1 / 18

Topic for Today What is a topic? David C White

Topic for Today What is a topic? David C White. “There is no treasure like knowledge” – Ali. “That which can be written is not knowledge”. www.cecil.edu. Whakapapa - a Body of Knowledge. Family Tree. - Oral/Carved. - Repository. - Replication. “The Net” of Relationships.

harley
Download Presentation

Topic for Today What is a topic? David C White

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Topic for Today What is a topic? David C White “There is no treasure like knowledge” – Ali “That which can be written is not knowledge” www.cecil.edu

  2. Whakapapa - a Body of Knowledge Family Tree - Oral/Carved - Repository - Replication “The Net” of Relationships

  3. David Merrill – Knowledge Objects The greatest impact on learning results from the representation and organisation of the knowledge (subject matter) to be learned Biggest problem in education is the lack of precision of how we analyse and structure the subject matter (knowledge)

  4. The Teaching Cycle • Define Topics to be taught from a Body of Knowledge (BOK) • Associate Resources with topics • Plan the Teaching Activities • Associate Topics with Activities • Plan Assessments • Execute the Teaching Plan • Assess Learning

  5. Cecil – Body of Knowledge Media Resources Topic /Topics

  6. Information and KnowledgeHowever much you study you cannot know without action.A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.Empty of essence, what learning has he –Whether upon him is firewood or book? Saadi of Shiraz (13th Century)

  7. Categorization of Things (Media Resources) • Explicit Categorization • Placing files into a folder/directory • Key wording • Meta-tagging • Topic Maps • generally most practical for images • Implicit Categorization • Search • Only works if there is an appropriate reference in the work • Not generally practical for images

  8. Explicit Categorization of an Image Compaq Picture taken at Kiluea, Hawaii Picture taken 3/1/03 Pocket PC Pen Water Bottle Media Notebook

  9. Topic Maps Categorization Implicit Explicit • “GPS of the Information Universe” • Network • Each topic may be related to many other topics • Trees • Primitive forms of a Topic Map • Un-conscious but explicit creation of taxonomies • Folders on Disk Drives • Email folders Search Meta-tag Keyword

  10. Topic Maps • Search • Topic Maps can be used to give context to Search • Search terms are part of a persons topic map • Can have many topic maps for a set of media resources • Topic Maps allow creation of sets of views • Multiple viewpoints aid understanding

  11. Cecil (Global) BoK Personal Links Networked (Personal) BoK BoK Admin Approval Individuals have complete control over their BoKs and may link to the global Bok. Only the BoK administrator can move a personal BoK element into the global BoK. CRUD tools are provided by Cecil Laptop (Personal) BoK

  12. Courses Learning Units Learning Units Learning Units Learning Units Build a Curriculum on the fly! Goals Objectives BoK Elements Any Body of Knowledge

  13. David Merrill • Information is not instruction! • Instructional Scientist is • One who uses intuition to produce principles which are empirically tested by instructional research (results) and subsequently modified as necessary • Both principles and results feed intuition creating a triad which forms the core of the instructional scientist’s activities, with principles as the output

  14. Building the Body of Knowledge ke Global Environment ke ke ke ke ke ke ke Properties of a knowledge element Professional Taxonomy Person BoK ke ke ke ke ke ke References ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke Questions ke ke ke

More Related