PART 1 --- An experiment: Individual vs. Social
We did an experiment in the last
class, which is about the different of individual cognition and social
cognition.
First we read a part of paper about
Social Cloud, and then gave comments and thought about questions individually.
Here are my individual answers (this is class activity one):
1. What is the definition of Social Cloud?
A Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing
relationships established between members of a social network. – Answer from the paper (Unchanged after
searching the Internet)
2. What are the possible applications of a
Social Cloud?
Social Computation Cloud, Social Storage Cloud, Social Collaborative
Cloud, Social Cloud for Public Science, Enterprise
Social Cloud. –Answer from the paper
Friend
Networks,
Identification,
Data Formats – Answer from the Internet
After that, we assembled our ideas
and had a discussion on the same questions together by using a Google-doc, and finally
we got the answers of the same questions, I also changed my answers and listed them
(this is class activity two):
1. What is the definition of Social Cloud?
A Social Cloud is a scalable computing environment in
which virtualized resources contributed by users are dynamically provisioned
amongst a group of friends or colleagues. – Collect from group members
2. What are the possible applications of a
Social Cloud?
Social Computation Cloud, Social Storage Cloud, Social Collaborative
Cloud, Social Cloud for Public Science, Enterprise
Social Cloud. – Keep unchanged.
PART 2 --- Behind the experiment: A change of epistemic aim
Actually, we only changed a little
about the two answers after discussion, but even a little change makes a big
difference, and the difference is included in our Group doc, instead of listing
our answers and voting for the best one, we gave comments to other member’s
answers or gave comments to comments, searched for references and evidences and
absorbed ideas from others, even one of the group members listed the definition
and applications of Cloud Computing (P.S. This concept a little-bit overlaps
the concept of social cloud). It seems that our epistemic aim was changing
trough the discussion. Take myself as an example, in activity one, I was concentrated
on the paper in order to understand the concept, so in this part, my main
epistemic aim was to answer the two questions, so my answers mainly based on
the paper, in other word, I used functions of cognition and metacognition at
that time and never in touch with the Epistemic Cognition level. But when
editing the Google doc (Activity two), I seldom considered the content of the
paper but focus on the other’s answers and comments to improve my knowledge of
Social Cloud by gong through the references giving by others and writing down
my own opinions, this is something about higher levels of cognition. And my epistemic
aim totally changed.
PART 3 --- Conclusion
Using social ways to do idea
generation and knowledge management is more effective. And it is more likely to
‘Think out of box’ by discussion in a social network environment because our epistemic aim changed a lot.
As you mentioned in the last conclusion, Using social ways to do idea generation and knowledge management is more effective . Nowadays, the collaboration is more and more important in our learning and communication. In terms of the epistemological. Behavior, I think with the help of the group, we can get more understand .
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned in your article,even changing a little about the two answers after group discussion,it has made a big difference.It happened to my group too.Although these questions are not difficult to get from individual work,group study gives us much more.In the modern world,cooperation with others is very important.
ReplyDeleteI think most of us agree that group discussion can help a lot. My group discussion help me better understand the social could. But I still have a question, discuss face to face or on the Internet, which one is better? I perfer to discuss face to face. what about you?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, discuss face to face is more efficient in most cases because all the members concerntrate on the topic. However I still think discussing on-line is better, for the reason it is a more open way because very likely people may say something that they would not say in a real world when discussion online. In addition, when we're having a mindstorming, I think an on-line environment may make you think outside the box much easier.
DeleteOh,I find we have the same action in group discussion. After we all put our answers in the Google doc, I just consider the work what others have done, and never care the article given by teacher again.I agree your point that it is something higher level cognition, which is much more efficient than we answer the question indivisualy.
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