Relativity

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Amount of information

Constructively dealing with diversity means dealing with a variety of people. This means: Increasingly it is also about handling quantities. This includes the amount of information.

People drown in information and at the same time thrive for knowledge. A study from the University of Berkeley showed that each person on the planet has on average produced 800 megabytes of data per year. In printed form this is ten meters of shelves with books. From 1999 to 2002, the quantity of stored information worldwide has grown annually by 30 percent. And the quantity of information and the availability increased exponentially. In the last decade as much information was produced as in the previous 2,500 years. In five years this knowledge stock will have doubled again.

This means: The global information channels are wide open. There are never ending floods of data that penetrate into the remotest corners of the world. To cope with this is as easy as drinking water from a fully opened fire hose. The school must enable students to tame this white water of information. What we need is an effective way to handle information.

Relative importance

text from ‘Sustainable learning’ to follow

Sources, resources, links

http://www.rhetorik.ch/Information/Information.html
http://www.swissict.ch/fileadmin/FGIM/Informationsflut_versus_Informationsqualitaet.pdf
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Informationsflut-nimmt-dramatisch-zu--/meldung/41516
http://arbeitsblaetter.stangl-taller.at/KOMMUNIKATION/Informationsflut.shtml
http://www.swr.de/odysso/-/id=1046894/nid=1046894/did=3088304/pgn6gj/index.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information
http://www.madeasy.de/2/bedeut.htm