Cosma / Communication / Knowledge
Spotlight
How to Get Knowledge
Resources
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General
Things You Need To Know, General Knowledge For Kids
Dictionary
knowledge : the sum of what is known : the body of truth, information, and principles acquired by humankind — Webster
Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, that can include descriptions, facts, information, and/or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to both the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); and it can be more or less formal or systematic. In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology, and the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as “justified true belief.” There is however no single agreed upon definition of knowledge, and there are numerous theories to explain it. — Wikipedia
Preservation
History
History of Knowledge (Piero Scaruffi)
A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot (Burke, P., 2000)
Quotation
Museum
Knowledge and Learning (The British Museum)
Museum of Knowledge, Corbusier’s dream project that failed (The Tribute of India)
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
Bibliography
Knowledge (John Turri, Oxford Bibliographies)
Participation
Education
International Baccalaureate (IB)
MERLOT
Course
MIT IAP 2000 Knowledge Systems 101: From Alexandria to Hitchhiker’s Guide (Hopper)
OER Commons
Community
Knowledge community (Gartner IT Glossary)
Knowledge community (Wikipedia)
Book
Government
Document
Expression
Fun
Useless facts and funny unnecessary knowledge (Try this!)
Game
Game of Knowledge (Board Game Geek)
Arts
Poem
The Rock (T. S. Eliot)
OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
Music
History of Everything Live At Red Rocks (Barenaked Ladies)
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1. One stop in the saga of Mary E. Hopper’s mission to understand “Knowledge” as a discipline took her to MIT where she developed and presented this short course during her Post Doc in Comparative Media Studies.
Hopper, M. E. (2000, January). Knowledge systems 101: From Alexandria to Hitchhiker’s Guide [Short Course]. Independent Activity Period (IAP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.