Federating Cultures: Human Knowledge, Teachers, Students
Transcript of Federating Cultures: Human Knowledge, Teachers, Students
Federating Cultures:Human Knowledge, Teachers, Students
Jack Park
The Opportunity…
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.“
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Steps (Big Picture)
1. Plan core knowledge organization.
2. Implement museum.
3. Grow knowledge interactively.
Core Concepts
Virtual Museum*
Interactive Knowledge Garden
*Image: Ohio University in SecondLife
Plan
• As discussed in Linda’s talk– Build a concept map that
illustrates the concepts to be displayed in the museum
Implement the museum
• Create presentations for each concept
Interact with the exhibits
• Treat the exhibits as a knowledge garden
• Answer questions• Suggest new concepts to exhibit• Grow and tend the garden…
Pedegogic Processes:Gowin’s V
After: Novak, J. D., & D. B. Gowin. (1984). Learning how to learn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
What learners already know
Questions about the subjects of museum exhibits…
New concepts and dialog added to museum
Tools To Facilitate Learning
• A framework that federates many ways of interacting– Based on Topic Maps,
Wiki-like structures, and Web 2.0-like tools
• Tagging/Annotating• Dialog mapping• Storytelling
Tagging
• People create bookmarks of web pages (Subjects) with Tags– Tags identify those bookmarks
• Reminders
• People create new Tags or use Tags made by othersUser: sue23 Tag: WebSearch
URL: http://www.google.com/
Annotation
• Like Tagging, except…– User places typed link between two web
pages (subjects)– e.g “A argues against X”
User: sue23
TypedLink: Argues Against
URL: http://.../abc URL: http://.../xyz
Dialog Mapping
Storytelling
“…stories are a powerful means to understand what happened (the sequence of events) and why (the causes and effects of those events)” – John Seeley Brown in
The Social Life of Information
What We Are Doing Now
Periodic Table Metaphor 1
Empty cells
predicted elements to be
discovered
Periodic Table Metaphor 2
Bay Area
Science
Collaboratory
Empty cells suggest missing information
The Opportunity Restated• We see the opportunity to create a
platform for learning, creativity, and problem solving from existing open source resources– Combinations of
• Subject Map-based federation framework• Web 2.0/3.0 user interface applications
– Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, …• 3-D user environments
– SecondLife