Transcript Personal Knowledge Management

Personal Knowledge
Management
Laura Larsson
Cedar Collaboration
November 6, 2004
Agenda
• Personal Knowledge Management (7
competencies)
• Comparing competencies
• PKM Competencies Instrument - How
good are your PKM competencies?
What Do We Need to Know
To…
• Be a competent and literate member of the
information society?
• Find, organize, retrieve and disseminate
the information we need/have?
• Cope with the vast amounts of information
we are bombarded with each day
(InfoGlut) ?
• Manage our own knowledge efficiently?
What is Personal Knowledge
Management?
• It is a system or strategy designed by
individuals to
– Organize and integrate personally important
information
– transform random pieces of information into
something that can be systematically applied
and that expands our personal knowledge
• Similar to information literacy
Seven PKM Competencies
• Based on work done by Paul Dorsey, et
al., Millikin University
• Acquiring information and ideas
• Evaluating information and ideas
• Organizing information and ideas
• Analyzing information and ideas
Seven Areas, continued…
• Cpnveying information and ideas
• Collaborating around information and
ideas; and
• Securing information and ideas
• Source:Paul Dorsey, Millikin University, Decatur,
IL. Dorsey (http://www.millikin.edu/)
Basis of Information Literacy
• a set of abilities
• "[I]nformation literate people are those who
have learned how to learn
• …”they know how knowledge is organized,
how to find information, and how to use
information in such a way that others can
learn from them. They are people prepared
for lifelong learning."
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Source: American Library Association Presidential Committee on
Information Literacy: Final Report. (Chicago: ALA), 1989.
Comments
• Many of the information literacy resources
stop at presenting methods for assuring
that you can keep information and ideas
• But, PKM gives you tools and hints for
finding, evaluating, organizing, analyzing,
presenting, collaborating and securing
information and ideas
Information Literacy vs
Informatics Competencies
• Council on Linkages Competencies
Project
• Public Health Informatics Competencies
Council on Linkages
Council Competencies
Council Competencies
Highlighted Today
• Defines a problem (acquiring)
• Identifies relevant and appropriate data and
information sources (acquiring)
• Partners with communities to attach meaning to
collected quantitative and qualitative data
(collaborating)
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and
qualitative data (evaluating)
• Source: Council on Linkages Competencies Project. [online] Site
URL: http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list.htm
Competencies, continued…
• Obtains and interprets information regarding
risks and benefits to the community (acquiring)
• Applies data collection processes, information
technology applications, and computer systems
storage/retrieval strategies (organizing)
• Recognizes how the data illuminates ethical,
political, scientific, economic, and overall public
health issues (evaluating)
Informatics Competencies
Informatics Competencies
Highlighted Today
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(1) Digital literacy (acquiring, organizing)
(2) Electronic communications (collaborating)
(3) Selection and use of IT tools (today’s focus)
(4) Online information utilization (acquiring)
(9) Information and knowledge development
(analyzing, conveying)
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Source: Public Health Informatics Competencies. [Online] Site
URL:http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/phi/comps/competencies.ht
ml. Site visited: 08/09/04.
So What?!?
• We will be learning about resources that
we will want to keep going back to and use
• My role is to discuss some relatively
simple and inexpensive techniques and
tools to manage information
AM/PM
• AM
– Look at applications for finding, organizing,
using and conveying/disseminating
information
• PM
– Retrieving and using the information you’ve
already found
How Good Are Your PKM
Competencies?
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Baseline PKM competencies
Take the survey home with you
Fill it out and determine your skill level
Ask for training materials if you need
additional help
• Plan on learning constantly
Contact Information
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Laura Larsson
Cedar Collaboration
[email protected] or
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