How do we Think?
How do we Organise Our Thinking?
How do we Organise our Understanding?
How do we Access Key Information (as gathered and saved)
How do we Represent Our Thinking, Our Understanding?
How can We Model Our Thinking?
What for? As visual interfaces; as browsers for key information; knowledge; ideas?
How can we Share Our Thinking, Our Understanding?
What for? Team working?
‘Frameworks’ Meta Model Frame: Stuff Box = junk drawer; check, sort, verify – allocate to Model
‘Frameworks’ Models of Thinking & Understanding
The Model is the Interface (GUI/HUI) to Thinking & Undertstanding
The Organiser
Cognitive
Visual Graphical
Situation
The situation of (key) information in meaningful arrays; in memorable structures – maps or narratives; rooms in palaces..
Situation – Thought Palace (visual, pictorial) – Model – Map Schema Browser
Parse Schema for meaning – relevant Model YES/NO
YES = Browser hierarchical structure to explore composition/decomposition; links of association; OO Modelling of Class (Focus), Superclass (Context), and Subclass (Instances) * a moveable feast
Thought – Idea – Model Existing or New – Focus + Context
e.g. Trees of Thought*; Dyslexia, Dysgraphia?
The Metaphor of Trees
Trunk, roots, branches, branchlets, roots.
Turn the tree upside down!
The Trunk =/= The Focus Class Type
The Branches =/= The Instances Sub Classes Subtypes
The Roots =/= Context Superclass
DO NOT turn the tree upside down!
The Trunk =/= The Focus, Class Type
The Branches =/= Context, Superclass
The Roots =/= The Instances, Sub Classes, Subtypes
A simple hierarchy with levels of decomposition//fragmentation from big to medium to small; from system to component, to molecular, to atomic.
Big Thought – what is the Focus; how many boxes are there? Small Thought – what is the Focus, one box? What is the Context!? You have constructed a Default Model.
News headline/article – internet – link reference SAVE – further contained link reference SAVE
where? Desktop? SORTED – sorting? (later??)
Containers? Boxes? Junk Drawer? Analogue World
Digital World Directory Lists; Containers Folders? “Boxes”?
Information Nodes in Information Structures, Information Models?
The Visual Graphical Interface = The Model = The Browser; the ‘HUI” where the Information Nodes of the Information Model are hyperlinked to definition, detail, reference
Acquire LOTS EVERY DAY
Sort? //TODAY Folder//R&D Topic Folder
duplicate? To be saved in a number of relevant containers
First Port of Call ‘Frameworks’ Stuff Box Verified and Sorted
From Stuff Box in Frame to Model (Nodes) Linked/Uploaded