I recently gave a talk at the University of Minnesota Learning Informatics Lab, which is a really interesting lab focusing on the research, design, and mobilize of information technology and data analytics to improve learning and conditions for learning. Many…
Another piece I wrote a couple of years ago, unsuccessfully pitched (a shorter version) to a magazine. I’ve been watching my parents’ eyebrows for 6 months now*. A weekly ritual of Skype calls, London to Sydney, and we haven’t quite…
Did a keynote at the Australian Science Communicators conference in Sydney a few weeks ago. Slides embedded below. The speaker notes are pretty content rich (references, and roughly what I said in the talk for most of them, plus some…
One of my areas of interest is how people understand and integrate information from across multiple sources, particularly where those sources aOre divergent in stance and varied in credibility. I wrote a bit about how I see this issue (epistemic…
Writing this article was a bit serendipitous really, I worked on the extended mind thesis and its implications in education in my Philosophy of Education MA at (what is now) the UCL Institute of Education (dissertation here). When I moved…
I wrote this about a year ago and for some reason never hit publish…anyway, here: There is an increasing concern regarding the prominence of claims of dubious credibility on the internet, and students’ abilities to make these credibility judgements….
Wrote an op-ed for Australasian Science magazine, arguing that focusing too much on ‘bursting the filter bubble’ is a red herring in terms of improving public discourse, and might in fact make matters worse. You can access the piece from…
Interested in how psychology helps inform how we find, evaluate, and use evidence? I’ve got a new piece out at the British Psychological Society’s magazine site The Psychologist on ‘Epistemic cognition: a lens onto fake news‘. The piece is freely…
Another article from my PhD research shortly to appear in a special issue of Information Retrieval on ‘Search as Learning’. Knight, S., Rienties, B., Littleton, K., Tempelaar, D. T., Mitsui, M., & Shah, C. (2017). The Orchestration of a Collaborative…
New output from my PhD work, in which we analyse self-report and trace data around a task that required students to find, evaluate, and synthesise web resources. Many thanks to my co-authors at the OU (Bart and Karen), Maastricht (Dirk,…
Exciting news, Karen Littleton and I have just had our paper ‘Socialising Epistemic Cognition’ accepted for publication in Educational Research Review, (5 year impact factor > 5). People who know me will know I’m not particularly effusive about lots of…
A significant area of research for me over the last 5 years has been in the exploration of ‘searching to learn’ – how students use of search engines can be educational in nature. The ability to find and evaluate information…
As I’m interested in search engines, and how people’s information seeking casts a lens on their understanding and evaluation of the problem, I’ve been interested in games based around search engines. These games sometimes (more or less deliberately) help people…
The second (and final) publication from my MPhil should be out in the next few months at Technology, Pedagogy, and Education (TPE). The journal irritatingly has an 18 month embargo, so the full record is freely available on ORO but…
Yesterday morning I had a chat with Matt Kennedy, one of the folks behind TrailBlazer, a browser addon which creates a visual navigation trail as you search and browse the web, which got some coverage in Wired a few months…
At LAK15 I’m co-organising a workshop on the temporal aspect of learning and its analysis. The (2 page) proceedings piece is now live on ORO: “It’s About Time: 4th International Workshop on Temporal Analyses of Learning Data“. The workshop’s organised…
I recently found myself on a journal website – looked all good, but it was published by a nutrition organisation. In the UK ‘nutritionist’ isn’t a terribly well regarded title (certainly no protection) so I wondered how I could check…
This was put together in a fairly short timeframe for an EPSRC/Technology Strategy Board competition, with a bit longer (and some tech-support…I made the foolish mistake of a) screencasting and b) committing the video to the new Windows Movie Maker…
Dan Russell recently posted this TEDx talk on ‘the revolution in asking & answering questions’ (see Dan’s blog on it). It’s a fun watch, and interesting to see someone I’ve (briefly) met do this kind of talk – it’s a…
New upload on ORO today linked to my talk in Amsterdam. Knight, Simon (2014). Finding knowledge – what is it to ‘know’ when we search? In: König, René and Rasch, Miriam eds. Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web…
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