Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Before and After Learning

Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Before and After Learning
The Taxonomy
Of
Education?
The #Folksonomy
Of
Learning?
OR

Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Thinking Fast & Slow
}Education } Learning
}Education } Learning
} Learning
} Learning

Data – beginning
Information - aggregated
Knowledge – useful
Wisdom – finally…
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Frames; Thinking Fast & Slow

Data is any simplified, irreducible
point of reference (in quantum
terms a particle)
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Data

Information is a curated collection of data
where the curation isn’t contested. This is
often taken as being common sense.
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Information

Thinking Fast & Slow
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Data & Information are “fast” &
dialectical
Knowledge & Wisdom are “slow” &
dialogical

Knowledge represents reflections on this
curated information where the frame has
been subjected to critical reflection &
evaluated in some way
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Knowledge

Wisdom is hard earned experiential
reflections (often counter intuitive)
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Wisdom

Thinking Fast
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
All cultures transmit “fast” information
(in order to reproduce themselves)

Thinking Slow
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
All cultures need “slow” wisdom
in order to evolve…
We are an emergent species not a
manufactured one

Data: unframed
Information: framed
Knowledge: reframed
Wisdom before & after
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Thinking Fast & Slow

Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Before and After Framing

Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Before and After Framing
Smart Phones make
you Dumb Terminals…

Education is just a…
temporarily useful
eccentricity
To help us discover our learning

Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Thinking Fast & Slow
}Education } Learning
}Education } Learning
} Learning
} Learning

A History of Education in 12 dates
500 BC – Platos Academy; learning as oral discussion (pre-texts)
800 AD – Arab Universities & Communities of Scholars
1000 AD – City universities Paris/Bologna & Oxford
C12th – Renaissance; Liberal Arts Curriculum… then a Masters
1535 – The Republic of Letters (Erasmus) critical discussions
1660 – The Royal Society (chartered thinking)
1751 – Encyclopédie (Great Man authorship)
1830 – Prussian Education System (nation-building)
1914 – A Dominies Log (reflective blog – BSSRES)
1944 – Butler Education Act (education for all to O/A Level)
1986 – Thatcher National Curriculum (stop the Sixties!)
1997 – National Grid for Learning, FERL, Community Learning Grids