180 Day 21 Notes

April 2, 2001

Reminder: no class on wed

Next Monday, guest lecture

1. One minute papers (none last Monday)

Main Point

Information is constructed rather than transferred

People are impatient!

AnswerGarden provocative/interesting

Roles of intermediaries: person to person, secondary lit, knowledge-based system

Schools should teach how to ask good questions (how do we do this?)

Q:

What is threshold for machine to human handoff of questions?

How to get past ‘it depends’?

(person-context specific---cultural expectations will dictate)

Will indexes dissapear?

Will we get all text online?

Info on building expert systems?

2 Reading discussions:

Moorhead et al discussion: Tao Gao

Sonnenwald discussion: Becky Imamoto

Constant et al discussion: Erica Jarvis

3.The one-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?