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Presentation slides from George Siemens on Connectivism

Web 2.0 is about participation. Web 3.0 is about linked data and the semantic web. The xweb will have a far greater impact on individuals than web 2.0/3.0. Not everyone is a blogger or contributes videos to youtube or edits wikipedia. However, a growing percentage of the population uses the mobile web. Web 2.0/3.0 are a promise of change. The xweb is an instantiation of change, an expression of how technology can alter how people relate to each other, to information, and how the physical world becomes yet another domain for technology to dominate.

Reformers have largely worked within, rather than on, the system of education. Working within the system has resulted in status-quo preservation, even when reformists felt they were being radical. Illich failed to account for how educational institutions are integrated into society. Freire spoke with a humanity and hope that was largely overlooked by a comfortable developed world incapable of seeing the structure and impact of its system. To create and nurture change, a message must not only be true for an era, but it must also resonate with the needs, passions, interests, realities, and hopes of the audience to whom the message is directed.

George Siemens was gracious enough to be our guest in EC&I 831 on January 20th, 2009 where he gave us an overview of the changing views of knowledge in society, talked about Connectivism, and described the recent CCK08 course.

he Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008

George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate the course. The support wiki for the course provides additional information.