Knowledge maturing and learning

Slide 1: Learning and Knowledge maturing Graham Attwell

Slide 2: We are at present undergoing a deep and prolonged industrial revolution based on digital technologies

Slide 3: Changing the way we live, the way we produce things, the way we communicate, the way we learn

Slide 4: and the way we develop and share knowledge

Slide 12: Learning is a process of becoming rather than a process of acquiring Stephen Downes

Slide 13: Learning is a process of sense making and values To learn is to instantiate patterns of connectivity in the mind (in the neural net)

Slide 14: The Old Transmission Model

Slide 15: The way networks learn is the way people learn… • they are both complex systems • the organization of each depends on connections Connectivism (George Siemens) Stephen Downes

Slide 16: The Concept • Learner centered Learning is centered around the interests of the learner Learning is owned by the learner This implies learner choice of subjects, materials, learning styles Stephen Downes

Slide 17: • Immersive learning Learning by doing Stephen Downes

Slide 18: Connected Learning The computer connects the student to the rest of the world Learning occurs through connections with other learners Learning is based on conversation and interaction Stephen Downes

Slide 20: The reaction of education systems and institutions to the rise of social networking has been at best bewilderment, at worst downright hostility

Slide 21: a refusal to engage in these issues risks school becoming increasingly irrelevant to the everyday lives of many young people

Slide 22: and particularly irrelevant to the ways in which they communicate and share knowledge

Slide 23: Web 2.0 allows young people to be active co-creators of knowledge Web 2.0 allows young people to be active co-creators

Slide 24: We have to review the industrial schooling model including the organisation of institutions and pedagogy and curriculum

Slide 25: and, above all, systems of assessment which fail to support learning

Slide 26: Personal Learning Environments are based on the idea that learning will take place in different contexts and situations and will not be provided by a single learning provider

Slide 27: the idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that learning is continuing and seeks to provide tools to support that learning

Slide 28: Using whatever tools and devices which the learners choose

Slide 29: It also recognises the role of the individual in organising their own learning

Slide 30: PLEs can help in the recognition of informal

Slide 31: The promise of Personal Learning Environments could be to extend access to educational technology to everyone who wishes to organise their own learning.

Slide 32: the PLE will challenge the existing education systems and institutions

Slide 33: PLEs and the institution Scott Wilson

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