Epistemic Cognition

A presentation by Katerina Avramides (an outline)

Topics

Knowledge Validation

Knowledge Validation and Technology

An Educational Perspective 

The Learner-Generated Challenge 

An Example

Presentation (power point slides)

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Discussion

• Yes technology does proliferate non-knowledge!
• But what is knowledge validation?
• From an educational perspective what is the challenge of learner-generated?
• "learners need to construct knowledge whilst also learning how to construct it" - what questions to ask?

Address this challenge

• Learners need support
• Technology can help; what role can it provide?
• Gives initiative to learner
• BUT need a conception of learning
• Example from HE-Psychology: given a start question, add information as nodes to get to the answer.
• Are they sources of information or are they thinking processes they have to go through?
• The example shows how a learning path can scaffold a learning process so that the learner has deeper understanding of the subject they are working through.
• This created a debate on what the presentation was saying.

Katerina; you need to scaffold the learning process with tools so that learners understand what knowledge construction is

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