Connectivism sees learning as creating connections between nodes of information rather than knowledge residing in individuals. It emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and connectivity as important skills for the future. A connectivist pedagogy facilitates students learning from the world by making collaboration, creativity, and connectivity central to teaching.

1. "The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn
what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today."
George Siemens
What is Connectivism?

4. University of Manitoba - 2008 Course
Stephen Downes and George Siemens
1,900 Students | 12 Weeks | Open Course

5. The belief that knowledge exists in the world
rather than in the head of an individual

6. http://z.umn.edu/education
The belief that knowledge exists within systems which are
accessed through people participating in activities, the
belief that people learn through contact

7. One aspect of connectivism is its central metaphor
of a network with nodes and connections
Connectivism sees learning as the process of creating
connections and elaborating a network - Not all
connections are of equal strength

8. A node is anything that can be connected to another
node such as an organisation, information, data,
feelings and images

9. Examples of Connectivist Tools

10. What is a Networked Student?

11. What is a Connectivist Teacher?
A teacher who facilitates students to learn from
what is in the world's brain

12. Why teach with a Connectivist Pedagogy?
Collaboration, creativity, and connectivity are the
currencies of the future.
Making collaboration, creativity, and connectivity a
part of our teaching, empowers our students to
become active learners and teachers them the skills
needed for the 21st century.

13. Examples
Example 1: Collaboration
Linux
FoldIt
Moodle
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crowdsourcing_projects Example 2: Creating and Sharing

14. Examples
Example 3: Empowering
Individuals
Example 4: Active
Learning & Digital
JoiChi - MIT Media Lab director Literacy

15. Theory into Practice