5. A Scenario—1
Joe is in Medical
School studying to be a
doctor
Joe is preparing for a
test on Bacterial
Infections
6. A Scenario—2
Bookmark page with
these tags
Immune Response
Bacterial Infection
macrophages use
free radicals to Macrophage
kill bacteria
Free Radical
Reactive Oxygen
Annotate page with
this idea Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
7. A Scenario—3
Sarah lives a healthy
lifestyle
Sarah read that
free radicals
can cause cancer
8. A Scenario—4
Bookmark page with
these tags
antioxidants Antioxidant
kill
free radicals Free Radical
Annotate page with
this idea Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
9. A Scenario—5
Ben is a cancer patient
with recurring
bacterial infections
Ben visits a garden
condo to research
bacterial infections
Note: Ben is modeled after the author; while the author made the same
discovery, it occurred by different means. Still, this scenario supports the case
that important discoveries are available through federation of individual acts.
10. A Scenario—6
Ben becomes curious
about free radicals—a Ben makes a discovery
new concept to him
Free Radical
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to kill
kill bacteria free radicals
What’s this all
about?
11. A Scenario—7
Ben makes a decision Sounds like I should
not take any more
antioxidant pills!
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to Must Avoid kill
kill bacteria free radicals
Ben adds a new
Connection between
the two ideas
Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
12. A Scenario—8
Olivia is a Medical
Doctor interested in
immune system
subjects
13. A Scenario—9
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to Must Avoid kill
kill bacteria free radicals
“Must Avoid” Need to restate this
doesn’t really information
convey a proper
sense of reality
Olivia visits the garden
14. A Scenario—10
Bacterial Infection Contraindicates Antioxidants
Because
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to kill
kill bacteria free radicals
Olivia gets bonus
points for justifying Create a new set of
her assertion. representations by
connecting the two
core concepts and
explaining the
connection Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
16. A Scenario—12
Structured conversation
responds
“Compromised host” as a new
concept to be represented in the
knowledge base
Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
17. A Scenario—13
Co-created resource in
Compromised Host the garden
Appropriate For
Bacterial Infection Contraindicates Antioxidants
Because
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to kill
kill bacteria free radicals
Use garden condo tools to
record discoveries
18. Complex Systems
Shared Stories
Collaboration in the Garden
From the perspective of
complexity theory, emergence
arises from complex systems
that create new properties
from “autonomous unities
coming together into larger,
more powerful unities”*
The emergence we seek is that of
insight into the nature of and
* [2]
solutions to complex problems
19. Great Law of the Iroquois
"In every deliberation, we must consider the
impact on the seventh generation...”
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20. “…We shall require a
substantially new manner of
thinking if mankind is to
survive.” –Albert Einstein
21. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned,
uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
25. Knowledge Gardening Behaviors
• Stages of Basic Research Behaviors
– Forage Filter Analyze Synthesize
• At each stage
– Capture results
– Dialogue where appropriate
• Narrative, Story emerges through dialogue
26. An Approach: Role-playing Games
• Massive, multi-player online role playing games
– One kind of gardening
– Quests
• Well posed issues
– Learning contexts
– Guilds
• Apprenticeships in the modern age of complex problem
solving
– Game mechanics
• Motivation
• Augmented trust and social collaboration
• Social learning
27. Life in a Guild
– Using role-playing
game mechanics for
collaboration on
quests
– Guild results are
federated and posted
for public use
– All aspects of a topic
are covered by virtue
of many guilds
working on the same
quest
– Stories created by a
Documenter/Scribe
Roleplayer
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28. Garden Workflow Big Picture
Encyclopedia
World of
Information Workbench
Sources
Topic Map
•Collect and curate information resources
•Transfer them to a Workbench
•Annotate, Tag, Connect ideas at the Workbench
•Create summary topics in the Encyclopedia
•Organize Workbench resources in Topic Map
29. Completed Representation
Compromised Host
Appropriate For
Bacterial Infection Contraindicates Antioxidants
Because
macrophages use antioxidants
free radicals to kill
Let us co-create our future
kill bacteria free radicals
30. About Me
Built airplane
Undergrad study: aero eng.
Built windmills/Solar homes
Built wind/solar sensors
AI to analyze data
Collective intelligence
Knowledge gardens
Life in a Waterfall
31. References
• [1] FEDERAL HEALTH FUTURES SUMMIT LEADERSHIP LEARNING for TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE.
September 10-11, 2012 Washington DC Metro Region
• [2] Olen Gunnlaugson (2011). A Complexity Perspective on Presencing. Complicity, Vol 9, No 1 (2012).
Online at: http://ejournals.library.
