How does our brain classify what we learn?

The pathways we create in our notes, visualize the connections our brain makes when receiving new knowledge, in effect creating our own database of knowledge

The way we store knowledge and how we classify it, is uniq. Our notes reflect this.

Classification is the mental process where our brain organizes new information into meaningful categories. By grouping similar concepts together, we make knowledge easier to store, retrieve, and connect with what we already know.

Our brain sorts meaning by creating links between ideas.
These links shape how we remember, understand, and use knowledge.
Classification is the structure that turns scattered input into coherent understanding.

In extension of collecting the data we now find ourselves classifying what was chosen to be collected.
Firstly, we’ve compared how we have classified our notes in Obsidian during the semester to clarify how each of us has connected and linked the syllabus and new knowledge to each other. As seen below, we’ve created visualisations of how we experienced the topics from this semester’s syllabus.
For example, Alma sees the knowledge more linked to each other, where I see the syllabus more as small taxonomies.
Secondly, classifying is reflected in Assignment 2 with the task of categorizing selected data into a given data environment, the open knowledge graph.

Alma

Eva

Emma

Katrine