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  • + thevmcoach Meri Walker 2 months ago
    Stephen’s clear thinking takes my breath away.
  • + thevmcoach Meri Walker 2 months ago
    The more you get to teach what you’re discovering, Stephen, the clearer and clearer your theory becomes. This piece is SOOOOO helpful. I’m really glad you were invited to the Czech Republic to speak this aloud...and that it’s so easy for you now to post your thoughts for all of us who weren’t there to benefit from. Everyday I stand a little taller and my step gets a little springier as I trek along behind you. I’m so glad you’ve taken up this discovery of Connectivism. Your learning and the language and graphics you put together helps me make sense of my everyday experience ... and I’m so grateful. Without you, I would just feel lost in space...
    Hearing you and seeing the branches you’ve bent on your way through the woods, I feel excited about this staggering uncertainty we’ve entered...
  • + midmarketplace The MidMarket Alliance 2 months ago
    Absolutely Brilliant!
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  1. New Tools for Personal Learning Stephen Downes MEFANET 2009 Conference Brno, Czech Republic, November 25, 2009
  2. Prologue
    • It turns out to be very easy to teach people things - people are very impressionable
    • What proves to be very hard is teaching people the right things - how not to learn
    http://www.surgeryminor.com/showcase/propaganda.html
  3. What I do
  4. 16000 Posts
    • What does 16,000 posts look like?
  5. Complicated, Complex http://www.gapingvoid.com/complicated128.jpg
  6. The (First) Butterfly Thesis a butterfly flapping its wings in South America can affect the weather in Central Park…. so why don’t we get that butterfly?
  7. The Three Body Problem http://www.dynamical-systems.org/threebody/index.html http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three-body_problem
  8. Connectivism: Engagement
    • There is no curriculum, no theory, no body of knowledge
      • (or, more accurately, the curriculum is the McGuffin)
    • The product is not the knowledge, it is the learner
    • It’s not that there’s nothing to learn, it’s that it’s complex and needs to be navigated…
    not memorized
  9. The three Ls: language, logic and learning
  10. First Theme
    • active engagement, not passive observation…
      • a bit like ANT, but no presumption of commonality, translation…
      • a bit like action research, but no presumption of a community of practice
    http://www.emtech.net/actionresearch.htm http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/ant_dff.html
  11. Thinking for yourself Critical thinking and reflection
  12. Free Learning
    • The picture of learning you should have is one of a large set of connected nodes (like the neurons in a brain)
    • Teachers are nodes, students are nodes
    • Both teaching and learning consists of sending and receiving communications to other nodes
    • Aggregate
    • Remix
    • Repurpose
    • Feed Forward
  13. It’s a river, not a reservoir Surfing Sensing Experiencing pattern recognition
  14. The Idea of the PLE… http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt
  15. Plex Personal Learning Environment Example http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/
  16. Collecting and Filtering RSS http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm
  17. RSS Writr http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
  18. FeedForward http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/feedforward/
  19. Second Theme
    • Learning…. vs the right learning
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin
  20. Understanding Interdependence
    • = no simple principles
    • = no simple cause & effect
  21. Me and my network of friends Aggregate Remix Repurpose Feed Forward
  22. Network Structures - Tree http://middleburydemocrats.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/college-democrats-getting-obama-to-go-viral-no-really/ Central Influence Power Law Viral Hierarchy
  23. Network Structures - Mesh Distributed Discussion Balanced Reflective Democracy http://www.daniel-lemire.com/fr/abstracts/DIVERSITY2008.html http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/using-email-to-uncover-hidden-social-networks/
  24. Individualism vs Mutuality
    • Independent variables vs dependent variables
    • eg. Rational decision - vs role model
    The myth of solitary autonomy
  25. When we ourselves become the story
  26. The Sharing Thesis
    • Not just competition - cooperation
    • Open Educational Resources (OERs)
    • The only sustainable model
    http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html
  27. The (Second) Butterfly Thesis http://www.flickr.com/photos/durhamskywriter/2858347734/
  28. Connectivism
    • “ At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.”
      • What Connectivism Is
      • http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-connectivism-is.html
  29. Course Components
    • The Wiki…
    http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
  30. Course Components
    • Course Moodle Forum
    http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20
  31. Third Theme
    • Groups vs networks
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/252157734_9e6c29433b.jpg
  32. Nancy White - Me, We, Network http://www.yesandspace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/open-space-metaphor_small.jpg
  33. Objects We Care About
    • Nancy White - networks, not just about connecting the people, but the objects they care about
  34. The object system, revisited Distributed Resources
  35.  
  36. Repositories and Syndication
    • Academic - OAI-PMH, Dspace, Fedora, Eprints, SWORD, Connexion, OCW
    • Web - Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare
    RSS OAI DC Atom http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar/
  37. Self-organization - metronomes http://salt.uaa.alaska.edu/dept/metro.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR-I
  38. Network Learning…
    • Hebbian associationism
      • based on concurrency
    • Back propagation
      • based on desired outcome
    • Boltzman
      • based on ‘settling’, annealing
    Self Organization
  39. The application provides mechanisms to input, process, and distribute content.
  40. Page Creation Pages are created automatically from a database of content types
  41. Feed Management Content input comes from RSS feeds harvested by gRSShopper
  42. Incoming content can be mapped to any of a variety of data types
  43. Course Components
    • The Daily
    http://connect.downes.ca/
  44. Course Components
    • Feed Harvesting
  45. The Students
    • The Course Map…
    http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/09/06/cck08-first-impressions/
      • Social Networks
      • blogs and blogging
      • wikis and collaborative writing
      • tagging and Digg and…
    • Web 2.0
    Stallman The Internet of 2007
  46. The Internet of 2009
    • Beyond Web 2.0
  47. Creating Course Components
    • Pageflakes Site
    http://www.pageflakes.com/ltc
  48. Widgets and Gadgets http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-land/
  49. Widget Landscape http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-land/
  50. Google Wave http://wave.google.com/
  51. Opera Unite http://blog.mynetx.net/windowslive/opera-unite-how-client-server-future-look-like/
  52. Windows Live Mesh
    • https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx
  53. Firefox Plain Old Web Server https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002
    • Networks of interactions (aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward) – syndication
    An ecology…
    • The personal learning centre
    http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/more_on_mles_and_ples.html Autonomy
    • The Network is Diverse – multiple views, multiple technologies
    http://flickr.com/photos/11242012@N07/1363575474
    • The Network is connected and interactive ( not ‘integrated’) – small pieces, loosely joined
    http://www.biography.org.uk/real.htm
    • The Network is open
    http://park.org/Japan/NTT/DM/html_f4/F4_10600_e.html
        • Stephen Downes
        • http://www.downes.ca

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