Blog for week 11

Lecture Summary:

Week 11's lecture was all about data, information and knowledge. Data meaning a fact or proposition, the information being a collection of data or facts that can relate to one another in some way and knowledge being what you have learnt, discovered, or percieve to know. Throughout the lecture we learnt that to be knowledgeable in an area so you have to start off with a good amount of solid data then build your way up.

Tutorial Summary:
Based on your research, define data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Data is like research that you have collected. Once you know what it is you are after then the data searching can begin, such as facts, figuers etc. This will then give you grounds on which you can back your arguement up or findings. Information is when you have collected significant amounts of data and begin to bring it all together so that everything makes sense. From this structure will emerge and conclusion/s can be drawn. Knowledge is when you make your own judgements based from the reasearch you have done and the conlusions that have been made from this. Data is interpreted differently and you are able to develop you own understanding of the topic at hand. Wisdom is at the top of the peak and is when from your own reasearch and understanding of the topic you can then draw up your own data for people to understand and look off.

How can the understanding of the relationship between data, information and knowledge assist your university study?

The relationship between the three can assist in univeristy study because of the fact that you can not just have one and not the others. To have good data you need information and kowledge. To have good knowledge you need data and information.

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List 5 organizations that collect information from their clients or the public. Why do they collect this information?

1. Edith Cown University



2. Various companies that have many people who work for them



3. Restaraunts



4. Toystores



5. Car manufacture's

They collect this data so they can get feedback on what can be improved and what changes should be made, if any at all.

Reading 1 Summary: http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

This reading explains and goes through the understandings of data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. These three are essential to the making up of knowledge management. Information answers the "who", "what", "when", and "where" where as knowledge answers the "how" in questions. The understanding part is interpreted as "why" and then once all known, then this equates to wisdom.

Reading 2 Summary: http://otec.uoregon.edu/data-wisdom.htm

This reading is an instructional resource designed to assist students comprehend information literacy skills. The tests up on this website will help students assess their knowledge before beginning one of the tutorials on the website. There is a quiz for each lesson looked at which will test your understanding of the information which is presented to the students. The website focuses alot on knowledge and the production of it and organization of knowledge.