The Four Resources Model for Social Media

In the world of education and literacy, the Four Resources Model (Luke & Freebody '90) is the ability to use the four families of resources of literacy: code breaking, comprehension, text user and critical analysis.

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We're going to modify things a bit for the blogosphere:

Code Breaking (Language): There is a language all its own out here (a 'trackback'?) That's one reason for the ongoing Glossary project.
Meaning Making (Tools): To properly collect and comprehend all the information, knowledge of what tools are available and how to use them is imperative.
Text Usage (Info Use): As we continue to dive into this Era of Infosumption, how do we sort and filter signal vs noise?
Text Analysis  (Info Management): What's worth reading? What do you do with it after you read it? Can you find it when you need to reference it?

We'll dissect these together in future posts and see what happens.

Download a copy of the graphic (which was adapted from the work of Angela Maiers)

  • http://www.personalbrandingsample.com Dan Schawbel

    Test usage should be very challenging moving forward as there is more and more information and tools to make use of that information.
    What information is beneficial and how do we get rid of the useless…

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    brillant picture – do you have the tools for german too?

  • http://www.psilimited.com/executive_coaching.html Executive Coaching Services

    Hi, just found your blog. Some great thoughts and articles. I look forward to reading more from your blog in the future.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    > Dan – The book Keeping Found Things Found is one I’m reading through right now — and it speaks alot about Info Use and Management. I highly recommend it. Spot on tho – we must learn to handle the incoming.
    > Such and ECS – Thanks for the kudos. Such, I don’t have a translation, though I’m sure there are tools available (use this as desired).