I've put forward a simple definition of knowledge on my Knowing Knowledge blog: "At its simplest, information is a node which can be connected. When connected, it becomes knowledge (i.e. it possesses some type of context and is situated in relation to other elements). The combined nature of many such connections results in understanding...i.e. understanding is an emergent property of the network".
Would love to hear reactions/thoughts.
UPDATE: I managed to delete about a year's worth of comments from my site...so if you don't see your response here, that's why - my apologies. :(
Posted by gsiemens at June 7, 2007 10:37 AM | TrackBackWhere does intuition fit in? I like Kolb's distinction between comprehensive and apprehensive knowledge. I think this fits well with connectivism as apprehensive knowledge would be the knowledge that comes from making the connections with the nodes where as comprehensive knowledge would be the recognition of the network and nodes.
Posted by: Virginia Yonkers at June 15, 2007 1:34 PMInteresting, the way you make the difference between information ans knowledge. If I understood correctly, information that isn't shared and it´s kept hidden by those who produce it it's only data; and data only mean something when it´s related to something, when it's read in a context or is articulated with something else. If not, it realy doesn't make sense.
Interesting..