All keywords from the AIM 101 textbook (from Chapter 1 to Chapter 3), summarized into one document to make it easier to learn for any AIM 101 assignment or test. The ease of access to the necessary words (all in one place) makes it more convenient and easier to successfully complete AIM 101.
Competencies: The skills and capabilities to do something successfully and properly.
Computer Literacy: The knowledge and skills to use computers and other
technologies successfully and efficiently.
Frameworks: Basic structures that underlie and motivate ideas and systems.
Information Literacy: The ability to know when information is needed, where to find
it and how to evaluate it. Ability to retrieve, analyse and use information.
Life-Long Learning: The on-going and self-directed search for knowledge. To be a
life-long learner you need to be information literate.
Media Literacy: The ability to use many different forms/types of media. Ability to
access, analyse, contribute to, assess, create, and take part in messages in many
formats.
CHAPTER 2: INFORMATION SOURCES AND RESOURCES
Bibliographical Database: Contains summary representations of documents including
title, abstract and keywords of a document. It will state who the author of a document
is and when and where the document was published. They do not contain full text of
documents.
Dictionary: A reference book in which spoken or written words are defined
Digital Library: Libraries where the collection of documents is not printed but is in
electronic format so that it can be accessed by a computer. (Also known as virtual
libraries, electronic libraries, and e-libraries).
Directory: List of names of people living in a particular area, organisations operating
in a particular field or individuals in a particular profession.
Document: A written account that provides information.
Encyclopaedia: Collections of knowledge in written format (but not always paper
based). There are general encyclopaedias that deal with many different topics and
there are subject-specific one too.
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