SCIS Oration

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Students Managing Personal Knowledge:

By Instinct or Intervention?

Joy H. McGregor, Charles Sturt UniversityIsland Journeys, Hobart, Tasmania

ASLA National Conference October 2003SCIS Oration

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Knowledge: two concepts

Bloom’s taxonomy (1956)

• Knowledge• Comprehension• Application• Analysis• Synthesis• Evaluation

Information Hierarchy(1982)

• Data• Information• Knowledge• Wisdom

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Knowledge: a new view

Two dimensions:

Knowledge and Cognitive Process

Concrete Abstract

Factual | Conceptual | Procedural | Metacognitive

Anderson, LW & Krathwohl, DR 2001, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives. Longman, NY.

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Factual knowledge

• Knowledge of terminology

• Knowledge of specific details and elements

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Conceptual knowledge

• Knowledge of classifications and categories

• Knowledge of principles and generalisations

• Knowledge of theories, models, and structures

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Procedural knowledge

• Knowledge of subject-specific skills and algorithms

• Knowledge of subject-specific techniques and methods

• Knowledge of criteria for determining when to use appropriate procedures

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Metacognitive knowledge

• Strategic knowledge

• Knowledge about cognitive tasks, including appropriate contextual and conditional knowledge

• Self-knowledge

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Todd’s Skills for KM

• People skills

• Cognitive skills

• Management skills

• Organisation and business skills

• Information processing skills

• IT skills

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People skills

• Collaborative learning:– Team work and networking– Cooperation with others– Building trust relationships – Perseverance and motivation– Conflict resolution and negotiation– Alliance building– Advocacy

• I-Search:– Interview skills– Perseverance and motivation

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Cognitive skills

• Thinking skills• Analytical skills• Synthesis• Judgement• Evaluation• Ability to define the scope• Oral and written communication• Presentation skills

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Management skills

• Change management

• Research and research management

• Project management

• Database management

• Human resources management

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Organisation and business skills

• Marketing

• View bigger picture

• Policy formation

• Business acumen

• Able to link outcomes to organisations

• Crystal ball gazing

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Information processing skills

• Packaging information

• Recording information

• Methods of storage and retrieval

• Organising information

• Distributing information

• Content management

• Cataloging and classifying

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Information technology skills

• Database design

• Information systems

• Web publishing

• Internet publishing

• Use of groupware software

• Computer software skills

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Outcome based model

United Way of America. 1996. Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach. United Way of America.

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Inputs

Resources dedicated to or consumed

by the program

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Activities

What the program does

with the inputs

to fulfill its mission

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Outputs

The direct products of

program activities

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Outcomes

Benefits for participants

during and after

program activities

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Personal Understandings

Inquiry learning

Connect

Wonder

Investigate

Construct

Express

Reflect

Stripling, Barbara. In press. Inquiry based learning. Ch. In Curriculum and Instruction through the library. Libraries Unlimited. Colorado.

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Remember (Knowledge 1956)

• Recognising

• Recalling

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Understand (Comprehension 1956)

• Interpreting

• Exemplifying

• Classifying

• Summarising

• Inferring

• Comparing

• Explaining

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Apply (Application 1956)

• Executing

• Implementing

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Analyse (Analysis 1956)

• Differentiating

• Organising

• Attributing

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Evaluate (Evaluation 1956)

• Checking

• Critiquing

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Create (Synthesis 1956)

• Generating

• Planning

• Producing

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein

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Managing knowledge=wisdom?

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,The mere materials with which wisdom builds,Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper,1736.

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Reference List

Anderson, LW & Krathwohl, DR 2001, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives, Longman, NY.

Cowper, W 1785, In The Columbia World of Quotations, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, viewed 1 October 2003 <www.bartleby.com/66/>.

Measuring program outcomes: A practical approach, 1996, United Way of America.

Todd, RJ 2003, The Smart School: Knowledge management working for your future. ASLA Biennial Conference SCIS Oration, viewed 20 September 2003, http://www.asla.org.au/Todd.pdf.

Todd, RJ & Southon, G 2001, ‘Educating for knowledge management: Perceptions of library and information professionals’. Australian Library Journal vol. 50, no. 4, viewed 20 September 2003, <http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/alj/50.4/full.text/educating.html>.