elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 0 views
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how we communicate
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social environments
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Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.
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personal networks
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Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking.
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The organization and the individual are both learning organisms. Increased attention to knowledge management highlights the need for a theory that attempts to explain the link between individual and organizational learning.
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chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
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stimuli
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Behaviorism and cognitivism view knowledge as external to the learner and the learning process as the act of internalizing knowledge
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We derive our competence from forming connections.
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Interpretivism
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“Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge.
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Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything
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This analogy highlights a real challenge: “sensitive dependence on initial conditions” profoundly impacts what we learn and how we act based on our learning
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The ability to recognize and adjust to pattern shifts is a key learning task
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Learning, as a self-organizing process requires that the system (personal or organizational learning systems) “be informationally open, that is, for it to be able to classify its own interaction with an environment, it must be able to change its structure…” (p.4). Wiley and Edwards acknowledge the importance of self-organization as a learning process:
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Self-organization on a personal level is a micro-process of the larger self-organizing knowledge constructs created within corporate or institutional environments
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personal learning network
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The capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge economy.
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create an integrated whole. Alterations within the network have ripple effects on the whole
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“nodes always compete for connections because links represent survival in an interconnected world”
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Weak Ties
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Nodes (can be fields, ideas, communities)
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
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not entirely under the control of the individual.
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the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.
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Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning
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Creating, preserving, and utilizing information flow should be a key organizational activity
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ecolog
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ecology
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Karen Stephenson’s “quantum theory of trust” which “explains not just how to recognize the collective cognitive capability of an organization, but how to cultivate and increase it”.
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The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
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This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization)
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This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
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When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skil
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity