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Learning Gardens: Storytelling Opportunities
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Jack Park Knowledge Federation Conference Dubrovnik, Croatia October, 2012
A Narrative Arc
A necessarily staccato sketch of this arc follows
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
–Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A Scenario—Discoveries in Disparate Conversations?
Discovery?
Joe is in Medical School studying to be a doctor
Joe is preparing for a test on Bacterial Infections
A Scenario—1
Immune Response
Bacterial Infection
Macrophage
Free Radical
Reactive Oxygen
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bookmark page with these tags
Annotate page with this idea Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
A Scenario—2
Sarah lives a healthy lifestyle
Sarah read that free radicals can cause cancer
A Scenario—3
Antioxidant
Free Radical
Bookmark page with these tags
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Annotate page with this idea Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
A Scenario—4
Ben is a cancer patient with recurring bacterial infections
Ben visits a garden condo to research bacterial infections
A Scenario—5
Note: Ben is modeled after the author; while the author made the same discovery, it occurred by different means. Still, this scenario supports the case that important discoveries are available through federation of individual acts.
Ben makes a discovery
What’s this all about?
Ben becomes curious about free radicals—a new concept to him
A Scenario—6
Free Radical
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
antioxidants kill
free radicals
antioxidants kill
free radicals
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Ben adds a new Connection between
the two ideas
Use garden condo tools to record discoveries
Must Avoid
A Scenario—7
Ben makes a decision Sounds like I should not take any more antioxidant pills!
Olivia is a Medical Doctor interested in immune system subjects
A Scenario—8
antioxidants kill
free radicals
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Need to restate this information
“Must Avoid” doesn’t really
convey a proper sense of reality
Must Avoid
A Scenario—9
Olivia visits the garden
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Contraindicates
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
Because
Create a new set of representations by connecting the two core concepts and
explaining the connection
Olivia gets bonus points for justifying her assertion.
Use garden condo tools to record discoveries
A Scenario—10
Contraindicates Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
A Scenario—11
A Challenge is posed to the primary
assertion
“Compromised host” as a new concept to be represented in the
knowledge base
Use garden condo tools to record discoveries
A Scenario—12 Structured conversation responds
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Contraindicates
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
Because
Appropriate For
Compromised Host
Use garden condo tools to record discoveries
A Scenario—13 Co-created resource in the garden
From the perspective of complexity theory, emergence arises from complex systems that create new properties from “autonomous unities coming together into larger, more powerful unities”*
Complex Systems Shared Stories Collaboration in the Garden
* [2]
The emergence we seek is that of insight into the nature of and solutions to complex problems
Great Law of the Iroquois
"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation...”
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“…We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” –Albert Einstein
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric – Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Strategy
Learning, Improving Requires Feedback
ordered gardens
wild borders
ordered gardens
wild borders
Structured but emergent networks of claims and arguments
Informally expressed claims and arguments,
awaiting ‘proper linkage’
Source: Simon Buckingham Shum
Towards a cultivated ecosystem…
Triple Learning Loop
[1], Page 23
Knowledge Gardening Behaviors
• Stages of Basic Research Behaviors
– Forage Filter Analyze Synthesize
• At each stage
– Capture results
– Dialogue where appropriate
• Narrative, Story emerges through dialogue
An Approach: Role-playing Games
• Massive, multi-player online role playing games – One kind of gardening – Quests
• Well posed issues – Learning contexts
– Guilds • Apprenticeships in the modern age of complex problem
solving
– Game mechanics • Motivation • Augmented trust and social collaboration • Social learning
Life in a Guild – Using role-playing
game mechanics for collaboration on quests
– Guild results are federated and posted for public use
– All aspects of a topic are covered by virtue of many guilds working on the same quest
– Stories created by a Documenter/Scribe Roleplayer
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Garden Workflow Big Picture
Encyclopedia
Workbench World of
Information Sources
•Collect and curate information resources •Transfer them to a Workbench
•Annotate, Tag, Connect ideas at the Workbench •Create summary topics in the Encyclopedia •Organize Workbench resources in Topic Map
Topic Map
Completed Representation
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Contraindicates
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
Because
Appropriate For
Compromised Host
Let us co-create our future
About Me
Built airplane
Undergrad study: aero eng.
Built windmills/Solar homes
Built wind/solar sensors
AI to analyze data
Collective intelligence
Knowledge gardens
Life in a Waterfall
References
• [1] FEDERAL HEALTH FUTURES SUMMIT LEADERSHIP LEARNING for TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE. September 10-11, 2012 Washington DC Metro Region
• [2] Olen Gunnlaugson (2011). A Complexity Perspective on Presencing. Complicity, Vol 9, No 1 (2012). Online at: http://ejournals.library.