Leading Learning

On Becoming: The cognitive and social impact of technology George Siemens Leading Learning Toronto, Ontario May 5, 2008 Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies

What does technology do?
Cognition
Socialization
What can we do together?
On becoming human...or techno-human
Finding balance

Technology allows us to

be intelligent

to “do” cognition

together

Technology allows us to

together

But...

Carriers of patterns of previous reasoning
Roy Pea

Cognition
Socialization
Finding balance

Haxby, Hoffman, & Goggini (2000)

Loss of control

Cognitive load

Multi-perspective

Distributed

Collective

Connective

The promise?
How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

The promise?

The outcome
4000 registered
“ a few dozen” contributed
Finally, professional writers hired

Digital Maoism?
The Wikipedia is far from being the only online fetish site for foolish collectivism. There's a frantic race taking place online to become the most "Meta" site, to be the highest level aggregator, subsuming the identity of all other sites.

“ Diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality”
Scott Page

Cognition
Socialization
Finding balance

Identity

Belonging

Connectedness

Relational

Cognition
Socialization
Finding balance

Our opportunities for distributed cognition, to learn, interact, and share
far exceeds the design of education

Our ability to act, influence, and change
far exceeds our ability to understand

Same networks of information also carry misinformation

Cognition
Socialization
Finding balance

Technology-mediated learning
No difference
...but tools carry different patterns of previous reasoning

Technology as extension

Technology as humanity

Return to humanity?

Rise of techno-humanity? http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

Privacy & Security

Baja Beach Club

Cognition
Socialization
Finding balance

What is the role of education?

Stakeholders

Learner
Educator
Institution
Society
Organizations

Values to preserve
Deep understanding
Transformative impact of learning
Being human
Students as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values (Harvard)

To embrace
Exploration/experimentation
Broad spectrum of learning
Reality of thin classroom walls
Collaboration and sharing as educators, learners

Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.org
www.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/
gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org

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