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    1. Connectives and Collectives : Learning alone, together D2L Fusion 2008 George Siemens July 21, 2008
      • a box,
      • an encyclopedia,
      • a news site,
      • a marketplace
    2. Dabbawala: One who carries the box
    3.  
    4.  
    5. Seekers, solvers, and a marketplace
    6. The big question:
      • How can people and computers be connected so that-collectively-they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
    7. Most thinking on working / thinking/ learning together is wrong
    8. huh?
      • Don’t fight the internet
        • Eric Schmidt
      • Don’t fight human nature
    9. Humanity is overlooked
    10. Basis of collective intelligence is “the self”
    11. Brain is physical and confined
    12. Mind is extensible
    13. Mind is flexible
    14. Mind is plastic
    15. Mind is external (as well as internal)
    16. Mind is social
    17. Social is external
    18. The individual mind must communicate
    19. Language
    20. Symbols
      • Technology as language??
    21. Concepts held (partly) externally, expressed socially
    22.  
    23. Where do we end and our tools begin ?
      • “The intelligences…are distributed …across minds, persons, and the symbolic and physical environments”
      • Roy Pea
    24. Rubber hands… … and bananas
    25. Polysensory (Paul Bach-y-Rita)
    26.  
    27. Our mind accepts and integrates with, well, all kinds of stuff
    28. with tools
    29. with language
    30. with technology
    31. and symbols
      • “Literates can rotate concepts in their mind abstractly, orals embed their thoughts in stories”
      • Crain 2007
    32. But.
    33. Our integration/extension involves a protection of self
    34. What is self?
    35. The self is not created through socialization
    36. It is shaped and expressed through socialization
    37. Connectives : autonomy of self (mosaic)
    38. Collectives : subsumption of self (melting pot)
    39. Coercion to the norm
    40. Achievement of the complex
    41. Innovation is deviation
    42. Freedom vs. Control
      • Multiplicity of networks
    43. Nature of type of connections
      • “ Intense connectivity can homogenize the pool …high cohesiveness can lead to the sharing of common rather than novel information”
      • Uzzi, Spiro (2005)
    44.  
      • “ Diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality, out-perform groups of like-minded experts”
      • Scott Page
    45. Networked Individualism
    46. Pedagogical implications?
    47.  
      • Do we need to organize ourselves differently in a networked world than we have traditionally?
    48. Design of technology
    49. Process of teaching and learning
      • “ a new medium that adds means and opportunities for previously unconnected others to communicate will have positive effects on weak ties…in particular in laying an infrastructure of latent ties (ones that exist technically but have not yet been activated)”
      • Haythornthwaite (2002)
      • “ To ‘know’ something is to be organized in a certain way, to exhibit patterns of connectivity .
      • “ To ‘learn’ is to acquire certain patterns ”
      • Stephen Downes
    50. So this is learning?
    51.  
    52. How about…
    53.  
    54. That’s a bit better…
    55.  
    56. Almost, but something is still missing…
    57.  
    58. Associative trails of content
    59. Ideas lead to ideas
    60. Duh.
    61. Freedom of fragmentation
    62. End of grand narrative
    63. Personally created narrative
    64. Personal context narrative
    65. Frustration of fragmentation
      • “gossip, people curiosity, and small talk, all of which are seemingly non-functional…
      • and are often popularly understood as mere distraction or deviation…
      • are in essence the human version of social grooming in primates”
      • Zufekci (Dunbar)(2008)
    66. Challenge: preserve unique values of connectives and collectives
    67. Role of educators
      • Design for varying levels of connectedness
      • Value collective effort (contribution to whole)
    68. Technology capabilities and human sociability outstrip design of institutions
      • a box – social and procedural
      • an encyclopedia – a storehouse
      • a news site – a flow
      • a marketplace – a forum of exchange
    69. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, ah man, it’s a Massive Open Online Course
      • Connectivism Online Course
      • with Stephen Downes
      • http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
    70. 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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