connectivism: a learning theory for a digital age
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Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age. George Siemens [email protected]. What does a theory do?. Explains Guides Links knowledge and implementation Builds foundation of its own obsolesce. Knowledge. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a
Digital AgeGeorge Siemens
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What does a theory do?
• Explains• Guides• Links knowledge and implementation• Builds foundation of its own
obsolesce
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Knowledge
“To 'know' something is to be organized in a certain way, to exhibit patterns of connectivity. To 'learn' is to acquire certain patterns.”
(Downes, 2006)
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What does it mean to Learn?
Learning is about knowledge- to relate- to acquire- to connect- to create- to communicate
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Knower, content, context
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Knowledge Growth
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Softening Knowledge
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What does it mean to know?
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Containers and Patterns
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The quest for externality
• Thoughts and language• Symbols• Tools to externalize and connect
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Seeing the Whole
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“…we suggest that the objects of thought, the very things upon which mental processes directly operate, are not always inside the brain…The cognitive processing that gives rise to mental experience may be something whose functioning cuts across the superficial physical boundaries between brain, body, and environment.” (Spivey et al, 2004)
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“The distributed cognition perspective aspires to rebuild cognitive science from the outside in,, beginning with the social and material setting of cognitive activity, so that culture, context, and history can be linked with the core concepts of cognition” (Hutchins, 2000)
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Internalization
• Behaviourism• Cognitivism• Constructivism
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Connectivism• Externalization• Learning is chaotic, not structured• Learning is network formation (or
pattern recognition)• Distributed• Networks filter• Adaptive
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It’s distributed
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Learning Networks
• Internal (the architecture of a brain)• External (the nodes we connect)
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Context
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Learning Ecology
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Spaces and Structures
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“Humans create their cognitive powers in part by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers”
(Hutchins, 2000)
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Knowledge Spaces
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Knowledge Structures
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