WEEK 11

Week 11 is an over view of data, information and knowledge. The usual quiz is offered in the first slide then information on the topic is offered.

In todays lecture we looked at data information and knowledge.
In our lecture today we were given definitions these were:

Datum: A fact or proposition

Information: A collection of facts and data that relates to one another

Knowledge: The sum of range of what was been perceived, discovered or learned

The characteristics of Data Knowledge and Information are:

Data: Factual, non judgemental, non inferential, has no meaning has no intrinsic.."meaning"

Information: Summitive, relational, dimensional, permanent, has meaning, uncertain value

Knowledge: Inferential, experimental, judgemental, subjective, very valuable

Overall our lecture defined each of these words down.We were given definitions and examples of the words above.

WORKSHOP

In our tutorial today we had to look up definitions on the web for the following words.

Data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

I looked up Google and looked for definitions. I found the exercise quite fun because it was easy.

Data:

* A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"

Information:

* A message received and understood
* A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"
* Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the receiver

Knowledge:

* Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief and wisdom.
Is built up from interaction with the world, and is organised and stored in each individuals mind

Wisdom:

* Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
* Wisdom is the ability, developed through experience, insight and reflection, to discern truth and exercise good judgment.

The understanding of these four thoughts assist students in their university studies and work because they all relate and need one another. For example you need information to be able to expand knowledge and knowledge leads to wisdom. As a student you gain a lot of understanding and knowledge from reasearching, studying, reviewing lecture notes or practicing questions. You then apply all this knowledge and understanding in your every day life.
For example when you are doing your work, you first gain information after getting the right information, this leads you with knowing what you will be talking about. Later on in life you will look back and come to know that you have a great wisdom because you have done you information intake and know exactly what you are on about and that is having wisdom. Data and information are both alike and link with one another because data and information is having a bunch of facts, wisdom and knowledge is when you apply them to your own life.

The five organisations that collect information from their clients or the public include:
* Facebook·
* Ebay·
* Optus·
* Channel 7 news·
* Telstra clients.

The other task asked students to use the lecture slides and search the web for alternative ways to represent these terms. Use the drawing toolbar in MS Word to create a graphical representation of these terms. The following graph shown was provided for students to view during the lecture.

Reading One:

http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

The article found on this web site is about the four terms that we looked at during our lecture and tutorial. The article provided definitions in more detail.

It talks about
:· Definition of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom·
Relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom

This website is trustworthy since there is an author’s name . The site also provides the viewers with writer’s contact detail, so if anyone who wishes to get in touch with the writer could write to him/her. Therefore the content is not a spoof. It was copywrited in 2004, which is four years ago, therefore the information can still be used and is appropriate. References are also included at the end of the page, this is for readers to get further information on a certain topic.

Reading Two:

http://otec.uoregon.edu/data-wisdom.htm

This website provides interactive easy to follow tutorials on the term knowledge. These tutorials leak information on topics such as:

* The production of Knowledge
* The organization of Knowledge

The website has pre-tests, lessons, quizzes and assignments. It is another form of education and it is produced to assist students at Spring Hill College. Though anyone else can visit this site as its great and educational. It was last updated on the 29th of July 2002. Its still not bad, because the information is still important and reliable.