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KM vs. Information Literacy
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 17:00 UTC (other timezones)
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We are surrounded by a growing ocean of information in all formats. Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.
Target groups (your colleagues) need to have a certain degree of information literacy to make effective use of the arsenal of knowledge management techniques, processes and technology. To what extend is the development of this competency the responsibility of the knowledge manager? En what are simple techniques to teach and share that can enhance a person's information literacy? And what would you share? That is what we'll chat about.
12-1 pm USA ET
Agenda
- Do you have a strategy in your organization to specifically develop (aspects of) the information literacy of your staff/colleagues?
- Should this be a task for knowledge management, or should it be left to HR?
- What would you specifically teach a typical person working at your organization when it comes to information literacy (the key take aways you'd want them to remember) and how would you do it?
- What could be the dangers of not focusing on information literacy?
- Is focussing on information literacy in this age of information necessary? Since everybody has a Facebook account and uses Google already to find relevant information. Or more important than ever?
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It is a matter of learning process initiated with Information transfer and then Learning transfer taken place further. In brief, it is the process from the state of “well informed” toward “knowledgeable” behavior. Regarding learning strategies, we should consider three types of Learning : Human (Individual) Learning, Organizational Learning and Machine (IT) Learning as well. ( Take a visit to our Knowledge Base http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/learning )
Yes, to a broad meaning it is the domain of KM on the base of our (Mobee Knowledge – http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com ) two postulates.
First, our concept suggesting the paradigm that Knowledge Management basically is not management technique but behaving as an access mechanisms that can be used across any management tool type covering so many management tools such as Total Quality Management, Learning Organization, Benchmarking, Process Classification Framework, Business Process Reengineering, Balanced Scorecard, Business Intelligence, IT Tools including Social Media platforms or Social Computing etc. wherein each with their specific functions to be orchestrated under KM’s consciousness. Here we put KM in incredibly broad meaning as subject with higher level than any other management tool type which is treated only as object ( Visit :http://www.scribd.com/doc/28696847/How-to-re-postulating-the-paradi... ) From eastern concept, Knowledge with broad meaning also known as Noor or “Light”.
Second, by using Mobee Knowledge’s DI – KW Model (http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/di-kwmodel ), the nature of Knowledge totally different with Data or Information. In the process of Knowledge formation, Knowledge evolved as emergent behavior within human body as complex system, having consciousness and free will (mind and value) as well as behaving dynamically as subject. Here, Data and Information still an object, passive, static, exist outside human body and having no consciousness. Tacit Knowledge is truly pure Knowledge. Explicit Knowledge is just a codified description of an Organizational Tacit Knowledge. ( http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/forum/topics/we-are-the-knowledge-hy... and http://delicious.com/mobeeknowledge/knowledge )
We at Mobee Knowledge specifically teach a typical person working at our organization when it comes to information literacy through Process Classification Framework (PCF) – American Productivity & Quality Control (APQC) orientation on the consideration that PCF – APQC is sources of better benchmarking, standardization and measurement, and governance and accountability to achieving process of literacy on information among our people in our organization
The dangers of not focusing on information literacy is making constraints in the process from “well informed” toward “knowledgeable” among our people
Yes focusing on information literacy is necessary especially in the process of making knowledge workers. Social Media as Social Learning tools not only provided by FB and/or Google, there are so many other Learning (Social) Strategy tools available for the sake of “Know-Where Learning” instead of “Know-How” and “Know-What” learning in the era of 2.0