Week 11

I had difficulty changing the font for this week's blog as it changes from the Times New Roman style I have been using throughout the entire blog to Arial. There should be two breaks or enters between tasks, lectures, tutorials and readings.


Task 1 – Finding Definitions for the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Terms and Rewording Them:

I browsed the website called “Knowledge Map of Information Science: Data, Information, Knowledge” which contained a compilation of different professors from around the world with their ideas on the terms: data, information and knowledge. The next seven screenshots have the professors giving different descriptions of the terms.

I looked these four definitions up on Dictionary.com and came up with the following:

Data - individual facts, statistics, or items of information.

Information - knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.

Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.

Wisdom - the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.

As the task asked me to I generated my own definitions for theses terms, even though it was very difficult in doing so, they included:

Data – is small or single pieces of information in the form of statistics or writing.

Information – is a group of data which can include wording and numbering.

Knowledge – is the amount of information absorbed which can be used to explain in writing or speech.

Wisdom – is also the amount of information absorbed but the more information and knowledge that a person has means that they have more experience about a topic.

Task 2 – Alternative Way to Show These Terms in Graphical Representation:

I had a look at the lecture slides and some examples of ways to represent graphical material on the internet and used this model:

It shows data becomes information, information to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. A person cannot have wisdom about a topic if they do not have any knowledge or information on the subject. Therefore the same sort of relationship will always be present in knowledge management between the four words, as they are all required for the process.

Task 3 – Relationship between data, information and knowledge and how it can assist in university study:

Being able to use data, information and knowledge can assist in university study in a very beneficial way. As data is collected, this then becomes a group of information and finally turns into knowledge which can be used over and over again. The three points work together, as a starting point needs to be made otherwise there would be no knowledge of the subject present.

Task 4 – Organisations Which May Collect Information from a Person:

These organisations will all require a name, date of birth, where a person lives, where they come from and other information. But more specifically these are what these organisations would need to obtain:

University – to find out where to send important information to, to see whether a student is still attending a course, for passwords into the computer system, immigration information.

Teacher/Lecturer – to understand students, and create a positive relationship so that learning can take place.

Police – for criminal activity, to help the community be a safer place.

Government – to see what the public believe on a certain topic.

Employer – to find out whether someone is a good worker, where they come from, to see if it worth hiring the person, to create a relationship with the employee to make a positive work environment.

Bank – so that an account can be created and kept for you, certain information is required from you such as passwords.

Gym – to find out who you are as a person so a relationship can be made between people in the gym, to find out where to withdraw money for payments.

Lawyer – to gain knowledge of the case and defend the client.

Psychologist/Psychiatrist – to have a stronger understanding of a client so that the correct methods can be used to help them

Doctor – to help create a record with information about you as a person, what medicine can be used when a patient become sick or drugs that may help.

Mechanic – to find out what model your vehicle is so correct materials can be purchased if there are any faults.

Sony – find out which products are being sold and which aren’t, to find out what the general public want in a product.

Record Companies –find out if a band would sell a record, how many can or will be sold.

Reference List:


Data [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Data


Information [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Information


Knowledge [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Knowledge


Wisdom [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wisdom

Lecture:

Week 11 focused on three terms which were data, information and knowledge. But before moving into the presentation a pop quiz took place which contained six questions:

1. What is a Boolean search?

2. What strategies can you use to give a great presentation?

3. What criteria can be used for evaluation of websites?

4. What are the advantages of atom based information?

5. What was the original purpose of the internet?

6. What are the 5 top things you have learned about the use of technology at university in this unit?

This lecturer spoke a lot about different types of data and went on to talk about bit and atom based types of text.

Tutorial:

This week's tutorial was about completing the workshop and what needed to be included in our blogs up to Week 11. The class then set to work out our weekly tasks.

Readings of the Week:

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro and Anthony Mills describes knowledge management in two ways. The five different sections that the brain can be divided into include: data, information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

The first way, is quite a complex explanation given to these words trying to tell the reader about knowledge management.

But the second is a much simpler way of expressing with the example of ‘What is it?’ that is given, each sentence is a piece of data, together it becomes a group of information and finally with our knowledge of what the product it is we can figure it out that it is a refrigerator.

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Oregon Technology in Education Council explains with several points the four terms; data, knowledge and wisdom.

Then the rest of the document is divided into three sub headings. The first, is organizing the terms into graphs and diagrams to show the relationship they have with one another. Secondly the business view and lastly the educational view on these terms.