connecitivism: curriculum, knowledge, learning
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Presentation to EDUCAUSE, San Antonio ELI 2008 ConferenceTRANSCRIPT
Connectivism:Rethinking Curriculum, Knowledge,
& Learning
EDUCAUSESan Antonio
January 28, 2008George Siemens
Learning Technologies Centrewww.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
Imposing a structural will on the future
Activity confined by structure
Welcome to complexity
Uncoupling cause-effect
Multiple factors interacting – Diversity and emergence
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
On revolutions and innovations
Thomas Kuhn: Conceptual
Freeman Dyson: Tool Driven
Hell is the place where nothing connects” (TS Eliot)
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
“More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections so as to be able to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways.”
(W. Cronon)
Connectivism
• Knowledge as networked
• Learning as connecting, creating
• Systemic impact: designing education to optimize the value of networks
Connectivist taxonomyAwareness and Receptivity
Connection Forming
Contribution and Involvement
Pattern Recognition & Meaning Making
Praxis
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
Emergent curriculum(Osberg & Biesta)
Curriculum: created,
co-created, re-created
Curriculum validation“There is an emerging Fifth Estate, enabled by the internet, providing checks and balances.”
(W. Dutton)
Open Education Resources
Content is commodity
Collective Intelligence: “knowledge embedded within societies or large groups of individuals”
Horizon Report 2008
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
Complexification
“Networks are the language of our times, but our institutions are not programmed to understand them”
(McCarthy, Miller, Skidmore)
What does it mean to know?
To know is to be connected
Participatory sense-making(De Jaegher & Di Paolo)
Network as filter
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
Learning
1. Overlay or Transformation?2. Drivers3. Connectivism4. Curriculum5. Knowledge6. Learning7. Teachers & Classrooms
Permeable walls
Global networks
What education beginning to look like?
• The in-the-class expert• Learners• External learners• External experts• Multi-faceted content and perspectives– In concept and media
• Diverse
Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.orgwww.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.cahttp://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/