The main components of the lecture I found interesting, educational and useful was the definition of data, information and knowledge, there characteristics, importance and the relationships between data, information and knowledge.
Data – Is a fact or proposition.
Information – A collection of facts or data that relate to each other.
Knowledge – The sum and/or range of what has been perceived discovered or learned.
Characteristics of Data
- Factual
- Non judgmental
- Has no intrinsic “meaning”
- Has no intrinsic “value”
Importance of Data collection
Collection of valid, unbiased data is essential.
Must be representative
Characteristics of Information
- Summative
- Relational
- Permanent
- Has meaning
- Uncertain value
Importance of information collection
Must inform
Must be relational to the data represented
Must be meaningful
Characteristics of Knowledge
- Experiential
- Judgmental
- Subjective
- Very valuable
Importance of Knowledge
Although subjective, its origin should be clear
Should be a well thought out conclusion
Justification should be established by the data and information
Relationships between Data, Information and Knowledge
Data: Are the individual facts or propositions on their own of limited value but can then be built into.
Information: a collection of facts that establishes trends and precedents in order to generate:
Knowledge: How humans experience and wisdom is applied to the information in order to make sense of it and inform a prediction or opinion.
Tutorial
In the tutorial Gary did in a depth check of our Blogs in class of what things had to be fixed up or improved to gain a higher mark. Gary showed on the projector the marking criteria for our blogg entries for our blog entries and talked about specific details of what we had to achieve to get these top marks . The marking guide helped me to also know what to double check and improve overall in order to get tops marks in every field. Once we had gone over Blogg marking criteria Gary allowed us to spend the rest of our time to complete workshop 11 on building knowledge.
Workshop 11 - Building KnowledgeThe first task is to browse the webpage http://www.success.co.il/is/dik.html or http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries and use the internet to find some dictionary meanings for the following terms data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
Once found then compile our own definitions for the above terms.
Data – Is factual information, used on a basis for discussion, opinion or calculation.
Information – Knowledge derived from experience, instruction or study.
Knowledge - Knowledge is acquired skills experienced throughout a person’s experience and education.
Wisdom – Is the ability to make good decision based on a individuals knowledge and second task is then to use the lecture slides and search the web for alternative ways to represent the terms above.
The second task is then to use the lecture slides and search the web for alternative ways to represent the above words. Using the drawing toolbar in MS word to create a graphical representation of the relationship of these terms.
The third task is to provide a brief outline of the benefits of understanding the relationship between data, information, and knowledge can assist in university studies.
Data: Is the research phase of an assignment. Data can assist you in forming ideas and sometimes provide factual back up for statements or observations.
Information: Is the building phase of an assignment, piecing bits of data together so it becomes meaningful to your assignment context. Information once collaborated a person shall start to see patterns emerge, which will help establish the structure of the work and help to consider conclusions.
Knowledge: The composition phase of the assignment, where a person begins to make their own judgements based on the information. The information is interpreted and the person begins to develop their own understanding or opinion of the topic. Summary, conclusion or recommendations may be written showing knowledge of the information and the data has informed by the information collected.
The fourth task is to make a list of five organisations that collect their information from clients or public. Once these organisations are displayed the next part of the task is then to document why these organisations retrieve information.
- Hungry Jacks
- Woolworths
- Leisure Centres
The above three mainly retrieve information from the public for feedback on what they offer, how their customer service is etc to try improve business standards.
- Journalists
- News Reporters
The above two mainly gather information in order to inform people and to endorse certain issues or opinions on topics.
Readings
The first reading of week 11 is from the webpage http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm. The webpage was created by Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro and Anthony Mills is about the relationship between data, knowledge, information, understanding and wisdom. The site has definitions of all the knowledge building phases and graph to represent there relationship. The site also gives a good example of the real life relationship between data, information and knowledge. The example goes
Data represents a fact or statement of event without relation to other things.
E.g. it is raining.
Information embodies the understanding of a relationship of some sort, possibly cause and effect.
E.g. the temperature dropped 15 degrees and then it started raining.
Knowledge represents a pattern that connects and generally provides a high level of predictability as to what is described or what will happen next.
E.g. If the humidity is very high and the temperature drops substantially the atmospheres is often unlikely to be able to hold the moisture so it rains.\
Wisdom embodies more of an understanding of fundamental principles embodied within the knowledge that are essentially the basis for the knowledge being what it is.
E.g. it rains because it rains. And this encompasses an understanding of all the interactions that happen between raining, evaporation, air currents, temperature gradients, changes, and raining.
The second reading of week 11 is from the webpage http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/index.html. The webpage was created by Thomas W. Eland, Minneapolis Community and Technical College and is a title page with hyperlink tutorial lessons designed to assist Spring Hill students master information literacy skills. The lessons include organisation of knowledge, from thesis to search strategy, fundamentals of online searching, using reference resources, citing your sources and copyright and fair uses. Once the lessons have been read and important information has been jotted down the student’s then move onto the assignments.
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