Week Eleven - Readings

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom from http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

This website discusses data, information, knowledge, understanding and wisdome. Firstly, data is explained as symbols, whether being a colour, number, letter, etc. Anything without judgement. Information as data that is processed to be useful, which usually answers the questions of who, what where, when. This still has no judgements attached though can lead one to understand an idea or topic which leads to wisdom. Wisdom is the evaluation of understanding. All undertsanding of a topic or idea is carried by knowledge, information and data.

Knowing this, i understand the method of producing ideas through the above to gain wisdom of a topic.

Information Literacy Tutorial from http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/index.html

This website concerns the above which is discussed though adds detail to the conversions of data to information to knowledge. This website offers help to learn how to construct knowledge from information and data. Though this is done, it holds the same information discussed in Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom.