Tuesday, February 8, 2011

How things work?

Every learning and teaching is done as part of an information seeking process which constructs meaning to the successful search to new knowledge.I was bit concerned about the learning process that happens  and how that modifies a student's knolwedge. SoI wanted to know more about information search process and different ISP models and  the search for information AND Search AND process lead me to extract details of Kuhlthau's ISP model and her observations on inquiry process. The ISP model illustrates "common experiences in the process of information seeking for a complex task that has a discrete beginning and ending and that requires considerable construction and learning to be accomplished"( Kuhlthau,2007).When I went through the observations of Kuhlthau, I found that the understanding of different stages described in her ISP model closely reated to the experiences I got through the learning process. So I think the knowledge about  different ISP models help the educator's to apply different pedagogical  approaches in the process of constructing knowledge."Students' experience within the process must be clearly understood in order for teachers and media specialists to design library assignments and plan instruction that encourage rather than impede learning."(AASL,1989) . I also found the nature of uncertainity in learnig process . ISP model stresses the idea that uncertainty is natural and essential for constructing knowledge in information seeking process.(Kuhlthau, 2004, p.  82).


Further searches led me to open up a world where I could clarify the process of information which described defining,locating,selecting,organising, presenting and assessing as steps of information search process. It also introduced me a lot of search engine websites such as "NoodleTooles" and  web2.0 tools.



My search process on information  seeking process ended up in finding valuable interpretation of the process.Based on the studies on Kuhlthau's work in Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library & Information Services, 2004,  Elizebeth Dolinger( 2010) created a webpage on ISP  which gave me a clear understanding about the ISP process which was demonstrated as below:










References

Kuhlthau,C.C,2007, Information Search Process

AASL, (1989), Information Search Process: A Summary of Research and Implications for School Library Media Programs

An information Search process -Research and support,(2010),  retrieved from http://sites.google.com/site/elizdolinger/information-search-process

 

 

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