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Wolfram|Alpha
Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation,
and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.
Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and wo...
Content used to be king (learning in an online world)
There was a time when books, newspapers, magazines and journals were the prime source of content and information. It was always your move! navigating the authority maze, enjoying slow reading of (limited) information sources in order to gain a knowledge base that matched a particular curriculum outline.
This was when content was king and the teacher was the sage on the stage.
Now communication is the new curriculum, and content is but grist to the mill that churns new knowledge. Why? I came across a few good reads this week that set me thinking and wondering about the changes that we must support in our teaching and in our library services.
Darwin Day: A Celebration of Science, Not Conflict
This February 12 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, a man whose life and work epitomize the revolutionary implications of knowledge. There will be much discussion of his “dangerous idea”—evolution by natural selection—on this occasion, and appropriately so. Yet we should resist one overwhelming temptation: To frame Darwin as an icon of conflict between science and faith. It’s a hackneyed story, lacking in historical nuance and ultimately running counter to the project of drawing helpful lessons from the life of one of history’s greatest scientists.
Myths About Learning (SMR Blog)
Researchers at the University of Tennessee list out several myths about learning. The premise that everyone starts with the same base of knowledge about a particular subject, everyone learns at the same pace, everyone learns best by listening, everyone will bridge naturally from theory to application, everyone should learn on his or her own rather than in collaboration and learning is the transfer of knowledge from a teacher to a passive learner results in excessive telling or lecture. “We don’t remember information totally; we reconstruct the way information connects to [other] information,”…”That means learners have to reconstruct the interconnectors or forget what they’ve learned in a short time. The stuff you remember is what you use to make the interconnections.”
FUN can play a great role in making the interconnections or associations.
Data, Information, Knowledge, & Wisdom
There is probably no segment of activity in the world attracting as much attention at present as that of knowledge management. Yet as I entered this arena of activity I quickly found there didn't seem to be a wealth of sources that seemed to make sense in terms of defining what knowledge actually was, and how was it differentiated from data, information, and wisdom. What follows is the current level of understanding I have been able to piece together regarding data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. I figured to understand one of them I had to understand all of them.
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