Non-Knowledge; is Science different?
A presentation by Eileen Scanlon
Scientific Issues in Non-Knowledge
- Focus on school level teaching and informal contexts "Science Studies"
- Is there a distinction between science knowledge and all other knowledge?
Is web 2.0 science making this different?
- ?traditional view of science communication?
- Will social networking affect the ways in which informal settings might afffect citizens
- Traditional Science "put some scientific knowledge into the knowledge repository";
- Bruno Latour; "ready-made science" and "science in the making" (different as the two sides of Janus - Latour 1987)
- Traditional models of science; learning about science of learning science?
- Issues in Peer Review; this is how you get knowledge in the Repository
- Internet affecting this process, you can go public earlier
- Why do some ideas take off and some not?
- Dont romanticise knowledge production in science!
Web 2.0: greater use to share and create information
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BOUNDARIES OF EXPERTISE IS being tested in a more Open Review process, greater sharing of data.
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See also science blogging will it save science journalism? See nature.com and key dates (web 2.0 2007)
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Second Nature is Nature on Second Life!
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The context of delivering, say a Masters in Science, is changing dramatically
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Do we need a Science 2.0 which is more about open review and open editing?
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Environmentalism on the Web; a lot on infomal learning about science
Conclusions
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Opportunities for formal and informal learning on the web without a teacher is "well resourced"
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How can resources be evaluated?
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Teaching resources available on YouTube
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Could be beneficial to understand the processes by which knowledge is constructed or at least communicated
Debate
We can say that science is not that different.
Is web 2.0 qualitively different? Probably, in terms of collaboration and sharing. e-science might be affecting this!
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