Connectivism: A learning theory for the Digital Age - 3 views
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We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
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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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the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.
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Connectivism is driven by the understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations. New information is continually being acquired. The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
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Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
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Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
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Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning
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Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
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Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
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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.
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Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
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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 skill.
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Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity. How people work and function is altered when new tools are utilized
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Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era.
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Journal article about Connectivism (may be useful for Assignment 3 part B)
