Landing : Athabascau University

Exemplar of Berry-Picking - "Significant Learning"

Significance:

This is a significant quote (below) because it provides an in-depth description of sense-making, a rather vague process I wanted to unpack at some point for clarifying what tasks are required for sensemaking while blogging.  It is significant to come up with a concise definition of sensemaking to separate it from other blogging activities, such as berry-picking. All these processes are part of knowledge construction, and sense-making is not the 'goal in itself' for blogging, but one goal of several.

Tacit sensemaking can be described as... 

... tacit mindfulness, an awareness of here-and-now (in the moment); retrospective sensemaking and codifying stories into coherence narratives; making sense of fragmentation, such as in terse narratives, and codifying fragments into proper narrative wholes; enactment sensemaking in ways of framing, such as unconscious logics, metaphors, or archetypes that precede retrospection; multiple discursive dialogisms..."

Source:

Jo Tyler & David Boje, 2008, Sorting The Relationship of Tacit Knowledge to Story and Narrative Knowing, retrieved November 8, 2010, from URL: http://peaceaware.com/vita/paper_pdfs/Sorting_Rel_of_Tacit_K_in_Story_Narr_K_Jos_V%5Bsubmit%5D.pdf