Networked Knowledge Activities

 Before this class, I had never heard of networked knowledge activities before. If I had to guess what this term means, I would have said that it is learning and doing activities in your personal network (whether online or in person). Dr. Dennen (n.d.) points out that there are six core networked knowledge activities: collect, curate, share, broker, negotiate, and construct. Dr. Dennen and other authors from FSU (2020) stated that these activities would usually co-exist and not be in isolation. While I may have never heard of these activities or the "networked knowledge activities" term before, I am sure that I have used the core concepts before. 

The first core activity is collect. We all collect things in order to learn information. For example, I collect historical documents to learn more about my family history. Students may collect articles for an upcoming research paper. We collect our things using a variety of tools such as Facebook, Pinterest, Google, or various news articles. After collecting our information, we can curate it or organize the information into a collection. Back to my family genealogy reference, my documents that I collect are then curated by person on Ancestry.com. This makes it easier when I am looking for a specific person or a document related to that person. After learning is curated, it should be share. We can share information in a variety of ways through social media or PowerPoint presentations. By sharing the information, it is allowing others to learn new information they may not have known. After sharing is broker. Dr. Dennen (n.d.) refers knowledge brokering as "the act of connecting groups or networks via knowledge transmission" (p. 6). I do not remember a time where I have necessarily used knowledge brokering before. The next core network knowledge activity is negotiate. This is when learners work together to agree. Students may use this core concept when working in group projects and they need to negotiate what information will be shared to the class. The last activity is construct which is when learning is made new. I always think of this as when I am creating something, what do I want my audience to take from what I have created. You always want the audience to learn something. 

While I may not have known what the term "networked knowledge activities" was before this class, I am certain that I have used these activities and concepts before. It is interesting to see how each concept plays a role in knowledge and learning. 

References

Dennen, V. P. (n.d.). Networked knowledge activities. Social Media for Active Learning

Dennen, V. P., Word, K., Adolfson, D., Arechavaleta, V., He, D., Hsu, C., Jung, D., Kent, H., Russell, A.,

& Toth, K. (2020). Using the networked knowledge activities framework to examine learning on social networking sites. Proceedings of the International Conference on Web-based Communities and Social Media. 

Comments

  1. Candace DentonJune 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM

    Hi Lauren, I also was unfamiliar with the networked knowledge activities before this course. It was an interesting read. I enjoyed reading your different approach, as I also discussed the topic in my blog, but from a different approach. In mine, I focused on a specific application, Goodreads, whereas in yours, it was more from a student and personal approach.

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