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Education: An ecology of connectionsGeorge SiemensMay 14, 2008TLt Summit
Saskatoon, SaskatchewanLearning Technologies Centrewww.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as teacher6. The Learner
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CHANGE
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Social and technological
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Technological revolution Year
Industrial from 1771
Steam/Railways from 1829
Steel/Electricity from 1875
Oil/Automobile/Mass production
from 1908
Information/telecommunications
from 1971
Perez, C. 2004
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TechnologicalConceptual
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Why change?
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Class
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Divine Right
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Unfair system: Access Barriers
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Resonance
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But, these things take time
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Tension points of education
Open/ClosedAmateur/Expert
Foster/CommandNetwork/Hierarchy
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Reduce barriers
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Increased
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Increased participation
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Where are we now?
TechnologicalConceptual
Here
Here
Here
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as teacher6. The Learner
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Complicated
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To know the right answer
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Complex
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When we see complex as
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Satisfied with false knowns
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Creation of new frameworks,
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When we iconosize concepts, we strip them of the opportunity to morph
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Nothing is more pernicious in science than attempts to establish adherence to doctrines
Radcliffe-Brown (1940)
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as teacher6. The Learner
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Technology as blessing and
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Balance is the new extreme
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Boundaries between people
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But what happens to us?
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What of community?
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Fragmentation
Information
Identity
Understanding
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The more we become
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But individual centralization
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as teacher6. The Learner
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Learning as network formation
Connection are sufficient
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Networks occur within
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Ecologies: environments that fosters and supports learning
ChaoticStructured informality
AdaptiveAlive
DiverseEmergent
Self-organizing, individually directed
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Education as ecology
Classroom, courses, programs, system
Beyond formal
Beyond myopic view of learner
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as
teacher6. The Learner
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Instructor’s role
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Educator as scaffolder? Accreditor?
Network administrator
Curator/concierge
Product/process…content/interaction
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Blend, spectrum
Formal to informalGradients of technology use
Contextual
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EC & I 831
http://eci831.wikispaces.com/
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How are ideas vetted/validated?
Source of validation: By experts? Amateurs? Unwashed
masses?
Method: By networks? Openness? Hierarchical?
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1. Let’s have a revolution!! (but they take time)
2. Complex and complicated3. What technology does to/for us 4. Ecologies5. The person formerly known as teacher6. The Learner
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“people have much more knowledge
than appears to be present in the information to which they have been exposed”
Landauer and Dumais (1997)
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Biggs SOLO
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Learner’s role
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Wayfinding
Darken, R. 1996
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On
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Move to exploration
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