This requires students to consider the information in context, that is, the relationship of the information to the overall project of the course. The problem with information is that it all looks alike and talks alike and walks alike. What we haven't really discussed is generality and specificity of information. This is tough topic because both generality and specifity are relative terms. You can never pin them down for they are always determined by their context.
Information is general when it covers a wide variety of phenomena.
This is true, too. If I were to bring up the subject of traditional African cultures, most people would know that Africans speak languages or that they speak different languages than Europeans. Specific information subsumes a very limited number and variety of phenomena. The most specific information only deals with one and only one phenomenon or variety of phenomenon. Almost all information that you're exposed to in college occupies the continuum between completely general and completely specific information.