Do you suffer from “infoglut”?

Free range chickens?  Yes! But free range students?

Have you ever walked up and down a long table of food at a Pot-Luck Dinner, to “graze” and “browse” before loading up your plate?  We can teach students how to use this same approach when sifting through vast amounts of information.

Read the following article to find out how the recent “information feast” compares to a Pot Luck Dinner:

Deep Reading and Deep Thinking in an Age of Info-Glut

I was intrigued by this term, “infoglut” which appeared on page 73 of our readings this week from Building Leaning Communities (Palloff and Pratt, 2007).  This article discusses the progression of learning from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.  Students are learning differently than in decades of the past.  This new type of learning will require independence and skill.  Teachers will need to redesign current lessons to help students sift through this massive amount of information.  The link above talks about how the access to “mountains of information threatens the deep thinking process” (Birkerts, 1994).

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