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Personal anticipated information need

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Bates has described the inclination of individuals to carve out a subset of the information world in a personal information collection through the metaphor of farming ( Bates 2001 ). Research by Whittaker and Hirschberg ( 2001 ) that observed people during an office move illustrates this point.

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Towards a Theory of Digital Literacy: Three Scenarios for the Next Steps

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1997 ; Lanham, 1995; Pool, 1997 ), which is presented as a special kind of mindset that enables users to perform intuitively in digital environments, and to easily and effectively access the wide range of knowledge embedded in these environments ( Gilster, 1997 ; Tapscott, 1998 ; Eshet-Alkalai, 2004 ; 2005 ). Spiro et al.

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A Design Framework for Electronic Cognitive Apprenticeship

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Volume 5, Issue 2 - September 2001. functional context embedded with the learning skills and knowledge. with alternative or counter scenarios, cases with expert commentaries, cases with purposefully embedded flaws, and cases that build or become. patterns and learning paths that indicate what actions have been performed.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

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It is a common pattern, recognized in evolutionary biology, that a feature adapted for one purpose in a species is used for another purpose when the environment puts different demands on the species. Patterns of information seeking in the humanities. The MIT Press, 2001. New York: Pergamon Press, 1979. WIBERLEY, S. MCCREADIE, M.,

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