Connectivismtlc

Connectivism: theory or phenomenon Modelling 21st Century Learning Frances Bell, Salford Business School francesbell on Twitter http://www.francesbell.wordpress.com Slideshow is at http://www.slideshare.net/francesbell

What is coming up
Changing socio-technical context
Impact on practice – for teachers and learners
What is Connectivism?
Connectivist Teachers
Connectivist Learners
Innovation, dialogue and modelling
Some ways to get engaged

Changing socio-technical context
‘ Internet of things’ – emerging technologies ‘talking’ to each other
Implications for student practice as scholars and researchers
http://youtu.be/sfEbMV295Kk#t=0m41s

Changing socio-technical context – impact on practice
How can we make sense of our and students’ use of the Internet and emerging technologies in learning?

Our hopes and fears in a brave new world? http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4284879663_62e5738635_m.jpg

Returning to our question
How can we make sense of our and students’ use of the Internet and emerging technologies in learning?
(and to leverage our new skills)
We can model effective technology-enabled learning
We can learn from our students by engaging in true dialogue about our uses of these technologies

What is Connectivism? http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm George Siemens Stephen Downes

Connectivist Teachers
Fourth iteration of CCK course running CCK11
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge – a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ran for 12 weeks from September 2008 http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=Connectivism+CCK08&meta=&fp=4f5d09baf13b1669
2200 people enrolled
What happened?
Learning about theory of connectivism
Experiencing networked learning within diverse group/network
OR
Creating/ extending their own personal learning network

My take on this
Connectivism had impact
Not as theory
But through the phenomenon of networked enthusiastic practitioners trying to explore and make use of concepts in their day to day practice
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/902/1664
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/netlc/past/nlc2010/abstracts/Creanor.html

The Networked student http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

Innovation, dialogue and modelling Teacher Learning Innovating Modelling Student Reflecting Learning Innovating Dialogue and learning A constructive conversation Example – documenting a project in Web 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/francesbell/sets/72157616064980620/show/

Some ways to get engaged
Check out Stephen Downes OL Daily http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm , subscribe at http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/login.cgi?action=Register
Follow some interesting people from your discipline on Twitter or their blogs
Build your own valued network

Any points for discussion? http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5067294524_134fce8ff2_t.jpg

(for reference) Principles of connectivism:
Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
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the sharing of cognitive tasks between people and technology
coping with rapid change in the ‘information ecology’
consideration of the impact of theories of networks, complexity and chaos

Credits
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm (Siemens)
Stephen Downes wealth of resources at http://downes.ca/

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