How much we forget and why we should know Personal Knowledge Management — PKM 0.1
My Understanding on Personal Knowledge Management and tools I use for PKM.
We all forget.
Forget the problem of not knowing what you don’t know. You probably don’t remember what you know either. I am not even talking about the detailed information of 30 min video about Digital Marketing you watched a year ago on YouTube. What I am saying is “Do you even remember that you watched a 30 min long video about Digital Marketing on YouTube a year ago?”
Yes, how much we forget depends on various factors —
- Type of material
- Learner’s prior knowledge
- Learner’s motivation and many more.
You can find a report on how much people forget by worklearning.com >here<.
But if you are having trouble remembering what you learnt, you should really set up a PKM system. A PKM system is very important now than ever before because we are bombarded by information everyday.
People are bombarded with the equivalent of 34 gigabytes of information a day
Look. 34 gigabytes is A LOT. An online course I recently pirated(illegally downloaded) is only 9 gigabytes.
What is PKM?
Here is Wikipedia definition.
Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a process of collecting information that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve and share knowledge in their daily activities (Grundspenkis 2007) and the way in which these processes support work activities (Wright 2005). It is a response to the idea that knowledge workers need to be responsible for their own growth and learning (Smedley 2009). It is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management (KM) (Pollard 2008).
But here, I’m not gonna emphasize PKM as an organizational tool but rather as a Personal Tool for our self-development in my articles.
And I’d say that PKM is a tool to help you learn more effectively and share what you learned easily with others.
And there are various models of PKM. But my favorite would be PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS By Paul A. Dorsey
And his 7 information skills together with understandable examples
- Retrieving information — You’re taking notes in class
- Evaluating information — The teacher says “today’s chapter won’t be in the exam” so you stopped taking notes.
- Organizing information — You copy your friend’s Chemistry notes and tape them in your chemistry notebook.
- Collaborating around information — You didn’t take notes during a lecture so you have to ask your friend to study with his/her notes together.
- Analyzing information — You look at your class time table and decide which class you are gonna skip
- Presenting information — You give a crappy presentation about Myanmar history in class
- Securing information — The last time you gave your notebook to your friend before the exam, you never got it back. Are you gonna give him your notes again this time? Huh?
In the next article, I will talk about the tools I prefer for each of those steps. You can find a few articles about PKM that I find useful below this.
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