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