Read alone or read together?

  In the last class, we have played tow activities. We are called to read a paper and answer two questions followed it. This is the first activity.

The second activity asks us to read the paper again in a group, and answer same questions together.

  Answer in activity one:

    1. A Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing relationships established between members of a social network.
       2. A Social Computation Cloud,A Social Storage Cloud,A Social Collaborative Cloud,A Social Cloud for Public Science,An Enterprise Social Cloud
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   Answer in activity two:

  only cut out the parts different with my individual answer to show above.

  

   At first, I feel bored about these activities, because the questions about the paper are quite easy to find the answers just in the paper. And it seems that answers of different students turned to be quite similar.I thought this result definitely can be prospected. How would you expect people to answer the question: who gives birth to you? Of course, mom.In the same way, to the two questions followed the paper, of course, similar answers.

  There are 4 types of knowledge involved in academic learning:factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge and metacognitive knowledge. In my opinion, answering the questions in activity one only involves the factual knowledge and conceptual knowledge. And this may be the reason why we  have similar answers that innovative and self- thinking do not permeate much in applying these two types of knowledge. In other words, we are told to do the right thing under the same condition, so our answers will be alike because we all think that is the right answer,just like we all love our mom and dad; you can say: my brain or god told me to choose like this.

   In activity two, answers in a group have interact. According to communication, how do other members in group find the answer and why they think like this is clear to know.

1.what was the epistemic aims in these activities? Is there any change in them? If so, why did you change your aims?

  The epistemic aim in activity one is to find things out, to acquire true. However the aim in activity two is to adopt minimally justified belief and understanding.Aim changes due to that the method of how we establish our knowledge has changed. Philosophers discusses 4 main types of process of knowledge formation: cognitive processes, processes of formal inquiry, interpersonal processes, community and institutional processes. When we discuss the questions in group, knowledge has been built together in a social environment which pushed the step of individual acquire knowledge to step of understand others' theory, refresh individual one and rebuild theory.

   

2.Is there any differences in terms of individual and group epistemic cognition, how?

  Individual and group epistemic cognition are different. Let me make an inappropriate example, last day I had an exam, and during the review before the exam, I found that efficiency of my review is much higher when reviewing in a group than it when reviewing alone, for I can get more information from the others, and change angles of thinking. What I want to say is group epistemic cognition is more effective and comprehensive than individual epistemic cognition.

3.How did you approach to the problem individually and in group,respectively? Is there any differences in the processes involved?

     When approaching the problem individually, I cares much about correctness of my answer; however when approaching the problem in group, in addition to correctness, more specific understanding of the theory and correctness of the theory call most of my attention.

This blog is finished in a rush. I am so sorry that I failed to make a good balance allocating time among homeworks and exam.