1. CULTURAL HISTORIC ACTIVITY THEORY
&
CONNECTIVISM
TW SIMILAR OR DIFFER
O ENT
PERSPECTIVES?
BY
PAULA ANDREA ROJAS & DIANA CEBALLOS
ICT Course
Masters in Language Teaching & Learning
2013

2. CULTUR HISTORIC
AL
ACTIVITY THEORY CONNECTIVISM
• From this perspective teaching • Action is determined by the degree
practices should be adapted and of relevance that contents have for
modfied to students’ real lives needs an indivitual. “The more closely the
because knowledge is constantly content is positioned to the point of
evolving. doing-need, the more effective the
learning process”.(p.37).
• Education in virtual environments
promotes the developmet of higher • Connectivism promotes network
meta-cognitive skills and more learning which allows people to
complex mental processes which select what they want to learn and
results in better communicative create connections that allow for
skills. more significant learning than
individual parts.
ICT course
Masters in language teaching & learning
2013

3. CULTUR HISTORIC
AL
ACTIVITY THEORY CONNECTIVISM
• ZDP determines how interactions • Contribution and involvement play
and mediations play an important and important role in the ways
role in how learning takes place as a learners akcnowledge each other’s
process that requires mutual ideas and resources, and become
collaboration in problem-solving capable of choosing their own
situations. learning tools.
• Semiotic mediations allow for • Learners become capable of making
intellectual development in the way meaning, understand it, and
they foster interaction and meta- transform it as a result of their
cognitive processes. interaction with it.
ICT course
Masters in language teaching & learning
2013

4. CULTUR HISTORIC
AL
ACTIVITY THEORY CONNECTIVISM
• Learning occurs after the • Individuals become
processes of internalization and capable of recognizing
externalization that is first the
result of the exchange of
changing patterns in
knowledge with peers and people knowledge and information
around and then the ownership and they move from passive
of that knowledge after a consumers to active
process of organization, contributors of the
classification, analysis,
comparison, reflection, etc.
communication network.
ICT course
Masters in language teaching & learning
2013