Grappling with ideas: divergence and convergence

Stian Håklev, PhD Student, OISE/University of TorontoPresentation to CCK 11

April 7, 2011 - Creative Commons BY

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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

References will be available

on my blog

Thank you!

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