digital literacy and information fluency

What is Information fluency? This is the ability to see a need for new information and having the capability to find, ask, evaluate, explain and produce new types of knowledge. This is useful due to our information becoming outdated and invalid every day, thus we have a large need for new information to be discovered and understood every day. (Library, 2013)

information fluency process of the findings about Homo Naledi by professor Lee Berger :

Ask: what are the ground-breaking archaeological findings (homo Naledi)found by professor lee Berger?

Acquire: by scanning through several websites such as the NY times and national geographic. I captured key points and compared facts from different websites. By doing this I make sure that the websites I am using are recently updated and its information is accurate. I found out that there are more than 1550 specimens in all represent at least 15 individuals which were skulls, jaws, ribs and dozens of teeth. The parts of the skeleton looked astonishingly modern but some were just as astonishingly primitive in some case, even more ape like than the Australopithecus. “We have found a most remarkable creature’’ said Berger (shreeve, National geographic)

Analyze: Professor Lee Berger and his team made an amazing discovery of human bones in a small cave called Dinaledi just 100 yards from the cave main entrance. The Homo Naledi comes before the Homo sapiens and certain features of the bones were too primitive to be from human as they found 1300 bones that were assembled together to form a full human body parts. It appears that the Homo Naledi was quite large creatures and very similar to humans as they had long legs for walking, feet’s and hands. The Homo Naledi had a much smaller brain than the human brain.

Apply: Homo Naledi could have been part our roots as scientist have found more evidence that we evolved from apes. Homo Naledi got similar features to humans. Homo Naledi is the species that came before Homo sapiens. The Homo Naledi may have been thrown into the Dinaledi cave with no way out and therefore died there, or it may have used the cave as a shelter and was trapped in there by a falling rock. The findings of Homo Naledi are very significant as it changes the view of history as well as how the species evolved.

Asses: the process used to acquire the information was legitimate as Lee Berger was at the scene.the research and the source I used is valid and reliable as the information given could be proved by the bones found at the scene.