a package of awareness class

1. PACKAGE OF
AWARENESS CLASS
ON
INFORMATION OVERLOADING
EDU 106.12- GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

2. INTRODUCTION
Information overload is a common
phenomenon seen in the modern world. Too
much of information presented before a
person make it difficult for him to find out
which is relevant and which is irrelevant. The
stress and burden caused by too many data
is called Information Overload.
The term was first coined by American
Social Scientist B M Gross in 1964, but
popularized by famous Futurologist Alvin
Toffler through his book Future Shock.

3. Shortly Information overload is a situation
in which a person gets more information than he
can deal with at one time and become tired and
confused. It occures when individuals are aware
of relevant information but do not have the time
to locate and use that information.

4. EFFECT OF INFORMATION OVERLOADING
 Experience adverse mental and social health issues
 Experience behavioural, learning and attention problems
 Adverse effect on mental health and management
problems
 Could be an underlying cause of adolescent suicides,
retarded reading skills or the inability to complete tasks
Symptoms of dysfunction,unease,frustration and reduced
tolerance

5.  Confuse the individual, affect his or her ability
to set priorities or makes prior information
harder to recall
 Adversely affect quick decision making. When
information are too many, the individual needs
more time to reach a decision
 Affect the ability of creative problem solving of
individuals

6. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TOPIC
Through out history there have been
complaints about information overload particularly
during the Renaissance and the Industrial revolution
periods. However, in the second half of the 20th
century, advances in computer and information
technology led to the creation of Internet. It made
unprecedented changes in the field of information
that we had never seen before.
Availability of abundance of information
started to confuse individuals.

7. Although there is no simple solution to the problem
of information overloading, there are some things that can
be done to reduce the problem to some an extent. These
include:
 Spending less time on gaining information that is nice to
know and more time on things that we need to know now
 Focusing on quality of information, rather than quantity
 Single tasking and keeping the mind focussed on one
issue at a time
 Concentrate on things that we do at a time
 Learn how to create better information.

8. OBJECTIVES
 make aware people about the impact of information
overloading on our mental and health well being
 to give helpful information on how to effectively tackle
this problem in one’s life
 to convince everybody that this is a phenomenon
affecting all human beings without any descrimination
 to provide the causes and reasons of information
overload in one’s life
 to help people to identify their focus area and set their
goals

9. CONCLUSION
Information overload is a creature that has
been growing on the internet’s back since its
beginning. The bigger the internet gets, the more
information there is.
The more quality information we see, the
more we want to consume it. The more we want
to consume it, the more overloaded we feel. So
there let’s combat this problem by following a
clear perspective on handling information we
happened to get or see.

10. THANK YOU
Abdul Rasheed. P P,
Option : English
Reg. No. :160011003333