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Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age. George Siemens gsiemens@elearnspace.org. What does a theory do?. Explains Guides Links knowledge and implementation Builds foundation of its own obsolesce. Knowledge.

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Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age

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  1. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age George Siemens gsiemens@elearnspace.org

  2. What does a theory do? • Explains • Guides • Links knowledge and implementation • Builds foundation of its own obsolesce

  3. Knowledge “To 'know' something is to be organized in a certain way, to exhibit patterns of connectivity. To 'learn' is to acquire certain patterns.” (Downes, 2006)

  4. What does it mean to Learn? Learning is about knowledge - to relate - to acquire - to connect - to create - to communicate

  5. Knower, content, context

  6. Knowledge Growth

  7. Softening Knowledge

  8. What does it mean to know?

  9. Containers and Patterns

  10. The quest for externality • Thoughts and language • Symbols • Tools to externalize and connect

  11. Seeing the Whole

  12. “…we suggest that the objects of thought, the very things upon which mental processes directly operate, are not always inside the brain…The cognitive processing that gives rise to mental experience may be something whose functioning cuts across the superficial physical boundaries between brain, body, and environment.” (Spivey et al, 2004)

  13. “The distributed cognition perspective aspires to rebuild cognitive science from the outside in,, beginning with the social and material setting of cognitive activity, so that culture, context, and history can be linked with the core concepts of cognition” (Hutchins, 2000)

  14. Internalization • Behaviourism • Cognitivism • Constructivism

  15. Connectivism • Externalization • Learning is chaotic, not structured • Learning is network formation (or pattern recognition) • Distributed • Networks filter • Adaptive

  16. It’s distributed

  17. Learning Networks • Internal (the architecture of a brain) • External (the nodes we connect)

  18. Context

  19. Learning Ecology

  20. Spaces and Structures

  21. “Humans create their cognitive powers in part by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers” (Hutchins, 2000)

  22. Knowledge Spaces

  23. Knowledge Structures

  24. www.elearnspace.org www.connectivism.ca ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress www.knowingknowledge.com

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