grappling with ideas: divergence and convergence
DESCRIPTION
What does brainstorming, workshops with sticky notes, small online group learning and big distributed networks of researchers have in common? They are all grappling with big ideas, and trying to make sense of them. This talk identifies some common principles of idea-centric learning, and brings in examples from the learning sciences literature to discuss how the design of a collaborative platform can affect the direction and quality of the discourse that happens. Invited talk in CCK11, April 6, 2011. Extended notes: http://reganmian.net/wiki/grappling_with_ideasTRANSCRIPT
Grappling with ideas: divergence and convergence
Stian Håklev, PhD Student, OISE/University of TorontoPresentation to CCK 11
April 7, 2011 - Creative Commons BY
CC BY Betsy Weber @ Flickr
CC BY Valerie’s Genealogy Photos @ Flickr
What’s going on here?
•externalization
•spatial organization
•hierarchy, containers, levels, zoom, yanking
•(GTD, OOP software)
Divergence,convergence,divergence,
convergence,etc.
Stimulus,response,stimulus,response,
...,end of the course
Cycle of divergence andconvergence +final product -
representation that can be shared with
others
Ideas are not fixed in one spot - affords emergent understanding of categories,
connectionsAlways have a shared
up-to-date representation of the
“state of the knowledge of the group” - enables knowledge talks
artefactdiscourse
(cumulative vs integrative, time-based vs topic-based, high-
context vs low-context, dialogue vs monologue)
Deixis?
Suthers:
salienceconstraints
Suthers, 2001
Suthers, 2001
Alternative 1: A more web-savvy KF
APIs
Alternative 2: A KB open web overlay
initial post
Rise above
build-upons
105
人际网络 - 英文与中文的开放教育世界
44
Downes
46
不同的认识性角色(epistemic roles)
45
Macro-collaboration andmicro-collaboration
Monologue to each other, or dialgoue with each
other
4643
基于潜在语义索引的聚类基于引文网络的聚类
4747
Teplovs (2010)
Want to talk moreabout this?
Questions, comments
