Event: Digital Literacy Contest – September 2008
Digital Literacy Contest
The George A. Smathers Libraries, in conjunction with the InfoCommons@West, hosted the Digital Literacy Contest, a competition testing Internet literacy and cognitive agility, on Wednesday, September 17 in Library West. www.digitalliteracycontest.org
You can read the article from the Independent Florida Alligator here:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/09/18/news/campus/080917_library.txt
Two back-to-back competitions began at 11:00 a.m. Contestants were given 30 minutes, 50 questions and Internet access. Correct answers earned points and incorrect answers were penalized. The highest scores won the competition and winners were awarded cash prizes.
FIRST PLACE: $150
Stacey Gray
SECOND PLACE: $50
YueFeng Xu
THREE TIED FOR THIRD PLACE: $20 EACH
Alexandra Conti
Jarrod Tredway
Sey Hee Park
The contest was free and open to all UF students, faculty, staff and community members. Following the competitions the libraries hosted a discussion on digital information literacy.
Free pizza and drinks were provided by Hungry Howie’s Pizza and the Library PRAM Committee.
The Digital Literacy Contest was created in 2007 by then Purdue University student Daniel Poynter. It has since grown to other universities across the nation including Brown University and Indiana University.
“This is the first competition in which people wield the Internet as a cognitive prosthetic,” said Poynter. “ It’s a high speed battle of Internet-enabled intelligence. It has three main objectives: to identify people who thrive in information overload; to disseminate their insights; and to create a discussion about what it means to be digitally literate. Unparalleled global access to information is accelerating technological and social change. Making sense of our increasingly complex world depends upon becoming better information filters through the help of libraries. This competition is one way to ease ourselves into this exciting future.”
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