The document discusses the profound impact of digital technologies on education, emphasizing that learning is a process of becoming rather than acquiring knowledge. It highlights the importance of learner-centered approaches, personal learning environments, and the necessity for educational institutions to adapt to the changes brought about by social networking and web 2.0. The text argues that a refusal to engage with these changes risks making traditional schooling increasingly irrelevant to students' lives and their ways of sharing knowledge.

1. Graham Attwell Learning and Knowledge maturing

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

3. Changing the way we live, the way we produce things, the way we communicate, the way we learn

4. and the way we develop and share knowledge

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

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)

14. The Old Transmission Model

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

16. 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 The Concept Stephen Downes

17. Immersive learning Learning by doing Stephen Downes

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

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

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

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

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 of knowledge

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

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

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

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

28. Using whatever tools and devices which the learners choose

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

30. PLEs can help in the recognition of informal learning

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

32. the PLE will challenge the existing education systems and institutions

33. PLEs and the institution Scott Wilson

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