Jon Rose Information response

What have you learned in your CAS class that is useful in the Information facet of IST? What have you learned in the Information facet that is useful in group communication?

Though the two classes are very different in the subject matter that they are teaching, they are similiar in many ways. In both classes we work in groups to do small assignments towards a final goal of a larger projects.
Accumilating relevant information and raw data and applying that to a more effective presentation for alcohol is the greatest tool that I picked up from the information facet. In terms of group communication, interacting with my group members by using hard facts and information helps to defend my argument or whatever contribution I'm making for the group. Nothing is credible unless your stance is backed up with data, and that's the main piece of knowledge I have retained from the Information facet. Using the P-MOPS learned from the CAS readings to solve your every day problem using all the raw information at your fingertips makes for solving any problem thrown at us completely feasable.

What examples from your group's interaction are relevant to a Information perspective?

Most of the work we completed in CAS 100B use tools learned from the Information perspective. Looking at a question and then breaking it down into what type of data it falls into leads us to the respective answer, which is then transferred to a good grade on an assignment. Our group communicates through a multitude of relatively new technological devices including cell phones, e-mail, and during the Information class itself. Using information retrieved from online sources and the assigned readings is all relevant to the information perspective of finding information, and then applying it constructively. Whenever we worked to complete in-class tasks, we always started of by brainstorming ideas of information which was then disected into something that can actually be applicable to figuring out our work, which wouldn't have been a possibility without the aid of "Visible and Relevant: a Paid Inclusion Case Study." by Zachary Rodgers.

How do you think what you have learned in the Information facet will affect your future career?

Much of what I learned in the Information Facet of IST 110 will be valuable to me not just for IST related classes or work but for education in general as it provides good background knowledge on basic information systems and obtaining information to complete any project I ever have in my life. Any future career in the field of IST I take up will have a direct reference to information, and disecting the information using the formula I learned in the facet of IST. Learning to work together within my group in order to organize our information as effectively as possible will remain with me forever. Knowing that information is everchanging and what we make of it makes history, all I have to do is to remember "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush and realize that human knowledge has been available to us as much as ever, what we make of it will make history: just like Bush's prediction of the Memex.
Rodgers, Zachary. "Visible and Relevant: a Paid Inclusion Case Study." ClickZ. 19 July 2004. Incisive Interactive Marketing. 28 Nov. 2006 <https://cms.psu.edu/section/default.asp?WCU=CRSCNT&id=200607FAUP+++RIST++110+001>.

Spence, Larry. "Problem Solving." IST Learning Initiatives. 2006. Penn State University. 14 Sept. 2006 <http://pbl.ist.psu.edu/pbl/section-2.php>.

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