ICTP211: Lesson 4

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  These on-line versions are easier to access and have capabilities that their paper counterparts do not. 
• The challenge to past and future civilizations has been and will always be the pursuit of knowledge
• Knowledge acquisition accompanies curiosity.
• True

  • These on-line versions are easier to access and have capabilities that their paper counterparts do not. 
• The second aspect of knowledge acquisition is using the information.
• False

  • information or knowledge stands alone. 
• • The tradition of exchange of information since the time of the early shaman or of the Greeks and Romans has been the mentoring/supervisory relationship. 
• • mentoring/supervisory relationship has always been the premiere way to communicate quality information. 
• • Trade apprenticeships, such as physician mentoring, used the information that was passed down in order to learn necessary skills and methods needed for performing procedures particular to their trade. 
• • The supervisory or mentoring relationship has been considered the pinnacle of training and has developed into a time-revered tradition to many who recall significant experiences in their education. 
• • Direct knowledge acquisition, as a rule, ensures quality and integrity of information. 
• • Communicating knowledge by supervision and first-hand experience has been the basic premise of medical training. 
• Other types of direct exchange include classroom instruction, association meetings, and conferences.
• • a traditional method of communicating scientific or clinical information is through the specialty conference. 
• • Indirect methods of gathering knowledge include books, journals, manuscripts, and letters. 
• INDIRECT KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION utilize the written approach to disseminating information and offer a well-organized way to present information.
• True

  • The advantages of this method of exchange are that it is replicated readily, reaches a greater number of people, and is easily transported to great distances. 
• Medical school is a prime example of combining the indirect method with the direct.
• We can extend the classroom beyond its walls through recording techniques, interactive teleconferencing, and other technical enhancements. 
• • We can change views or perspectives on information instantly by using computer technology. 
• • Interactive video conferencing and telemedicine can dissolve the walls of distance and location. 
• • Internet, many use it as their primary source of information.
• • What makes all of this connectivity possible was the establishment of standards. 
• part of the wisdom that allowed for its universal adoption is a set of standards or protocols (TCP/IP)
• • a set of standards or protocols (TCP/IP) that established a simple and relatively inexpensive global communication system. 
• False

  • Part of the magic of the World Wide Web is its inherent style of decoration. 
• • Hypertext (meaning “beyond text”) links allow movement or “jumps” to other pages of related information and to other websites regardless of location.
• hypertext allows for interaction with knowledge in a way that is more analogous to the way we think. 
• Multimedia changes the way we acquire knowledge and the way we interact with information.
• • Nonlinearity offers a learning style and interaction with information that is more “natural” and emulates the way we interact with the world. 
• Nonlinear interaction allows the person to explore information from any point.
• False

  a book, has no beginning, middle, and an end
• a nonlinear approach offers the opportunity to start in the middle or anywhere else to explore information.
• • Hypertext allows for this approach and offers a new mode of opportunities for learning and interaction. 
• • Marshall McLuhan has pointed out that we should not be blinded by technology. 
• True

  • the whole point of technology is its ability to lead us to the information, then accumulate, and process it for us. 
• False

  • We should focus on the technoligy itself, not on the tasks of learning and interacting with knowledge
• Technology can either enhance or interfere with knowledge acquisition.
• False

  • One must always remember that the goal is to impress and dazzle the reader rather than to inform and educate.
• True

  Part of empowering ourselves through knowledge is learning about available tools that help us understand the data.