The Admiralty Code: A Cognitive Tool for Self-Directed Learning
Keywords:
Learning; Inquiry; Evidence; Cognitive ToolsAbstract
This article introduces The Admiralty Code – a cognitive tool,
used by police investigators and intelligence analysts, which can also
assist learners in evaluating information and distinguishing it from
potential misinformation or disinformation. One reason for using
inquiry-based learning methods in education, is that they develop
students‟ capabilities for engaging in self-directed inquiry, throughout
their personal and professional lives. But the carefully-designed
information environments in which students conduct inquiry-based
learning in schools or colleges are much more benign than the ones in
which they will conduct their self-directed inquiries, later on.
Information environments such as the internet or the mass media present
the inquirer with an excess of information, as well as misinformation and
even disinformation. The challenge of distinguishing essential from nonessential information and of evaluating its trustworthiness is not
addressed sufficiently by inquiry-based learning methods in benign
education environments. Use of The Admiralty Code has the potential to
correct this shortcoming. Application of The Admiralty Code is
illustrated by an analysis of the evidence surrounding the mysterious
loss of HMAS Sydney in 1941.
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