Some nice videos on the Network of Programs in the Learning Sciences (NAPLES) website: Bill Sandoval giving a great account of situated epistemic cognition, and why epistemic cognition is such an important area of research for the learning sciences Then…
Over the last week I’ve been in Boulder, Colorado for the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). I was over co-chairing a workshop on ‘Learning Analytics for Learning and Becoming in Practice’, and giving a talk on ‘Epistemic…
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 wonder if there’s something interesting in epistemic cognition and the ways people mislead/lie (along the same lines as I wonder about how people deal with the “when no answer is answer enough” issue). Misleading, lying, bullshitting, the specific ways…
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…
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…
Here’s an area for epistemic cognition research, when do people take the lack of response to be a response in itself? That is, when do they assume (positive) knowledge of something from the lack of results returned from queries on…
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…
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,…
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