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Christophe Gigon

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

www.elearnspace.org/...connectivism.htm

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shared by Christophe Gigon on 09 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
    • Rose Molter
      Rose Molter on 30 Aug 11
       
      I aggree that as teachers we need to realize that technology has changed instruction and the way that our students learn and the way that we learn and instruct.
    • Orlando Gonzalez
      Orlando Gonzalez on 13 Mar 12
       
      Technology has always changed the way we live. How did we respond to changes in the past? One thought is that some institutions, some businesses disappeared, while others, who took advantage of the new tech, appeared to replace the old. It will happen again and we as educators need to lead the way.
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      With technology our students brains are wired differently and they can multi-task and learn in multiple virtual environments all at once. This should make us think about how we present lessons, structure learning and keep kids engaged.
    • Mike Burnett
      Mike Burnett on 18 Aug 14
       
      Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
  • Information development was slow.
  • Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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  • Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience.
  • Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Principles of connectivism:
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
    • Rose Molter
      Rose Molter on 30 Aug 11
       
      I think it is important for us to realize the importance of connections.
  • The organization and the individual are both learning organisms.
  • Classrooms which emulate the “fuzziness”
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      So what does this look like? I feel that when I attempt this, evaluators and administrators don't necessarily understand. They want a neat, quiet, well-managed, orderly classroom.
    • Maureen Curran
      Maureen Curran on 24 Mar 12
       
      If new learning approaches are required, then why are we still being evaluated in a linear way?
  • John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
  • Knowledge is growing exponentially
  • amount of knowledge
  • is doubling every 18 months
  • To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
  • (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
  • know-where
  • learning
  • a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world”
  • Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned.
  • The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
  • knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner
  • What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning
  • An entirely new approach is needed.
  • Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order.
  • Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
  • Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything.
  • If the underlying conditions used to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct as it was at the time it was made.
  • principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole.
  • Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
  • Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual
  • decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations
  • The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
  • Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism do not attempt to address the challenges of organizational knowledge and transference.
  • The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow.
  • This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
  • This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Diverse teams of varying viewpoints are a critical structure for completely exploring ideas
  • An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy surviva
  • As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.
    • BalancEd Tech
      BalancEd Tech on 25 Mar 12
       
      Access is not enough. Prior knowledge and understanding is needed. Processing is needed. Evaluation of processing and outputs is needed. Feeding that back into the "system" is needed.
  • learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
  • learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
Bill Genereux

Children's school performance tied to family 'type' - 20 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...100720162317.htm

learning teaching family parents home psychology research relationships

shared by Bill Genereux on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 21 Jul 10
     
    Home relationship patterns predict student success at school.
Roland Gesthuizen

Fractals without a Computer! | Good Math, Bad Math - 32 views

scientopia.org/...fractals-without-a-computer

fractals computer camera

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • We tend to think of fractals in computational terms, because in general we generate fractal images using digital computers. But you don’t need to. Fractals are actually fascinatingly ubiquitous, and you can produce them in lots of different ways – not just digitally.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 10
     
    "In this video, what they've done is set up three screens, in a triangular pattern, and set them to display the input from a camera.. If you watch, they're able to manipulate it to get Julia fractals, Sierpinski triangles, and several other really famous fractals. "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Nov 10
     
    Fractals without a Computer
Gregory Louie

Understandings of Consequence > Curriculum Modules > Ecosystems - 1 views

pzweb.harvard.edu/...ecosystems

Education

shared by Gregory Louie on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Gregory Louie on 13 Sep 09
     
    This curriculum module contains lessons to be infused into a broader unit on ecosystems. It is divided into six sections. Each section addresses one of a set of six broad and persistent misunderstandings that students have about ecosystems. These misunderstandings stem from how students reason about the nature of causality. The module sections introduce understandings about the nature of causality in ecosystems that students need to develop in order to overcome the misunderstanding and to deeply understand ecosystem concepts. Research shows that students who are taught about the nature of the causal patterns while learning science achieve a deeper understanding than students who are just taught the science
Lee-Anne Patterson

Official Google Blog: Adding search power to public data - 0 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...arch-power-to-public-data.html

google data visualization search

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Apr 09
     
    The data we're including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers' salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we've used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division. They did the hard work! We just made the data a bit easier to find and use.
Barbara Moose

Word List Generator - 0 views

www.wordlistgenerator.net

generator literacy phonics spelling reading language

shared by Barbara Moose on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Moose on 08 May 09
     
    Choose the type of word you want based on consonant and vowel patterns
Judy Robison

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 120 views

illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx

math

shared by Judy Robison on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kathy Favazza on 01 Feb 10
     
    awesome dynamic paper from illuminations for use with geometry has spinners, graph paper, tessellations, nets, number lines. You can customize and print or download jpeg for insertion into another file.
  • Judy Robison on 14 Mar 13
     
    "Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."
Eric G. Young

Domestic Violence Often Starts With Pet Abuse « Civil Rights & Wrongs - 3 views

civilrightsandwrongs.wordpress.com/...ce-often-starts-with-pet-abuse

domestic violence animal cruelty cycle of violence theory

shared by Eric G. Young on 24 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Eric G. Young on 24 Jan 10
     
    In the United States today, many experts (though not all) accept some version of what is known as "The Cycle of Violence" theory. First introduced in the 1970s by researcher Lenore Walker, the "Cycle of Violence" theory attempts to isolate patterns of abusive behavior in relationships by a cycle of predictable stages. Abuse of pets, however, is often part of an abusive relationship, or is a precursor to more serious forms of person to person abuse.
Chris Bigenho

Google Ngram Viewer - 76 views

ngrams.googlelabs.com

research naisac11

shared by Chris Bigenho on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Bigenho on 20 Dec 10
     
    Very cool way to look at the evolution of words and language. Enter a word or phrase, select a time period and language then look at the frequency pattern of that word or phrase as it is distributed throughout the books that have been digitized by Google. A simple search with computer and Computer shows very different results as the tools is also case-sensitive (parts of speech).
Jac Londe

Keys to long life: Longevity study unearths surprising answers - 41 views

www.physorg.com/...s-life-longevity-unearths.html

long life vie santé

shared by Jac Londe on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Keys to long life
  • Friedman and Leslie R. Martin , a 1996 UCR alumna (Ph.D.) and staff researchers, have published those findings in "The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study" (Hudson Street Press, March 2011).
  • It's never too late to choose a healthier path, Friedman and Martin said. The first step is to throw away the lists and stop worrying about worrying. "Some of the minutiae of what people think will help us lead long, healthy lives, such as worrying about the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in the foods we eat, actually are red herrings, distracting us from the major pathways," Friedman said. "When we recognize the long-term healthy and unhealthy patterns in ourselves, we can begin to maximize the healthy patterns." "Thinking of making changes as taking 'steps' is a great strategy," Martin advised. "You can't change major things about yourself overnight. But making small changes, and repeating those steps, can eventually create that path to longer life."
Martin Burrett

Rotational Symmetry - 60 views

www.mathsonline.co.uk/...rotation.html

rotational symmetry maths

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Aug 11
     
    Simple rotational symmetry tool which lets you put colours into four quadrants creating rotational patterns. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Randolph Hollingsworth

Maps of Citations Uncover New Fields of Scholarship - Research - The Chronicle of Highe... - 33 views

chronicle.com/...128938

citations interdisciplinary cross-disciplinary

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 13 Sep 11
     
    ...by a a team led by two biologists, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, and a physicist, Martin Rosvall,- "The work builds off the thinking behind the Eigenfactor score, a method of assessing journals' relative influence that Mr. Bergstrom and Mr. West unveiled in 2007. The Eigenfactor algorithm takes into account the source of citations. A citation in a high-profile journal like Nature, for instance, counts for more than a citation from a journal only a handful of people ever see or cite. That's a more nuanced way to evaluate a journal's standing than the widely used impact factor, which tracks how many citations a journal gets but does not weight the sources."
  • Ruth Howard on 14 Sep 11
     
    Wow researchers can engage with the human side of research thru viewing connected networks, they can find the patterns in data sets and discover new fields as they converge amongst many possibilities... You can see overview where your research fits in etc too.
  • Jess Hazlewood on 14 Sep 11
     
    This is fascinating. I'm trying to figure out if this is something that could become useful to undergraduates learning about research. It seems like it has potential to reveal connections, trends, and patterns for students just starting in a discipline. It certainly makes disciplines seem less rigid and confined (which I think is a good thing).
Jac Londe

Scientists make quantum breakthrough - 25 views

www.physorg.com/...ists-quantum-breakthrough.html

science news physics technology research tech education quantum scientists

shared by Jac Londe on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that atoms can be guided in a laser beam and possess the same properties as light guided in an optical communications fiber.
  • Abstract Speckle patterns produced by multiple independent light sources are a manifestation of the coherence of the light field. Second-order correlations exhibited in phenomena such as photon bunching, termed the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect, are a measure of quantum coherence. Here we observe for the first time atomic speckle produced by atoms transmitted through an optical waveguide, and link this to second-order correlations of the atomic arrival times. We show that multimode matter-wave guiding, which is directly analogous to multimode light guiding in optical fibres, produces a speckled transverse intensity pattern and atom bunching, whereas single-mode guiding of atoms that are output-coupled from a Bose–Einstein condensate yields a smooth intensity profile and a second-order correlation value of unity. Both first- and second-order coherence are important for applications requiring a fully coherent atomic source, such as squeezed-atom interferometry.
  • Australian National University
Martin Burrett

Diffy Game - Find the difference - 43 views

nlvm.usu.edu/...frames_asid_326_g_1_t_1.html

maths find the difference puzzle game whiteboard resources

shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Jul 11
     
    A useful maths puzzle where players complete the pattern by finding the difference between two numbers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

Reflectional symmetry whiteboard resource - 45 views

www.mathsonline.co.uk/...reflection.html

reflectional symmetry symmetry mirror maths

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Jul 11
     
    Simple reflectional symmetry tool which lets children/teachers put colours into four quadrants creating reflecting patterns. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

Flame Painter | online paint program - 61 views

www.escapemotions.com/...index.html

graphics paint design tools interactive art

shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Jun 11
     
    Make beautiful and interesting patterns and art with this great tool which makes virtual flames. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art,+Craft+&+Design
Roland Gesthuizen

101 Affirmations For Children - Abundance Tapestry - 142 views

www.abundancetapestry.com/101-affirmations-for-children

affirmations psychology

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 21 Oct 11
     
     compiled a list of affirmations for children recently from a wish to help mine with self-mastery and positive programming . As adults, many of our limiting thought patterns can be attributed to childhood conditioning or having unconsciously adopted negative societal beliefs. 
Martin Burrett

The Bread Art Project - 79 views

breadartproject.com/#/workshops

art design flash image

shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Nov 11
     
    An interesting offbeat art project where you can toast virtual bread with patterns and even upload images to burn on your bread. Use in science when discussing irreversible changes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Sean Nash

Avoiding "Unmitigated Disasters" - nashworld - 41 views

nashworld.edublogs.org/...avoiding-unmitigated-disasters

1:1 edtech education failure mission one-to-one PD planning professional development schools strategy technology vision

shared by Sean Nash on 01 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Sean Nash on 01 Dec 13
     
    "After stumbling upon the article, "Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster,' says school principal," in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly predictable patterns surrounding stories of failed "innovation" in digital learning initiatives. Schools have been assigning computers to each child for some time now. And still, we continue to see stories like this in the media. In short: we can do better than this."
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