” AND “phonology”
“phonetics” NOT “phonology” 12
13Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCBT0lfH-o
WEBGRAPHY
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload• http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/09/25/is-information-overload-killing-your-productivity/ • http://truthpouredout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/0511-1009-1319-0462_Black_and_White_Cartoon_of_a_Stressed_Out_Guy_with_the_Word_Overload_clipart_image_1.jpg• http://allantyoung.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/informationoverloadcartoon.jpg• http://www.toonpool.com/user/250/files/spam_19825.jpg• http://www.internetsegura.pt/files/thumb/103/300• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jwn-6NxywDU/TG3Ya_alpMI/AAAAAAAABag/MUgP5P9hZS4/s400/motores-de-busca.jpg• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sFs0m_qF6q8/T89W20uvPlI/AAAAAAAAADA/HSy0srnd6Zg/s1600/MOTORES.gif• http://rtiweb.net/images/solucoes/motores%20de%20busca.jpg• http://www-beta.statcounter.com/images/screenshots/search-engines.png