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DIARY: June 27, 2001 05:08 PM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Jack Park submits article on learning by computer.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Telelearning Has Aspects that Relate to SDS and Com Metrics
........8...Organic structure is a complex subject that accomplishes


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SUBJECTS
Telelearning Advantages Disadvantages Solved by SDS
DKR Dynamic Knowledge Repository for Education
Learning Education Enlightenment Knowledge Wisdom Intelligence Contex
Education Advantages Telelearning Internet
Education Communication on Leadership, Salesmanship, Winning People O
Education Primary Secondary Learning SD Improves Memory Cause and Eff
Education Change Paradigm to Continual Learning Making Connections Ca
SDS Intelligence Improves Education Learning
Telelearning Education on Internet Problems Solved by SDS
Education Learning Ability is Key Attribute of Successful Executives

2812 -    ..
2813 - Summary/Objective
2814 -
281401 - Follow up ref SDS B4  A581, ref SDS 65 5933.
281402 -
281403 - Jack provides an article that explains issues that arise using the
281404 - Internet for education under the term "telelearning."  SDS improves
281405 - education by improving alphabet technology, which is the core of
281406 - learning that drives civilization, and enables moving beyond IT to a
281407 - culture of knowledge. ref SDS 0 5Q5H SDS improves education both with
281408 - and without using the Internet, because SDS augments intelligence that
281409 - adds value to the Internet.
281410 -
281411 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to OHS/DKR team, thanking Jack for his letter
281412 - drawing attention to issues related to using SDS, ref SDS 0 OK6O, and
281413 - provided information in POIMS and NWO that explain organic structures
281414 - in relation to Ontology, which Jack requested on 010622. ref SDS 0
281415 - UQ4F
281416 -
281417 -
281418 -
281419 -
2815 -
2816 -
2817 - Progress
2818 -
281801 -  ..
281802 - Telelearning Has Aspects that Relate to SDS and Com Metrics
281803 - ..
281804 - Follow up ref SDS B4  A581, ref SDS 65 5933.
281805 -
281806 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Jack Park providing an excerpt from an
281807 - article on the Internet.....
281808 -
281809 -
281810 -     http://www.css.sfu.ca/update/vol6/6.3-trouble-in-paradise.html
281811 -
281812 -
281813 - ...dated September 1994 and issued by.....
281814 -
281815 -             Published by The Centre For Systems Science
281816 -             Simon Fraser University
281817 -             Burnaby, BC Canada V5A 1S6 604-291-3455
281818 -             Editor: Barry Shell
281819 -             shell@cs.sfu.ca
281820 -
281821 -
281822 - ....and explaining ideas on teaching and learning using the Internet
281823 - instead of attending conventional classroom lectures.  Follows up
281824 - Jack's paper on using collaboration, Topic Maps and IBIS to advance
281825 - education, reviewed on 010223. ref SDS 96 JQ4K
281826 -
281827 - On 000212 Eric Armstrong's letter explained Doug's goal for OHS/DKR to
281828 - support an education, learning and training environment, called a NIC.
281829 - ref SDS 52 4380  On 000306 Eric supported this idea. ref SDS 58 0741
281830 - ..
281831 - Today, Jack submits in his email a list of issues cited in the
281832 - article that arise using the Internet for what is termed.....
281833 -
281834 -
281835 -                        telelearning
281836 -
281837 -
281838 - ....and which, also, arise to some degree using SDS on the Internet,
281839 - and which, further, are solved by SDS that enables a culture of
281840 - knowledge, as related in the record on 010614 citing SDS advantages
281841 - for advancing education, ref SDS B4  A581, which are independent of the
281842 - Internet.  On 970328 USACE reported SDS adds "intelligence" to
281843 - information based on experience using SDS without the Internet.
281844 - ref DRP 6 6172  On 971021 it was decided to port SDS to the Internet
281845 - for delivering intelligence anytime, anywhere. ref SDS 32 9999  A few
281846 - months later work was initially accomplished on 971206. ref SDS 33
281847 - 0001  It took another year or so to work out technical deployment
281848 - issues.
281849 -
281850 - Jack's letter today raises social deployment issues that are solved by
281851 - SDS, primarily because the primary benefits of SDS are not based on
281852 - using the Internet, but come from augmenting intelligence, which is
281853 - the underlying resource for learning.
281854 -
281855 - Jack's letter says using the Internet for education causes.....
281856 -
281857 -  1.  Richness of interaction is lost......
281858 -
281859 -      •  <QZ4M People are concerned about appearance instead of
281860 -         substance. ref DRT 1 YS6I
281861 -
281862 -            This aligns with problem SDS solves, cited in POIMS.
281863 -            ref OF 2 0959  However, the author on the Telelearning
281864 -            article fails to identify and solve the underlying problem
281865 -            that causes people to value style over content.
281866 -
281867 -            Human biology is wired to value appearance of information
281868 -            because visual stimulus primarily occurs in the moment,
281869 -            which is critical to make a sale, to get people to say
281870 -            "yes." see POIMS, ref OF 2 ST8M, and NWO. ref OF 4 2732
281871 -
281872 -            A culture of knowledge, however, enables accurate
281873 -            understanding and maintains shared meaning of cause and
281874 -            effect over time, so that people are not led down the wrong
281875 -            path, and so that, having said "yes," the correct work will
281876 -            get done correctly, on time and within budget. on 890809.
281877 -            ref SDS 5 CJ9J
281878 -
281879 -            On 960103 executives make decisions based on style, because
281880 -            there is not enough time to understand content. ref SDS 24
281881 -            8409
281882 -
281883 -               [On 010628 example of bumbling from reliance on style
281884 -               rather than content. ref SDS C3  KB6N
281885 -
281886 -      •  Without facial expressions, voice intonations, or gestures,
281887 -         relationships can be strange; jokes and irony can lead to
281888 -         misunderstandings. The distancing safety of the medium can
281889 -         promote casual inflammatory and hurtful remarks. ref DRT 1
281890 -         TZ6N
281891 -
281892 -            SDS solves this problem by supplementing traditional direct
281893 -            communication, rather than avoiding it.
281894 -
281895 -            So, people can attend class, a meeting, or professional
281896 -            conference, or do something else, and in all cases learning
281897 -            will strengthened by adding intelligence to the work, for
281898 -            the reasons on 010614. ref SDS B4  LO4N
281899 -
281900 -
281901 -      •  Participants feel inhibited because their words are preserved
281902 -         forever in a computer database with the potential for unknown
281903 -         future use by others, perhaps out of context. Who owns your
281904 -         commentary and who has control over it's future use? The
281905 -         student or the teacher? What about intellectual property
281906 -         rights? ref DRT 1 IL7K
281907 -
281908 -            "The moving writes writes, and once has writ moves on, and
281909 -            all tears nor all they piety can wash away a word of it."
281910 -
281911 -            The same goes for the spoken word.
281912 -
281913 -            Spoken words are taken out of context, and are incorrectly
281914 -            conveyed due to meaning drift, see POIMS ref OF 2 TJ6I  SDS
281915 -            supports command and control of the record so that context is
281916 -            maintained. see POIMS, ref OF 2 1113
281917 -
281918 -            Life is full of dilemmas:  if we act we get tired and die, and
281919 -            if don't act we die of hunger and thirst.  Some people are
281920 -            emboldened by the seeming remoteness of communicating through
281921 -            the Internet, while others are worried about a permanent
281922 -            record.  Fear of accountability encourages care in capturing
281923 -            organizational memory to avoid risk of error that causes harm.
281924 -
281925 -            Worry about ownership of property rights is offset by
281926 -            increased quality of reasoning by adding "intelligence" to
281927 -            traditional information available from education. see POIMS.
281928 -            ref OF 2 6649
281929 -
281930 -
281931 -      •  Large telelearning classes force users to follow gigantic
281932 -         discussions requiring a tremendous amount of reading in
281933 -         addition to the class reading list. Heavy required searching
281934 -         and browsing of virtually infinite online resources can also
281935 -         be overwhelming. ref DRT 1 TN8I
281936 -
281937 -            Information overload is solved by SDS adding intelligence
281938 -            to information that produces knowledge needed to take
281939 -            effective action.
281940 -
281941 -            Since much of traditional education does not entail taking
281942 -            action on learning, until years later, when lessons have
281943 -            long since faded, SDS affords students a powerful new
281944 -            learning aid that uses traceability to original sources to
281945 -            discover how learning impacts daily life.
281946 -
281947 -            How does what the teacher presented today, align with the
281948 -            assigned text; how does it align with a lecture yesterday,
281949 -            last week and last year, in another class, with outside
281950 -            reading, discussion with other students, and with daily
281951 -            experience?  Discovering chronologies of cause and effect,
281952 -            observing meaning drift, and identifying organic structure
281953 -            of knowledge, see below, ref SDS 0 UQ4F, strengthens
281954 -            learning by making every day, every class, every lecture,
281955 -            everything, a "case study."  On 000227 Eric Armstrong
281956 -            reported case studies aid learning, but are hard to
281957 -            organize. ref SDS 55 0786  SDS makes this easier.
281958 -
281959 -  ..
281960 -      •  Limited tools for linking, relating comments, references, and
281961 -         ideas; and poor mechanisms for viewing and manipulating these
281962 -         linkages, or making decisions online. Also international
281963 -         standards for graphics and sounds are only just emerging.
281964 -         ref DRT 1 MV9F
281965 -
281966 -            SDS makes linking to comments, references and ideas fast
281967 -            and easy.  In addition, SDS provides an environment that
281968 -            places everything in the context of chronology that conveys
281969 -            cause and effect, i.e., reasoning, and it supports fast,
281970 -            flexible structure and organization that make looking at
281971 -            pictures useful. see POIMS. ref OF 2 M17I
281972 -
281973 -            Using SDS sets a new standard for "intelligence" and
281974 -            learning technologies.  On 000709 Bill DeHart reported this
281975 -            saves time and money getting work done. ref SDS 81 PQ6G On
281976 -            010517 Pat Lincoln at SRI observed this method, ref SDS A8
281977 -            FH9O, and indicated it solves an important computer science
281978 -            objective. ref SDS A8  TY7F
281979 -
281980 -
281981 -  ..
281982 -  1.  The key is to facilitate collaborative learning:
281983 -
281984 -         Focus on collaboration aligns with Jack's paper on 010223
281985 -         proposing collaboration, topic maps and IBIS. ref SDS 96 JQ4K
281986 -
281987 -         SDS augments intelligence, which is a predicate to effective
281988 -         collaboration. ref OF 2 0367
281989 -
281990 -         Collaboration requires organizational memory, which SDS
281991 -         supports.
281992 -
281993 -         The other guidelines must all be tailored to each class, and
281994 -         so are useful for fine tuning an online course based on the
281995 -         subject, makeup of the class with respect to age, culture and
281996 -         socio-economic issues. ref DRT 1 XL4I
281997 -
281998 -  ..
281999 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 linked to this record, and responding to
282000 - Jack's letter received, per above. ref DRT 1 0001
282001 -
282002 -       [On 010716 submitted follow up letter to Jack. ref SDS C4  895G
282003 -
282004 - Cited....
282005 -
282006 -    1.  Work on 010614 explains SDS supports intelligence, ref DIT 1
282007 -        0001, that converts information into knowledge. ref SDS B4  2J5H
282008 -        ..
282009 -    2.  001126 Eugene Kim proposed using IT with greater
282010 -        diligence to accomplish SDS, ref DIT 1 IK7J, but this does not
282011 -        convert information into knowledge. ref SDS 90 QW8I
282012 -        ..
282013 -    3.  Culture of knowledge moves beyond IT, ref DIT 1 IK7J,
282014 -        improves education, called out in the letter to SRI on 001011.
282015 -        ref SDS 85 3Y2P
282016 -        ..
282017 -    4.  Education is critical to KM, ref DIT 1 SP8N, mentioned on
282018 -        000301 in a letter to Doug Engelbart, ref SDS 56 0001, and many
282019 -        more times over the past year, most recently on 010614 in the
282020 -        letter to Jack. ref SDS B4  2J5H  Earlier on 000920 importance
282021 -        of education was cited. ref SDS 84 2V5F
282022 -
282023 -    5.  On 010619 proposal to DCMA shows need for professional research
282024 -        to deploy SDS, ref DIT 1 SP8N, for implementing Com Metrics that
282025 -        supports KM. ref SDS B9  GZ5F
282026 -
282027 -    6.  SDS supports education with better listening and learning,
282028 -        ref DIT 1 WI4H, and from thinking and doing things, ref OF 2
282029 -        2049, explained in POIMS. ref OF 2 3742
282030 -
282031 -    7.  SDS improves information technology, and so can be used in many
282032 -        ways, therefore benefits can be improved through education that
282033 -        teaches good practice based on experience. ref DIT 1 VL5K
282034 -
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2821 -

SUBJECTS
Ontology Organization Process Subjects Topics Categories Classficatio
Ontology is Words and Phrases in Common Use
Organic Subject Structure Like Alphabet Accounting DNA
Organic Structure Alphabet Assembles Small Meanings into the "Big Pic
Organic Structure Balance with Flexibility
Organic Structures Greater Control Microcosm of Details Improves Prod
Organic Structure Drilling into Microcosm Details Improved by SDS

4710 -
471001 -  ..
471002 -
471003 -
471004 -        8.  Organic structure is a complex subject that accomplishes
471005 -            "ontology" ideas, ref DIT 1 EO6H, which Jack asked about in
471006 -            a letter on 010622. ref SDS C2  S63L
471007 -
471008 -            POIMS explains organic subject structures. ref OF 2 1110
471009 -
471010 -            NWO explains organic structures of knowledge is like DNA.
471011 -            ref OF 4 5846
471012 -
471013 -            POIMS and NWO both reference work on 890523. ref SDS 3 SQ5L
471014 -            The record on 910221 explains organic structures for
471015 -            subjects are similar to alphabet technology that uses the
471016 -            same method for generating information. ref SDS 6 RR5I
471017 -
471018 -               [On 010716 explain in a post script of a letter to Jack
471019 -               risk of complexity and meaning drift in relation to
471020 -               organic structures that can grow into critical mass of
471021 -               error that explodes. ref SDS C4  5E4L
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4711 -