Envisioning Knowledge

2/7/2012

Questions for Reading

Envisioning Knowledge

Chapters 1, 2

Chapter 1;

1. The differences between receiving information and owing knowledge is when it comes to receiving information it refers to the things we have been taught or the things we learn on a daily basis; owing knowledge is later on being able to use the information we have just been informed about. The creation of knowledge is most likely to occur when someone has taken information and interacted with it in a meaningful way.

2. A literate thinker is a person who has the ability to decode information in an informed and analytical way in any manner of presentation. This is often incorporated as reading or working with informational or functional texts, texts designed strictly for informational or utility purposes, such as bus schedules, how-to manuals, encyclopedia entries, and scientific articles.

3. Being able to select and control the aspects of disciplinary though and language, which carry out meaning and are widely understood and used within a discipline is a aspect of what Langer used as markers.

4. An act of literacy that I have practiced would be…

Chapter 2;

1. Knowledge grows from a person’s desire to make sense, in class or in the world outside. It is an active quest that takes time, experience, and many acts of envisionments building.

2. The last time I tried to make sense of something was actually about a few days ago, when a friend of mine had this crazy theory of why someone would cheat… He said that if a person cheats 100 times and their other half took them back every time in reality they cheated but never got caught. When I heard it, it didn’t make any sense to me but I understood what he was saying but it still didn’t make it alright to cheat. I engage in the process of introverted Feeling, Sometimes, some things just have to be said.” On the other hand, most...