In this blog, I will answer the questions
that the teacher left to us in the last lecture.
Questions from the paper:
Q1 Include the answers
to both questions in Class Activity One and Two. The questions are:
1)
What is the definition of
Social Cloud?
2)
What are the possible
applications of a Social Cloud?
Answer:
Activity
One (individual part):
1)
A Social Cloud is a resource and
service sharing framework utilizing relationships established between members
of a social network.
2)
The applications can be: Social
Storage, Public Science, Enterprise Social Cloud.
Activity
Two (group part):
1)
A
Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing
relationships established between members of a social network.
2)
The
applications can be:
a)
A Social Computation Cloud;
b)
A Social Storage Cloud;
c)
A Social Collaborative Cloud;
d)
A Social Cloud for Public
Science;
e)
A Social Cloud for Enterprise;
Q2: What was the
epistemic aims in (1) Class Activity One (individual work) and (2) Class
Activity Two (group work)? Is there any change in epistemic aim? If so, why did
you change your aims?
Answer:
In Activity one, I just want to answer the
teacher’s questions as quickly as possible and I neglected some parts of the
article that I suppose to be little help. While in the group work, even each of
us had found the answers by ourselves. We still want to know the answers from
others and learn from them. We collaborated together to finish our work. The
group work was better than the individual one.
Maybe the fun of collaboration makes me
change my epistemic aim. Group work is much more fun than the individual work
and I can learn from the others at the same time.
Q3: Is there any
differences in terms of individual and group epistemic cognition, how?
Answer:
The group epistemic cognition is diversity.
Someone in the group may have the idea that you never think of. The opinions of
everyone combined together for one question.
As I think it will be much easier to
explain this question if we have a picture, so I just draw one using Photoshop.
Even though it is not as fine as the one provided in the textbooks, this could
explain something to us.
As you can see from the picture above, each
circle represents the epistemic cognition of one person. As we can see from the
two persons, the overlap part get darker than the other place, which represents
they have the same idea in that part. While in the picture of a group of
persons, we can find that (1) The area covered is the largest of all, that is
to say we could hear more opinions from other people. (2) There are some places
has the darkest color, that represents the opinion most agreed by people. That
area of knowledge may be the most important one.
Q4: How did you
approach to the problem individually and in group, respectively? Is there any
differences in the processes involved?
Answer: Individually, I just read the whole passage and try to find the
answers. I marked some words and sentence which I thought could be useful.
While in the group part, we use the Google document to collaborate together. We
collected our marked words and sentences together and make some screen. We save
the one we all think as useful and neglected some less important parts.
Your picture about epistemic cognition is impressive and it really tells something about how a group finally gets an agreement on a specific topic.
回复删除Now I got a question here: If the group size is very large and we find that there are two or more overlap areas which are nearly as dark as each other. Then how to pick up the final answer for the group?
Thank you very for your comment.
删除Let me answer your question: This picture is just an illustration to explain the difference between individual and group epistemic cognition.In most cases,the darkest area is the most important.While sometimes it may be not.For example,the genius just take a small percentage of the whole.If there are two or more overlap areas which are nearly as dark as each other in one problem. Maybe both of them are right,maybe only one is right,or maybe neither.We could not solve only by this.
The picture you drew are so interesting and meaningful.But I do not catch the meaning why there is a circle just has one overlap with others in the last picture. Can I understand that as this person do not like group discussion and just know the information provided by only one person else？
回复删除You are right. Maybe that person may think differently with others. In most cases, that person maybe wrong and the majority is right.While if he is a gunius, maybe he is the only person who finally find the answer.
删除your pictures of "individual epistemic cognition to group epistemic cognition" is very sharp and i like the way to explain this typical question
回复删除I always believe pictures can explain concepts more clearly than words. I got the idea to drow a picture after I watched a video called "Social Networking in Plain English". This is the link: http://www.commoncraft.com . This website teaches people some new concepts by plain English and interseting videos, it's really fun to learn things by this way.
删除I like the part of your blog which explain the difference between the individual epistemic cognition and group epistemic cognition. From the figure you give, I can better understand it. It is indeed visual to get the advantage of the group collaboration.
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