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By: Talkin' 'bout my cerebration. » Blog Archive » Managing the Transformational Learning Project

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:54:53 +0000

[...] in these posts. The two posts are Five Ways to Create Spectacular Classrooms by Dean Groom, and Age of External Knowledge by George Siemens. When I read these two posts initially, my thinking was kicked into overdrive [...]

By: Clases digitales interactivas | El blog de Miguel Ángel García Guerra

Clases digitales interactivas | El blog de Miguel Ángel García Guerra — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:02:38 +0000

[...] | Maestros del web Enlace | Age of external knowledge Enlace | What do you think the web will look like in twenty years Créditos de foto | Luc Legay [...]

By: DolorsCapdet

DolorsCapdet — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:28:03 +0000

Not all information becomes knowledge.

Only is anchor in our brains the information that we do not know and we find it relevant. The rest, simply we discard it.

However, if this information is consolidated, establishes internal relations needed to create a pattern or model that improves prediction of what might happen next and, therefore, facilitates decision-making. This is what Tufte, 1997, calls Knowledge.

The ability to recognize and manage the largest number of these patterns and models of knowledge would be wisdom.

By: Kelly Edmonds

Kelly Edmonds — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:14:55 +0000

Interesting notion, George. I like how the emergence of current technology and all its after effects (increased networks, communications, visual displays, etc) affect our perceptions and need for knowledge. This is good… change is good. I find the notion exciting to ponder and perhaps push the envelope.

However, what about wisdom? Is that not accumulated and internalized knowledge? I don’t suspect one could find wisdom or expertise online, but rather create it through experience and time (with some part supported by technology use). Therefore, I assume in your post you are referring to basic facts when you suggest we can find the knowledge we need through networks. Or find new ideas. Am I reading that right?

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:42:20 +0000

Re. “…when I externalize something, it’s information. When someone connects it in some manner, it becomes knowledge. Knowledge is essentially relatedness/connectedness.”

—- Someone just asked me: If information is to pass to a state of knowledge, mustn’t it be first verified, certified, validated? Funny how Wikipedia was my first image to come to mind when I read this…
Thoughts?

By: The age of external knowledge: why know anything except how to search « kansas reflections

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:34:38 +0000

[...] } An interesting post on The Age of External Knowledge and the role of knowledge vs capacity to search. Very trusting of Google: too [...]

By: ken long

ken long — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:11:49 +0000

more important than the facts-on-hand, are the questions-in-mind which condition us to be alert to the answers we need.

if there is a limit on cognitive space, then best is to have the right questions in mind

By: Do I Need to Know It, or Just How to Find It?

Do I Need to Know It, or Just How to Find It? — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:53:18 +0000

[...] Tom Werner on January 20, 2010 George Siemens observes that we are in the age of external knowledge, pointing to a New York Times article of the same name, which in turn points to Edge asking how is [...]