Show What You Know: Networked Knowledge Activities
Networked knowledge activities not only enhance learning but also empower learners to take control of their educational journey. These activiites encompass a spectrum of actions where individuals interact with information and other individuals in digital environments. These activities are integral to knowledge management, communication, and creation, offering learners opportunities to engage actively in their learning process. Networked knowledge activities are not just tools for information consumption but powerful mechanisms for active learning and knowledge creation. By engaging in activities such as collecting, curating, sharing, negotiating, and constructing, learners not only deepen their understanding of content but also develop crucial skills in collaboration, critical thinking, and digital literacy. As education continues to evolve in digital spaces, embracing networked knowledge activities empowers learners to navigate and thrive in an interconnected world where information is abundant and collaboration is key.
1. Collecting: This passive activity involves gathering information from diverse sources such as bookmarking web pages, saving media, or marking items on social media. Learners collect resources either for specific projects or personal interests, benefiting from recommendations and reviews by others online.
ex: Pinning items on Pinterests
2. Curating: Unlike collecting, curation is an intentional and evaluative process where learners create organized collections of online artifacts. This involves making evaluative judgments about the relevance and quality of the content, using keywords, categories, and social ratings to enhance accessibility and utility.
ex: Creating playlists on Youtube
3. Sharing: Once information is collected or curated, learners share it with targeted audiences. This activity involves clear intent and understanding of the audience's needs, fostering effective knowledge dissemination.
ex: Posting a tweet on Twitter/X.
4. Brokering: Brokering goes beyond sharing by actively connecting different groups or networks through knowledge transmission. It involves serving as a link between knowledge sources and new groups who may find the information valuable, thereby facilitating broader knowledge exchange.
ex: Mentioning people in a tweet or tagging them in a Facebook post.
5. Negotiating: This collaborative process occurs when learners work together to interpret and agree upon the meaning of information. It involves discursive interactions aimed at synthesizing diverse perspectives into cohesive understanding.
ex: Conversations threads that develop through #hashtags or @mention and @reply features on Twitter/X.
6. Constructing: This entails creating something new based on negotiated understandings. It could involve synthesizing information into new insights, developing original ideas, or even creating multimedia projects like mashups that blend previously unrelated items into cohesive creations.
ex: Posting to Pinterest or using embeded creation tools on Youtube.
Networked knowledge activities empower learners by:
- Fostering Autonomy
- Enhancing Collaboration
- Promoting Critical Thinking
- Facilitating Connection
Thanks for sharing this summary of our key concepts for this week--I've appreciated reading different interpretations of each of these categories, as doing so brings each of these behaviors into clearer focus. For example, I have been a little bit foggy about what brokering looks like in real-world contexts, but your example of tagging a relevant group makes sense, and now I can think of specific times in my life when I have unknowingly acted as a broker. So I'm grateful for this post!
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