The+Process+of+Knowledge+Creation

__**What is knowledge?**__ Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, that can include descriptions, facts, information and/or skills acquired through experience or education.([|www.wikipedia.org/wiki/knowledge]). Knowledge can be something that can be passed on through training, teaching, mentoring, etc. or it can only be obtained through life experiences where you need a period of time to learn.

Knowledge is life experience, factual information, written records of information. Knowledge is what you know, but also, what you want to learn. Knowledge is the understanding of information. Knowledge can be gained through activites, listening, creating, and any other process in which tacit or explicit information is being linked between sources.

__**Is knowledge tangible?**__ I think it works both ways, it's like book smart&street smart. Would you say a person who has a better score on an IQ test is more knowledgeable than the one who scores lower? It should be weighed both ways. In order for knowledge to be tangible, you would have to look at what that person is knowledgeable in? If it is baking, then yes, knowledge is tangible. You physically make the baked good step by step, along the way gaining knowledge until you put it all together to get the final outcome. You can also say knowledge is intangible in certain areas/subjects. When it comes to sports, intangable knowledge could be the difference betweeen winning and losing, no matter who has the better teams statistically on paper. It could also be experiences and lessons learned by someone in any profession that would give you an advantage over another person based on history on the matter.

__**Is knowledge a process?**__ In my opinion, knowledge itself doesn't describe the process. It should be something like a representation of complex cognitive skills. Knowledge is the outcome of a process, not the process itself. You develop knowledge over a period of time by acquiring it in pieces. You then put those pieces together to be "knowledgeable" on a subject matter. It's like forming a puzzle and finding each piece that connects with another.

__**Does the word knowledge really have multiple meanings or do we misuse the word?**__ We misuse the word all the time. Whether we say someone is very knowledgeable, when really they may be "smart" but not with great knowledge, or we just bundle the term knowledge into other terms like smart, insightful, genius, etc. It could also have multiple meanings depending on how you use it and look at it.

I think the positive way of defining the meaning of knowledge should be various. Anything you know about, things you are able to manage etc. Knowledge is not only about the ability of handling issues, do well on the tests anymore. As the society goes, people nowadays cannot be litmited by definations on the dictionary; in order to become a powerful individual.

__**How do we construct it?**__ We construct knowledge through the learning process, whether it be through reading and memorizing or physical experiences that we learn from. It is constructed through a series of steps in a systematic order, whereby you understand over time how to accomplish something or learn about a subject. Once you have learned the steps, you have the knowledge to teach someone else how to do it. If you have trouble learning along the way, you ask questions and practice till you are able to do it on your own.

__**Where does it reside?**__ It resides within our brains, in our memory, through learning and repetition. The more often we do something the more knowledgeable we become at it, through finding easier or quicker ways to do it. It can also reside in books, online or in other people.

Well, personally I believe the form of knowledge comes from "nature& nurture". Those two ways bring the biggest impacts on the development of knowledge. The genetic factor could physically limit the ability of learning or other way around; for example, some people are telented in different ways. As the nurture part, the surroundings or communities creat a hugh effect on the developmental period of knowledge as well. I think the development of knowledge should be both continuously; and it should be found& difined differently developed at different period.