Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

Personal Knowledge Management is a process and strategy for properly using the tools of technology for enhancing information, learning and inquiry skills.

"Today, all of us live and learn in a world that has been radically altered by the ready availability of vast stores of information encoded in a variety of formats.  The learning process and the information process mirror each other as we seek to construct meaning from the sources we encounter and to create products that shape and communicate meaning effectively.  Developing expertise in organizing and analyzing information is in fact the authentic learning that modern education must promote." (Norton and Sprague, Teaching with Technology, 103.)

Information and Knowledge

Before PKM:  shaping and defining an inquiry, question or problem

Seven Phases of PKM
Retrieving information. 
Evaluating information. 
Organizing information. 
Analyzing Information.
Collaborating Around Information.
Presenting Information. 
Securing Information. 

Computers & Writing 2002 Presentation
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Dr. Michael O'Conner
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