Connectivism: Rethinking Curriculum, Knowledge, & Learning EDUCAUSE San Antonio January 28, 2008 George Siemens Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Imposing a structural will on the future

Activity confined by structure

Activity confined by structure

Welcome to complexity Uncoupling cause-effect Multiple factors interacting Diversity and emergence

Uncoupling cause-effect

Multiple factors interacting

Diversity and emergence

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

On revolutions and innovations Thomas Kuhn: Conceptual Freeman Dyson: Tool Driven

Thomas Kuhn: Conceptual

Freeman Dyson: Tool Driven

Hell is the place where nothing connects” (TS Eliot)

Hell is the place where nothing connects”

(TS Eliot)

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

“ More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections so as to be able to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways.” (W. Cronon)

“ More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections so as to be able to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways.”

(W. Cronon)

Connectivism Knowledge as networked Learning as connecting, creating Systemic impact: designing education to optimize the value of networks

Knowledge as networked

Learning as connecting, creating

Systemic impact: designing education to optimize the value of networks

Connectivist taxonomy Awareness and Receptivity Connection Forming Contribution and Involvement Pattern Recognition & Meaning Making Praxis

Awareness and Receptivity

Connection Forming

Contribution and Involvement

Pattern Recognition & Meaning Making

Praxis

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Emergent curriculum (Osberg & Biesta)

Emergent curriculum

(Osberg & Biesta)

Curriculum: created, co-created, re-created

Curriculum:

created,

co-created,

re-created

Curriculum validation “ There is an emerging Fifth Estate, enabled by the internet, providing checks and balances.” (W. Dutton)

Curriculum validation

“ There is an emerging Fifth Estate, enabled by the internet, providing checks and balances.”

(W. Dutton)

Open Education Resources Content is commodity

Open Education Resources

Content is commodity

Collective Intelligence: “knowledge embedded within societies or large groups of individuals” Horizon Report 2008

Collective Intelligence: “knowledge embedded within societies or large groups of individuals”

Horizon Report 2008

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Complexification

Complexification

“ Networks are the language of our times, but our institutions are not programmed to understand them” (McCarthy, Miller, Skidmore)

“ Networks are the language of our times, but our institutions are not programmed to understand them”

(McCarthy, Miller, Skidmore)

What does it mean to know? To know is to be connected

To know is to be connected

Participatory sense-making (De Jaegher & Di Paolo)

Participatory sense-making

(De Jaegher & Di Paolo)

Network as filter

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Learning

Overlay or Transformation? Drivers Connectivism Curriculum Knowledge Learning Teachers & Classrooms

Overlay or Transformation?

Drivers

Connectivism

Curriculum

Knowledge

Learning

Teachers & Classrooms

Permeable walls Global networks

Permeable walls

Global networks

What education beginning to look like? The in-the-class expert Learners External learners External experts Multi-faceted content and perspectives In concept and media Diverse

The in-the-class expert

Learners

External learners

External experts

Multi-faceted content and perspectives

In concept and media

Diverse

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