Professor Gibbons presentation on information literacy showed that there are many different information sources available online. However he did not touch on the conversion of information into knowledge, even though he had mentioned the process at the beginning of his presentation. As I had mentioned when commenting on Irene Clarke’s essay, we have a great opportunity to engage in the information-to-knowledge process and we do that by turning our reading experience on its head. No longer is the text our only text, but with a click, information flows from various channels, and the linear path of reading begins to branch out and connect with the incoming information, which is contextualized by the primary text and becomes more than a data with no connective tissue, but rather data connected to a larger system; data transformed into knowledge (565).
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