Last week I posted something on Educating Time. Of course one of my particular interests is information seeking and there to, temporality in search is a really interesting issue. Searching for Temporal Information Time is of course a crucial element…
This is just my stuff (video & slides) from the conference, with a twitter archive thing too, bit pushed for time but I’d encourage everyone to check out the other presentations :-). Based on my reader chapter (Translated into Russian…
I’ve had this blog sitting in draft for so long that I’ve written a paper about it in the meantime! The working copy of that paper can be found on the KMi tech report site and we welcome any comments…
Earlier this year I took the Google Advanced Power Searching with Google MOOC. For one of the assignments I did some research on a relatively long standing interest of mine – the use of internet in exams in Denmark, a…
This evening I met up with Gene Golovchinsky, of FXPAL (Fuji Xerox research institute in Palo Alto). Gene’s work is pretty varied (there was some cool stuff on collaborative whiteboards & storing/retrieving info a while ago) but a big area…
Two of my four meetings yesterday were with people at the Wikimedia Foundation (the other two were with instagrok, and google). I had a chat with Tilman Bayer about Wikimedia research, and LiAnna Davis about the WMF Education program. With…
One of the tools I’ve been most impressed by in the student-research-support space, and one which I’ve had the longest interaction with is Instagrok. Instagrok is a tool in which searches map keyterms to related concepts, and provides quick facts…
Last night I went into Google (something very surreal about saying that, and about doing a search From:”Hotel California”; To:”Google”…). Here’s a picture of me with a big google sign… Google (and other search engines)…
Recently I was asked about revamping school ICT – what technology ‘should’ we be exploring to improve pedagogy, and learning in a school. The question wasn’t about content delivery, or flashy content – but about general technology to support pedagogy…
http://www.extended-knowledge.ppls.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=163 Can I retire and just let Edinburgh get on with it? I’ve never been to Scotland….I wonder if I could visit. I wrote my MA thesis at the IoE on the implications of the extended mind thesis for how…
In the last few blogs I wrote about the problems with cognitivist models of epistemic beliefs and a discourse-oriented approach to viewing epistemic action. I also elaborated on this view in the context of discourse ‘to do’ information retrieval and…
Algorithms and big data are provocative right? Is Google personalisation a risk to our epistemic autonomy? Are recommender systems epistemically problematic in general? Is an over reliance on search engines to know what we want – even if we don’t…
Is google making me smarter, stupider, is it all just Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes and can we even trace it? Having seen yet another article on this issue, I thought I’d better have an answer – one other than just rolling my eyes. …
For formatting reasons, I’ve placed this post on a page here http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/edusearch-tips/
The new Facebook Graph search will allow users to conduct a much finer grained search across their networks than they currently can. It’s not hard to imagine how facebook & Bing’s relationship might be built on here for feeding into…
In a spark of creativity which kept me active for a while over Christmas, I had an idea about using the feedback ratings on the bottom of most Wikipedia pages as a tool to analyse the epistemic judgements on those…
Following on from my ‘Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool’ post I’m just exploring the Open University’s RISE and the related OpenURL projects both of which use log data on academic searches to provide users with article and journal level…
I’ve just read an article which explicitly considers the evaluation of search engines with respect to their epistemic functions under a social epistemological perspective. There’s a pre-print available http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/simpson/simpson_index.html and the citation is: Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool, Metaphilosophy…
Just as having students predict answers to math problems is a way of creating more meaningful learning, prediction can be a useful strategy in successful searching too. Search results can be presented any number of ways: tables and charts, videos,…
Just as having students predict answers to math problems is a way of creating more meaningful learning, prediction can be a useful strategy in successful searching too. Search results can be presented any number of ways: tables and charts, videos,…
