Week Eleven - 12th May

Building Knowledge

Tutorial
During the tutorial this week we were asked to browse the following web page http://www.success.co.il/is/dik.html and use the Internet to find some dictionaries that you can look up the terms data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

These are some of the websites that I found:

• yourdictionary.com
• thefreedictionary.com
• dictionary.reference.com/

We were then instructed to compile definitions for the terms - data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

Data
(yourdictionary)
Information in a form suitable for storing and processing by a computer

(thefreedictionary)
Factual information, especially information organised for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.

Information
(yourdictionary)
Any data that can be stored in and retrieved from a computer

(thefreedictionary)
The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge

Knowledge
(yourdictionary)

• The act, fact, or state of knowing; specif.,
  Acquaintance or familiarity (with a fact, place, etc.)
  Awareness
  Understanding

(thefreedictionary)
Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study.

Wisdom
(yourdictionary)
The quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.; good judgment; sagacity

(thefreedictionary)
Common sense; good judgment

Graphical Representation of the search terms:


The relationship between data, information and knowledge can assist your university study because you learn about each different one and then their relationships between each other and that they are all linked and once you learn how to understand each of them then it makes university study a lot easier to connect and understand the big picture.

5 organisations
That collect information from their clients or the public

• Telstra
• HBF
• ANZ Bank
• Alinta Gas
• Synergy

The collect this information from their clients or the public to find out better ways in which they can operate the company and some of them need to collect the information in order to run their operation and business as it relies on their clients and the community to give them their information in order to - run a bank or even a communications company such as Telstra.

Lecture
During the lecture we learnt the following-

• Definitions and characteristics of the search terms
• Importance and examples of the search terms
• The relationships in a business situation
• Strategies for assignment work

Reading 1 'Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom'
This reading explained the different meanings of the search terms 'data, information, knowledge and wisdom' according to Russell Ackoff and then elaborated on his definitions.

Reading 2 'Information Literacy Tutorial'
Reading 2 was about a tutorial on information literacy skills and had lessons and quiz's to do on the web page to help you out with research strategies and evaluating.