Our learning is influenced and guided by our own information seeking behavior . We are taught (or conditioned) how to seek information in school, from our families, in our churches or other community groups. In an article entitled “Purls of Wisdom” in the Journal of documentation (Prigoda yr.2007 vol.63 iss.1 pg.90), Elena Prigoda speaks of how LIS researchers are beginning to look at information behavior After  publicly declaring my angst over filters being put in place in the CCK08 class, Stephen Downes pretty much spelled out the rules for engagement in the Daily today when he said: “It is not simply about saying you agree or disagree with the authors and leaving it at that.

In a world of information abundance, knowledge workers and learning professionals need to be able to scan, both through the discerning use of aggregating technologies and their own ability to quickly read, and estimate the quality and value of the information passing by them in this “river.” The five minute questions would be to ask 1) What are your daily information scanning practices? It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented:

We need a new pedagogy, problem-focused on things kids are interested in, as Harold suggests, and focusing on their information seeking and experimentation and evaluation and the self-learning skills, not on rote exercise of skills.  What you do is look up information, make job aids (why are stickies so ubiquitous?), Harold Jarche (@hjarche) retweeted his prior post on “ First, we kill the curriculum “, and generated some serious interest.  For instance, Mark Oehlert (@moehlert) was inspired to write “ Harold Jarche is Wicked Smart and We Need to Talk about

So, what does this have to do with Information stewards and imposters? don’t care for the mascot, because the drama the University creates around it sets my alma mater up to be an information imposter. The definition of an information imposter (from my notes from Elfreda Chatman ): I’m writing this as I’m watching the first FSU game of the season. FSU vs.

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Tony asked for specific experiences on how to find the information you need, when you need it. You have to start first with the known areas of information seeking for a particular topic. first called the help line, but they couldn’t fill my need for information. The Learning Circuit Blog’s Big Question for November is all about Network Feedback, specifically if you need input from people, where’s the best place to ask? He posed the following questions:

Michelle asks this question: "In talking with various experts in the worlds of Information Literacy, Information Seeking, Personal Information Management (PIM), Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Personal Learning and others, it seemed that there's a fairly consistent opinion that once you drill down with most knowledge workers, there's a gap between how they do their work today and how they might be able to do their work if they took advantage of new(ish) methods, tools, information/expertise sources, collaboration techniques, etc." I have been reviewing the blog discussions on Work Literacy Gap and Frameworks between Harold Jarche , Tony Karrer and Michelle Martin's .

undergraduate degree is Information Studies, so I have a bit of training in thinking about how information flows, and how to use technology to enable information seeking behavior between groups.  The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give to someone new to the field (of E-Learning).

Distributed cognition views a system as a set of representations, and models the interchange of information between these representations. Maybe some of it goes back to information-seeking behavior. How do new workers learn the old language so they can have words to do a search for information? This blog post is courtesy @quinnovator and his latest post on Distributed Thinking and Learning . So if you are one of my school team mates, sorry but I had to get this out of my head before editing any more of our papers.

My undergrad degree is in Information Studies, and learning how to refine my information seeking skills has continued to open doors for me. If you are willing to give up 2 days of your time a month and all of your private information to get that help, then you are in dire straights. Today is Blog Action Day , and the topic is fighting poverty. One of my colleagues at EMC has already posted his Blog Action post (go see Steve Todd’s post).