Question 2: Digital Literacy and information Fluency {POE}

Q.2.1 Information fluency skills to analyze the groundbreaking archeological findings (Homo Naledi) by Professor Lee Berger from Wits University.

Information Fluency

Information fluency can be described as skills needed not only to search, gather information and evaluate, but to create useful knowledge that will help to solve problems. The five (5) Information Fluency process are: Ask, Acquire, Analyze, Apply and Assess. The information fluency process may be used to analyze this groundbreaking archeological as follows;

Step 1: Ask

Relevant questions must be asked in order to receive relevant information. One you should ask about it is what does species fossils belongs to and how this new information could contribute to knowledge already acquired that relates to this species; relevant questions must be asked about the fossil.

Step 2: Acquire

Information is acquired by scientists leading the expectations. This is done by studying the fossil in a professional manner in order to acquire information such as how old the fossil is.

Step 3: Analyze

One must analyze the information which has been acquired in order to organize and arrange it. One must make the decision whether the information acquired about the fossil is trustworthy and if it can be used to make assumptions about the theory of evaluation.

Step 4: Apply

One must apply the information acquired. If the information can be used by scientists to further their studies in their human species.

Step 5: Assess

One must assess whether the process of analyzing the groundbreaking archeological findings could have been carried out effectively, for example by using more advanced technology to study the remains.

Facts about the Homo Naledi sapiens:

Ø  Homo Naledi has a small brain case.

Ø  The ribcage and shoulders and pelvis are also similar to the earlier Homo sapiens.

Ø  Homo Naledi looks more primitive and the teeth are more similar to apes.

Ø  The legs and feet of naledi indicate that the fossil was tall.

Ø  The measurements of the Homo Naledi sapiens brain were 1.5 meters tall 45 kilograms.

Additional Information

v  According to Lee, B. 2015 stated that scientists and researchers, led by Wits University Professor Lee Berger, believe they've unearthed a new species of human relative in the world’s richest hominid fossil site, the Cradle of Humankind.

v  Homo Naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominid discovered within the Di-Naledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa by Professor Lee Berger.

v  This species is characterized by body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human populations but a small Endocrinal volume similar to Australopithecus.

v  The while primitive dentition is generally small and simple in occlusion morphology.

v  Homo Naledi exhibits a human like foot and lower limb, and these human like aspects are contrasted in the postprandial with a more primitive or Australopithecus-like trunk, shoulder, pelvis and proximal femur.

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