When Information and Interaction Change

When Information and Interaction Change Canadian Defence Academy George Siemens March 27, 2008

Information
Abundance=new approach
Knowing and sense making
Networks
Impact

Information: Currency and barometer of humanity’s progress

What happens when something of a primary nature changes?

We are defined by our interaction with information
Our interaction with information is defined by how we are connected to others

The gatekeepers
Institutions
Curriculum designers, educators
Assume to know what learners will need later

We fundamentally relate to information differently

Not created by select few
Learn lesson from news, media, music industry

Not controlled by select few
Learn lessons from PR, marketing, and politics

Information
Networks
Impact

Growth of information & changed interaction with information
Not possible on our own
Not possible with centralized model

Participatory sense making
Our world makes sense through our interactions with information and others
....(and in turn, their interactions with information and others)

Requires new approaches to making sense of abundance
“ Significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential”
Vannevar Bush, 1945

Associative trails between information

Associative trails between people

Information
Networks
Impact

Information becomes knowledge through connections

What is known is a function of how it’s connected/related to other known elements

What is known is known by its context
A play or movie
Suitability or inappropriateness:
not inherent...function of context

Educators foster (direct) the formation of connections

Social processes are a form of cognition
Salomon, xiv

Distributed cognition: thinking in networks

Are our institutions designed for this?
NO

By design, today’s institutions & systems serve to handle information of a different nature

Information
Networks
Impact

Let’s talk networks

Connectivism
Knowledge is held distributed within a network
Competence/learning occurs through network creation
Technology performs “grunt cognition”
Capacity to stay current
“ Knowing where/who”
Sense-making/pattern recognition

What do we mean when we say learning occurs in networks?

Neural

Conceptual t

Information & social networks

What then are important learning activities?
Creating a network to provide information when needed
Develop skills and mindsets to create this network
Social, technological, automatic (bots)

Information
Networks
Impact

What does this mean to learning design?

What about teaching/training?

Systemic changes
Openness
How we teach
How we determine content
Look at information life cycle – institutions need to be aware of points of production

Systemic changes
Technology for finding meaningful content (right now finding happens in social networks)
How we package content
How we accredit learning

Practicality?
Early stages
But already established trends
Networked learning is the path forward...as long as current information trends continue

www.elearnspace.org
www.connectivism.ca
www.knowingknowledge.com
Contact: gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org

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