Towards a knowledge economy

This paper provides a preliminary formulation of a new currency based on knowledge. Through a literature review of alternative currencies, various properties and benefits are selected that we hope will enable such a currency to be created. Nowadays not only money but also knowledge is necessary to do business. For instance, knowledge about markets and consumers is highly valuable but difficult to achieve, and even more difficult to store, transport or trade. The basic premise of this proposal is a knowledge measurement pattern that is formulated as a new alternative social currency. Therefore, it is an additional means of contributing to the worldwide evolution of a knowledge society. It is intended as a currency to facilitate the conservation and storage of knowledge, and its organization and categorization, but mainly its exploitation and transference

Comprensión de lectura y metacognición en jóvenes, una herramienta para el éxito en la comprensión de lectura : estudio descriptivo exploratorio en niños de once a trece años de edad que cursan primero de bachillerato, pertenecientes al Colegio Gimnasio Los Robles de Bogota D.C.

La lectura como actividad cognitiva, implica una serie de procesos y estrategias mentales que el estudiante debe dominar, con el fin de comprender y hacer consciente estas estrategias, utilizándolas como una función instrumental para la adquisición de nuevos conocimientos que en su mayoría se manifiestan como demandas escolares. Actualmente los problemas de comprensión del lectura que presentan los estudiantes jóvenes, se deben a la falta de eficiencia en el empleo de las estrategias durante el proceso de la lectura dejando ver un aprendizaje mecánico y memorístico basado en la decodificación de signos escritos. Es así como la Metacognición se configura como una alternativa de solución, basada en el control que tiene el sujeto de sus destrezas o procesos cognitivos, de pensamiento y de la habilidad para dar y darse cuenta de estos procesos a la hora de leer, a través del manejo de estrategias para cada momento del proceso lector (Baker y Brown, 1981; Flavell, 1976). Por consiguiente el proyecto de comprensión de lectura y metacognición en jóvenes estará dirigido a la enseñanza explicita de las estrategias metacognitivas para mejorar el nivel de comprensión de lectura.

Knowledge integration within an applied mobile robot summer course

This paper presents the use of a mobile robot platform as an innovative educational tool in order to promote and integrate different curriculum knowledge. Hence, it is presented the acquired experience within a summer course named ldquoapplied mobile roboticsrdquo. The main aim of the course is to integrate different subjects as electronics, programming, architecture, perception systems, communications, control and trajectory planning by using the educational open mobile robot platform PRIM. The summer course is addressed to a wide range of student profiles. However, it is of special interests to the students of electrical and computer engineering around their final academic year. The summer course consists of the theoretical and laboratory sessions, related to the following topics: design & programming of electronic devices, modelling and control systems, trajectory planning and control, and computer vision systems. Therefore, the clues for achieving a renewed path of progress in robotics are the integration of several knowledgeable fields, such as computing, communications, and control sciences, in order to perform a higher level reasoning and use decision tools with strong theoretical base

Adding new components to the knowledge plane GMPLS over WDM networks

A recent study defines a new network plane: the knowledge plane. The incorporation of the knowledge plane over the network allows having more accurate information of the current and future network states. In this paper, the introduction and management of the network reliability information in the knowledge plane is proposed in order to improve the quality of service with protection routing algorithms in GMPLS over WDM networks. Different experiments prove the efficiency and scalability of the proposed scheme in terms of the percentage of resources used to protect the network

Context constraints, prior vocabulary knowledge and on-line inferences in reading

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Knowledge and question asking

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Talk the talk: Learner-generated podcasts as catalysts for knowledge creation

Instead of using the technology for the mere recording and dissemination of lectures and other instructor-centred information, the project reported on in this article focused on enabling students to create their own podcasts for distribution to their peers. The article describes how engaging in the podcasting exercise promoted collaborative knowledge building among the student-producers, as evidenced through focus-group interviewing and an analysis of the products of their shared dialogue and reflection.

Acknowledging knowledge: an academic guide to referencing

This guide explains why referencing in essays is so important, and provides clear examples of exactly how to reference a wide variety of sources from books to YouTube clips

The Spectrum of knowledge - starting off

A few files for background reading

Knowledge Technologies

An overview of COMP3028 Knowledge Technologies

Introduction to Knowledge Representation

Focussing on Open Data and the need for cleaning data

COMP6037 Seminar 23 10 13: Science, knowledge and technology

Set readings 1. Sismondo S. (2009). The Kuhnian revolution. In An introduction to science and technology studies. p12-22 2. Ben-David J, Sullivan T. (1975) Sociology of science. Annual Review of Sociology p203-21 3. Clarke A, Star SL. (2008) The social worlds framework: a theory/methods package. In Hackett EJ et al. The handbook of science and technology studies. Cambridge MA: MIT Press p113-137 Bonus paper (read if you have time) 4. Mitroff I. (1974). Norms and Counternorms in a Select Group of Apollo Moon Scientists. American Sociological Review 39:79-95 • Aim to ensure that you understand the core arguments of each paper • Look up/note any new terminology (and questions you want to ask) • Think about your critical appraisal of the paper (what are the merits/demerits of the argument, evidence etc) In the seminar we will spend about 5 minutes talking about each paper, and then - building on the two lectures - discuss how these ideas might be used to think about the Web and Web Science. At the end there will be some time for questions and a chance to note your key learning points.