But first ...

• Draft of major project report due next week
• TLP Seminar on Friday, 1:30pm, Room 242:
• Project progress reports - general points
  • "the end (of the semester) is near"
  • focus
  • be sure to include an evaluative component
• no FTF office hour Monday (I'll be at AERA in Montreal Monday-Wednesday), but I'll be checking my email - "electronic office hour"

Sense-making and Knowledge-building with the Internet

• AERA Symposium "Technology-based Tools for Learning: Analysis and synthesis in the 21st Century" next Tuesday
• Levin & Kauwell paper "Visualization of Web Based Information and Sense Making"

The Web as a Distributed Network Learning Framework

• web as a network of interlinked geographically distributed servers
• information flowing dynamically through the network
• mediator roles in determining the flow of information and the creation of structure (links) / knowledge
• incremental and distributed nature of this network learning

Spectrum of knowledge spaces

• Personal internal
• Personal external (own files)
• Narrowly shared (email to one other)
• More widely shared (email list or small group conference or web pages)
• Yet more widely shared (Intranet or larger listserve)
• Very widely shared (widely advertised and linked web pages)

Incremental construction of expert systems

• Specification of local rules (Eudora "filters", for example)
• Gradual movement of those rules outward toward where they are needed
• Standing answers
• Standing questions (agents/avatars)
• "push" technologies on the web (Pointcast, etc.)
• from procedural to object-oriented to agent-oriented
• externalization of the most routine, most boring leading to a local "expert system" assistant
• movement of that knowledge outward toward repeated requests
• movement of this knowledge as organizational learning
• "economics" of learning

For next week:

• Draft of major project reports

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