Topic for Today What is a topic David

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 www. cecil. edu

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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) www. cecil. edu

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

Cecil – Body of Knowledge Topic /Topics Media Resources www. cecil. edu

Information and Knowledge However 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 (13 th Century) www. cecil. edu

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

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

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

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

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

Courses Learning Units Goals Objectives Bo. K Elements www. cecil. edu Learning Units Build a Curriculum on the fly! Any Body of Knowledge

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

Building the Body of Knowledge ke Global Environment ke ke Professional Taxonomy ke Properties of a knowledge element Person Bo. K ke ke ke ke References ke ke ke Questions ke www. cecil. edu