Audience Comments Debate number 2

Three examples;

Police as Therapists

Knowledge and Learning (how to we define)

We don't have to nail the answer

Challenges to education

Can we trust learners?

often about elites preventing access to education so we mustnt give too much to Andrew Keen

MY-reply; comment on Open Science movement; science itself may be excluding access by changing the way science is presented.

Keen is important; we are all learners but not all learners are the same. Web 2.0 might change that but we must blur distinction between teachers and learners.

Technologies change our relationship with knowledge and how you can come to know it

Is there a shared understanding of knowledge in the room?

Knowledge by description and by acquaintance

Democratisation and non-democratisation of knowledge

Multiple debates and meanings in the room we need a longer debate on this

We need to be teaching ways of thinking

Musn't just focus on users

?Qualititative or quantitative?

I think we are developing new mental models...

Multiplicities of knowledge and knowledge experts, how do they teach and represent what they know?

So knowledge construction is an artefact through which understanding can be shared

The issue is about new ways of representing when people cannot articulate but can present; it is not the knowledge but the developing of knowledge

How can we build an educational system to get access to knowledge when we need to keep the elite who can get at the peaks of knowledge?

Assessment and it's relationship to skills

Move to knowledge and understanding through our everyday lives.

Brown commissioned Stern and Leitch to discuss 2020 and changing the knowledge base of the country, but they didn't talk to each other; in fact knowledge management isn't joined up socially whereas web 2.0 lets us link and deepen up our understanding.

"Knowledge is knowing how the world works" involves abstraction but Digital Technology doesnt invlove abstraction. Nonetheless huge opportunities to engage with abstraction through bumping into digital tools, cameras, synthesisers.

Rose to close thank you to all our speakers and contributors. Knowledge is a complex concept and I know that we have only scratched the surface here this evening. We need to keep the debate going. I do trust learners but I also believe they need other more able learning partners and teachers to open up their horizons and to challenge them to achieve new understanding. I worry about the increasing mis-use of the word "knowledge" it is far too often used when what is being talked about is information.