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…
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…
Teachers out there,what advice do u give students on discriminating between stories on web? asks @dmrussell http://t.co/BZrT2pmMl8 #edtech — Simon Knight (@sjgknight) November 16, 2013 In that case, Dan was talking about a specific case which serves as a nice…
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…
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)…
In my parallel blog I highlighted some current work in epistemic cognition and games – particularly ones I think could be fruitful for further investigation. This blog expands that, if you’re interested some of these ideas appear in a different…
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…
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…
