Informating Learners

Experts recommend that learner's life at educational institution must be linked to their life outside of it. The learner's life outside of educational institution includes life at home and in community. Linking of learner's life to outside also implies that it must also include institutions where he/she is expected take positions and where his/her participation is required. One such future institution for a technical graduate is obviously industry. At higher education life this also means readying learner for professional life. Experts also recognise that given space, time and freedom,learners generate new knowledge by engaging with information passed on to them by adults: teachers and parents. We have been often told that we live in information age and information is a productive factor. The web has become a growing source of information and one of the necessary skills to be cultivated in learners is to "know where" i.e. ability to locate and procure information that they need for task on hand.