Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

• Here are my highlights from Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

• Looks like I need to change how much I highlight to provide context, but the way Diigo works, in general, is close to how I like to make annotations.  I usually teach students NOT to use highlighters because they just make a nonsensical coloring book out of expensive textbooks.  I will make an acceptation for legal highlighting.  I think that the Diggo annotation function is much more useful for me, but without the context of the highlight, they make little sense once extracted.

• I say try this for a class.  The straight to blog function is pretty keen, and I will recommend this for my research projects as a way to collect and evaluate possible term paper resources as well as solicit dialog from peers/instructors.

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    • Or, Social Contructivism.
  • constructivism
  • George Siemens
  • These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
  • environments
  • novel
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    • This is not a change. Informal learning is how we *evolved* to learn.
  • no longer
  • learning organisms
  • know-where
  • change in human performance or performance potential
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    • cognitive/psychological processes
  • A central tenet of most learning theories is that learning occurs inside a person.
  • They also fail to describe how learning happens within organizations
  • rapid evaluation of knowledge
  • act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
  • We derive our competence from forming connections.
  • ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’
  • The ability to recognize and adjust to pattern shifts is a key learning task.
  • change its structure
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    • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • connecting specialized information sets
  • Nurturing and maintaining connections
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process.
  • knowledge management
  • Information flow
  • Social network analysis
  • This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.

     
• Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.