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The Flow of Information

How information develops over time...

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lesson overview

An explanation of how and where information appears and is published over time, using two different topics as research examples.

  • Historical Context: before something happens, the world surrounding it sets the stage.
  • Something happens: an event, such as an election, disaster, discovery, publication of a work, or the performance of a play.
  • Or something develops: a movement, an era, an idea, an ideology, or a religious belief that significantly affects many people for a time or continuously, such as the women's suffrage movement, the beginning of Christianity or Buddhism, the development of a democracy, or the Information Age.
  • Days or weeks afterwards: informal discussion and sharing occurs.
  • Months or years afterwards: formal discussion and documentation of evidence is created, disseminated, and in many cases added to over time.
  • Finding sources: methods of finding information sources are described.

 

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