In the
lecture 6 of the Social Network course, our professor guided us to participant
in a class activity, which divided in 2 parts. One part is the class activity
one-A, which let us accomplish a task by ourselves. Another part is the class
activity one-B, which forced us to finish the same questions in the form of
group study. Professor let us to distinguish the differences of these 2 parts.
Class
Activity One – A
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.
2. What are
the possible applications of a Social Cloud?
A
Social Computation Cloud
A
Social Storage Cloud
A
Social Collaborative Cloud
A
Social Cloud for Public Science
An
Enterprise Social Cloud
3. What
strategies you have adopted in answering the above questions?
Firstly,
I read this paper carefully, and found some details about the definition of Social Cloud and the possible applications of a Social
Cloud.
Secondly, I
highlight the words and sentences what I think is the answer, but I don’t know
whether the answer is right or not.
Lastly, I
write down several questions I want to ask, e.g., what’s the meaning of the “volunteer computing project” in paragraph 8 and what’s the
differences between Social Computation Cloud
and Social Storage Cloud in
terms of the photo storage?
Class
Activity One – B
What
cognitive processes have you gone through at: (1) cognition level, (2)
metacognition level, and (3) epistemic cognition level?
When I
finished the task individually I think I have gone through the cognition level
and metacognition level. However, when I discussed the answer with group
members, I think I have used all the three levels.
Because
some opinions came from our members began to differ. Everyone put forward their
own theory and comment on each other's answer. One of my group member modified
my highlighted sentence and told me why I found the wrong answers. What’s more
important, in the group I can ask some questions that I wanted to ask after I
finished reading all the paper by myself. Group members were glad to answer my
questions that they knew the answer. Maybe sometime we all have no ideas about someone
questions. But we can figure out some ways to find the resource. If there’s no
group discussion, I think I can’t find these answers so fast. At the same time,
in the group I can catch the central meaning of this article more precisely.
So what
is group epistemic cognition? I think it’s an ability to learn creatively. Groups
of people can engage in activities such as mathematical problem solving and can
accomplish intellectual achievements. At the same time,
the online networks can provide active media for social group epistemic
cognition where ideas grow through the interactions within groups of people.
Above
all, I think group study is a good way to enhance our understanding of the knowledge
no matter online network or in traditional room. Group epistemic cognition can demonstrated
the importance of collaboration.
I wasn't in the same group with you, so I had no idea how you approached the questions! =(
ReplyDeleteAfter going through your blog I found put that you raised your own questions during the individual task, what a girl~ :DDDDDD
Instead of group discussion we can also learn through blogs and other social media, that's how I noticed what you behaved differently. I do appreciate your way of reading and article: understand it and dig deeper by raising questions and solve them by yourself! So niceeee!!!
haha~~~lynn,I feel so sweet to get your comment. There are a large number of ways to learn and solve problem and they can get different influences. Maybe it's the best thing to find a way to get our own cognition, no matter group-oriented or indivually, right?
DeleteAfter reading your blog, I find out there are probably two main advantages with group study. One is that group may be able to solve problems proposed by individuals, in which group could be considered as sort of resource. The other is the problem-based study deriving from different opinions of different people facilitating active learning. These really enable us to gain deeper understanding of knowledge.
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ReplyDeleteIn your blog, I got what the new air that group work brings: The step of correction by new idea; The epistemic cognition level gone through~
ReplyDeletehi,Bailu, I'm so glad to receive your comment. In the blog, I have mentioned the process that I read the paper individually. I asked few questions which I confused about. After that ,We discussed them by group.Actually, I cannot clearly distinguish which levels I have got,it's really the epistemic cognition level?
DeleteHello, Silu, I think your blog has a very clear structure for us to read. You mentioned in your blog that the first time you read the article as an individual work, you raised some questions like what’s the difference between Social Computation Cloud and Social Storage Cloud in terms of the photo storage, I have to say that your cognition level has reached higher than other students at the same time. I greatly agree with you on your idea that group work promotes you to cover the three levels of cognition. So, I guess that’s the purpose of our professor to assign us to do these two kinds of activities, in this way, we can understand deeply about the help from group works to us in these three levels of cognition.
ReplyDeleteYou can always give a particular explanation of concept and make a vivid example to help the readers better understand the difficult theory. You made our group work related to the cognition theory. Different works represents different stages we achieved. It can be seen you had a deep thinking above the lecture mentioned and the teacher taught. That inspired me a lot.
ReplyDeleteI think group study is a good way to enhance our understanding of the knowledge no matter online network or in traditional room.The social collaboration tools is very easy useful for us and make the group work more efficient and effective. Such as the google doc, in the further job, we should make full use of it.
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