Re – Aloudget rid of info as skills – it is more info as tools (application), info as participation (engagement), etc. Skills is understanding the information and applying it within the conceptualization. participation is learning the community; collaboration is negotiating and sharing information, extending knowledge. inspiration has a property of resonance.
Teens engage in information practices to become legitimate peripheral participants in digital content sharing communities, the process of experiencing information to participate in these communities leads to one becoming information literate within this particular socio-cultural context. Teens experience information through participatory activities such as observation, posting, and commenting. They use the information they experience as [...]
Not all interaction is collaboration; sometimes it is about using people as tools. Distributed knowledge?
theo memo graphic of experiences
You are supposed to write a theoretical memo when a thought strikes you. Unfortunately I had a couple of thoughts while I was in the hot tub which is not conducive to writing theoretical memos. Actually a lot of my thoughts come in the shower or the hot tub – this causes some difficulties. Anyways [...]
If you think I have gone away I haven’t. I have been a) writing an article which took most of my writing energy; b) thinking – I cannot stress how important this is; and c) working – last semester kicked my butt. But I am back! Here is the latest: I have emerging in my [...]
My definition of information practices keeps coming up – how am I defining practices. Some of this arises from the feeling that I may be forcing data into an existing theory – and that I am locating it more within the information behaviors paradigm. I think that I struggle with the problem that while I [...]
Yesterday during a discussion surrounding coding and the process of coding – particularly in grounded theory a question occurred to me – in open coding do you code with your research question in mind so that you are theoretically sensitive to the question in the data or do you just “code what you see”? I’ll [...]
I had a conversation this weekend with the Physics teacher about how I am struggling to identify and capture the practice of serendipitous encounter and musing. The primary problem is that there are two practices that can occur when one comes across data that ‘speaks to’ them in a manner that causes them to internalize [...]
