BLOG POST 7: KNOWLEDGE

What does “knowledge” mean to me? Knowledge is what is known to us. You need not be an expert or have a degree to be equipped with the knowledge for all topics. But for certain areas of understanding, a particular level of expertise or proof of that understanding is required, like a PhD for astrophysicists or an MD for surgeons to be truly respectable or considered knowledgeable.
“Learning” is the acquirement of knowledge. Knowledge can only be attained by learning, either through experience, practice, reading/writing, etc. Without learning the knowledge is incomplete and lacks understanding.
How is knowledge different from information? Information is the context on which the knowledge built. Without information, there wouldn’t be anything to be knowledgeable on. All the understanding and knowledge that can be gathered about various items and phenomena and are true and legit are considered as information.
Collaboration is crucial for all those ideas that are incomplete. Many ideas are only from one persons perspective and they go unresolved or incomplete. When another person with the “missing piece of the puzzle” combines with their idea, its complete.
In Johnson’s video, he explains and illustrates how combined efforts towards the same goal often than not helps the knowledge making process. When there are multiple people working on the same problem but from different angles or perspectives, each area of the problem is being tackled and solved leaving less or no gaps and the knowledge “created” is more than it would’ve been if it was handled by a single person. More people with similar goals having different levels of understanding can be valuable resources to one another on the topics that they are not respectively disciplined on and can aid in making the process easier and more accurate.
Using these two contexts, I will conduct a One on one interview with a subject that is well informed on the topics that I am keen on learning and understanding more about. Hopefully this interaction will allow me to absorb more information and become more knowledgeable by listening to my interviewee.