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Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 10 views

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  • Social media like Twitter provide a few examples of how teacher’s roles might change.
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      CJ Marchione on 15 Jun 14
       
      Yes; it turns out that people can use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to share news and other important information. Not to knock Farmville, but there's a lot more going on than that!
  • If one Twitterer posts a link to an article in NY Times, her followers may find the article useful and then respond by re-tweeting the article.
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      CJ Marchione on 15 Jun 14
       
      And some users may distribute a different article in response to counter its points... bringing multiple points of view to light!
  • This is basically what Google did for the web – instead of fully defined and meta-described resources in a database, organized according to subject areas (i.e. Yahoo at the time), intelligence was applied at the point of search.
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      CJ Marchione on 15 Jun 14
       
      That's pretty much the point of SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) Google's engineers have developed complex algorithms to find that meaning for us, and have automated scripts that execute them... and they seem to do a reliable job!
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  • My view is that change in education needs to be systemic and substantial.
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      CJ Marchione on 15 Jun 14
       
      Systematic and substantial, even if questions remain unanswered; some outcomes aren't clear. I'm reminded of the Louisiana Purchase. We don't know what we might find, but the opportunity's so good that we can't pass it up.
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

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      CJ Marchione on 04 Jun 14
       
      Every time I have interviewed for a job in software engineering, I have been asked questions about how I keep up with changing software development approaches and continue to learn new programming languages, databasing concepts/techniques, and other relevant skills. Copious amounts of informal learning truly is a must, in the world of software programming!
  • Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “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” (p.11).
  • Content of knowledge – Is knowledge actually knowable? Is it directly knowable through human experience?
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  • Observable behaviour is more important than understanding internal activities Behaviour should be focused on simple elements: specific stimuli and responses Learning is about behaviour change
  • Cindy Buell details this process: “In cognitive theories, knowledge is viewed as symbolic mental constructs in the learner's mind, and the learning process is the means by which these symbolic representations are committed to memory.”
  • What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning?
  • chaos states that the meaning exists – the learner's challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden
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      CJ Marchione on 04 Jun 14
       
      Learning: a game of solving the riddles of reality?
  • Luis Mateus Rocha (1998) defines self-organization as the “spontaneous formation of well organized structures, patterns, or behaviors, from random initial conditions.” (p.3).
  • Albert-László Barabási states that “nodes always compete for connections because links represent survival in an interconnected world” (2002, p.106). This competition is largely dulled within a personal learning network, but the placing of value on certain nodes over others is a reality.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
  • Landauer and Dumais (1997) explore the phenomenon that “people have much more knowledge than appears to be present in the information to which they have been exposed”.
  • This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
  • Mainstream media organizations are being challenged by the open, real-time, two-way information flow of blogging.
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      CJ Marchione on 04 Jun 14
       
      And hopefully, we are not sacrificing too many truths in the name of appeasement.
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John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age - 18 views

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  • Corporate research centers and high-tech companies are increasingly providing adjunct professors, guest lectures, thesis supervision, richly textured case histories to the universities. They are also providing consulting and sabbatical opportunities for professors and graduate students, thus providing opportunities for the academy to become better grounded in real world problems. Although such intermixing is not fundamentally new, the degree to which it is happening is new and various kinds of cross linkages are growing.
  • What that medium will evolve into, believe me, none of us really know.
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      CJ Marchione on 27 May 14
       
      A corporation purchases another for billions of dollars, for the purpose of investing in a medium with intense transformation potential. The uncertainty of what those transformations will be does not deter them. This is the power of increased convenience in communications: it is potentially of great service to billions of people, and worth more green bills than each of us shall witness in our lifetimes.
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