Download - Knowing knowledge seminar
Connectivism: A theory for
today’s learning? Gráinne Conole
Seminar on ‘Knowing knowledge’ by George Siemens9th July 2008
Outline
• Overview of key points
• Questions raised
• Implications for SocialLearn
Themes
• To conceptualise learning & knowing as connection-based processes
• To explore the nature of change
• To explore the changing nature of knowledge
• To present knowledge as a context-game
• To present a new model for space & structure
Pg. viii
Knowledge has changed
Create & share
non-linearity
Industrial product
Knowledge flow
Categories/hierarchies
Networks/ecologies
Connections change content
Knowledge a function of
the network
Connectivism is a theory describing how learning happens in a digital age.
Emphasises the networking affordances of technologies. How does learning change
when knowledge growth is overwhelming and technology replaces many basic task
we have perviously preformed?
Knowing knowledge: 30
Principles
• Learning & knowledge - diversity of opinions
• Learning as process of connection
• ‘Tools’ as extensions of ourselves & our learning
• Importance of nuturing networks
• Seeing connections as key digital skill
• Currency of knowledge
Pg. 31
Societal trends
Pg 71
Characteristics of knowledge
Pg 80
The knowledge flow cycle
Pg 7
Traits of learning
Pg 28
Pg 29
Pg 32
Context is central
Pg 34
Pg 39
Implications for learning
• Consume media
• Authenticate knowledge
• Express ideas
• Relate to information
• Cope with intensity
• Consume learning content
• Assessment
• Peer dialogue
• Media mix
• Workload/expectations
Society Education
Pg 4
Type Purpose Why Good for Drawbacks Tools
Formal
Gaming
Mentor
Community-based
Informal
Map for SocialLearn?
Map to microcosms? Pg.40
ABOUT
TO DO
TO TRANSFORMWHERE
TO BE
Pg. 10
Praxis
Awareness
Connection
Involvement Recognition
Meaning
Pg 45
Anchoring
Coping with uncertainty
Navigating
Pattern recognition
Critical & creative thinking
Evaluating
Deriving meaning
Creating
Connecting
Filtering
Contextualising
Socialising
Connectivism skills
Pg 113
Issues
• Digital divide narrower but deeper
• Power balances still exist
• The loss of reflection
• Value of slow learning
• Making sense of complexity
Questions• What are the implications of:
• adopting a networked view of learning?
• know where/who more important than what/how?
• knowledge as process not product?
• shift from focus on content to connections?
• How can we describe new digital spaces & structures?