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)
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