In this presentation I describe how new technologies are being designed in order to adapt to a rapidly changing and complex world. In this picture, learning is not a matter of knowledge acquisition ...
In this presentation I describe how new technologies are being designed in order to adapt to a rapidly changing and complex world. In this picture, learning is not a matter of knowledge acquisition and memorization, but rather, personal development in such a way that we become able to navigate and work with this knowledge and content in the same manner, with the same capacities, as the expert. This is a type of learning that is based on the creation of tools that support a mesh network; this network, in turn, supports the conversation and interactions that foster the development of an expert character. Audio and more at http://www.downes.ca/presentation/234
ElginMan2007What are you people talking about? This are crap! This presentation is EXACTLY what most of us in training and development decry...putting a ppt online and calling it learning...How about some explanation of this stuff?1 year ago
BeingSocial.Us at BeingSocial.UsThe 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...3 years ago
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?
The Three Body Problem http://www.dynamical-systems.org/threebody/index.html http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three-body_problem
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
The three Ls: language, logic and learning
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
Thinking for yourself Critical thinking and reflection
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
It’s a river, not a reservoir Surfing Sensing Experiencing pattern recognition
The Idea of the PLE… http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt
Plex Personal Learning Environment Example http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/
Collecting and Filtering RSS http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm
RSS Writr http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
FeedForward http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/feedforward/
Second Theme
Learning…. vs the right learning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin
Understanding Interdependence
= no simple principles
= no simple cause & effect
Me and my network of friends Aggregate Remix Repurpose Feed Forward
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
The (Second) Butterfly Thesis http://www.flickr.com/photos/durhamskywriter/2858347734/
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.”
Azlan
www.freepolyphonicringtones.org/
www.free-nokia-ringtones.net/ 2 years ago
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... 3 years ago