Scenario


This module is built around a scenario to assist people to understand and move through the learning objectives. The scenario is as follows:

Tiff is doing a project on sustainability. She is looking for resources about social, economic and environmental sustainability. Since Tiff can access the Internet she has access to a very large range of information including books, software, audio and video and opportunities to meet and communicate with experts and other people working on sustainability.

A spiral of knowledge

As Tiff moves through her project consider the following three steps in her process:
  1. access
  2. interpret and
  3. create
Access, interpret and create are applied here as processes in a spiralling relationship. Consider Tiff as she approaches her project. First she will need:
  1. Access to a computer, then to the Internet, then to the information she is looking for.
  2. Along the way she will need to interpret what she finds and make decisions on what next to try and access. To assist with this she may use a weblog to create notes on what she finds. She may use images, audio and video in her notes.
  3. By doing so she will create new versions of information that may be useful to another person who happens to have a project on sustainability. Tiff may find herself using the Internet and the information she finds to communicate with other people. These people may have other information that Tiff has not yet found.
By working together they will be able to access, interpret and create a wider range of information, often at a faster rate, and assist each other with their work. In all of these instances there is a spiral of access, interpretation and creation of information.

Let's join Tiff now as she prepares to access a computer and connect to the Internet.