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John ConnellJohn Connell
Photo from CARFhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/
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John ConnellJohn Connell
Learning 2.0Learning 2.0The Power of Learning
in aNetworked World
John ConnellCisco Systems
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Those who struggle to create an adequate theory of
learning must admit that the process is much like
stumbling in the dark.
George Siemens
http://www.connectivism.ca/
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George Siemens
The developing structure of technology, neural research, institutional reorganization
(from hierarchy to network), and social impact of learning
under new ideologies, is evolving too rapidly to be
effectively detailed as “this is what it is.”
http://www.connectivism.ca/
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The moment this declaration is made, the environment has
shifted. We need to lay aside the desire to know, and
embrace instead the desire to continue to learn. Knowing is
no longer a destination. Knowing is a process of walking in varying degrees of alignment
with a dynamic environment.
George Siemens
http://www.connectivism.ca/
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The Nature of Interconnectedne
ss
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Networking is natural;
connecting is natural.
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Dissolution ofTime and Distance
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Self-OrganizingNetworks
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HyperNetworking:active, complex,
systematic
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Network Ecology
Learning Ecology
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decentralized
distributed
disintermediated
disaggregated
dis-integrated
democratic
dynamic
desegregated
Effective Networks are:
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SmokestackSchooling?
SmokestackSchooling?
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Information was scarce
Key sources of information were controlled by an elite
Teachers were seen as the founts of knowledge
The economy demanded mass -production of learning
The curriculum was centrally determined
Pedagogy meant ‘knowledge transfer’
The conditions
thattypified the
school...
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RF Mackenzie
“The great mistake we educationists make is to suppose that schools are
about education. It is not so....they are about control...”
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Woodrow Wilson
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal
education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the
privileges of liberal education and fit
themselves to perform specific difficult manual
tasks.”
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“Education is an old ramshackle
windmillthat goes on
flapping its great arms
long after the miller has left.”
RF Mackenzie
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A place where learning is the focus rather than teaching
A hub for educational resources and facilitation
A place for social learning (and solitary learning)
A focus for collaborative learning
An immersive environment
An open-learning environment built on negotation and mutual respect
An extended community resource
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Some Principles of Network
Learning?
Some Principles of Network
Learning?
Derived from the thinking and writing ofStephen Downes and George Siemens
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Learning and knowledge rest in
diversity of opinions
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Learning is a process of connecting
specialized nodes or information sources
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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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The Purpose of Education in an Interconnected
World
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“A good education system should have three purposes...”
Ivan Illich
from “Deschooling Society”
http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html
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Ivan Illich
“It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives....”
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Ivan Illich
“It should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them....”
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Ivan Illich
“It should furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known...”
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The current search for new educational funnels must be
reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational
webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to
transform each moment of his living into one of learning,
sharing, and caring.
Ivan Illich
The current search for new educational funnels must be
reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational
webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to
transform each moment of his living into one of learning,
sharing, and caring.
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affirmative transformation
extending human horizons
realizing personal and social potential
What should Education be about?
What should Education be about?
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What has Education too often been about?
What has Education too often been about?
maintaining the status quo
affirming social station
protecting and reinforcing the prevailing economic condition
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What should Technology be about?
What should Technology be about?
affirmative transformation
making the world a better place to live in
extending human capacity and capability for collective benefit
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What has Technology too often been about?
What has Technology too often been about?
killing and controlling
damaging our world
rendering people (and peoples) passive
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Jared Diamond
“The crux of success or failure is to know
which core values to hold on to, and which to discard or replace when times change.”
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Respect for Others
Tolera
ting
Differ
entn
ess
Self-
dete
rmin
ation
Com
passio
nEquity
Respect for
Natural Systems
Respect for
Future Generations
Respect for Rightsof Non-Humans VALUESVALUES
Derived from Jonathan Porritt“Capitalism as if the World Matters”
2005
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Some Thoughts
on NetworkLearning
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Criteria for Network
Learning...
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Connectivity
Diversity
Opennness
Autonomy
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Education is being displaced from its traditional confines of institutions to a generalized
formof learning that can take
place anytime and anyplace
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdfPithamber R. Polsani
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...a form of education whose site of production,
circulation and consumption is the network
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdfPithamber R. Polsani
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...education should be redefined as
preparedness for change...
...education should be redefined as
preparedness for change...
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdfPithamber R. Polsani
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...the knowledge economy or the information society is not a stable
structure with definitive functions, but a flexible condition where diverse
programs can be developed using fragments of knowledge from different
fields.
...the knowledge economy or the information society is not a stable
structure with definitive functions, but a flexible condition where diverse
programs can be developed using fragments of knowledge from different
fields.
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdfPithamber R. Polsani
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Knowledge is created...
Knowledge is grown...
Knowledge is personal...
Knowledge is socially mediated...
Knowledge is making
connections....
Knowledge is recognizing
patterns...
Knowledge is perception...
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Pedagogyfor
NetworkLearning?
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Paulo Freire on Pedagogy....
Paulo Freire
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Paulo Freire
...learners are active participants andco-constructorsof knowledge...
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Paulo Freire
...learning should be meaningful &
purposeful to the learners...
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Paulo Freire
...learning should have a critical
focus...
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Educators play the same sort of role in society as journalists. They
are aggregators, assimilators, analysts and advisors. They are
middle links in an ecosystem
Stephen Downes
http://www.downes.ca/
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Stephen Downes
Knowledge is not located in any
given place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted'
per se) but rather consists of the network of connections
formed from experience and interactions with a knowing
community...
http://www.downes.ca/
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Investigative learning
Problem-based learning
Community-based learning
Experiential learning
Self-directed learning
Dialogical Network-based learning
etc.........
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Some Trendsfor the Future?
New Horizon Reports 2007 & 2008Educause / New Media Consortium
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User-Created ContentUser-Created Content
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Social NetworkingSocial Networking
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MobilityMobility
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Metaverse / Extended Reality
Metaverse / Extended Reality
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Multiplayer Online Gaming
Multiplayer Online Gaming
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The Pragmatic WebThe Pragmatic Web
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Social Operating SystemsSocial Operating Systems
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Grassroots VideoGrassroots Video
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Data MashupsData Mashups
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Individual Production
Power of the Crowd
Data on an Epic Scale
Complex Participation
Network Effects
Openness
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
Mashups
Tagging / Folksonomy
RSS
The Web is the Platform
Social Networking
Web 2.0: A Shifting Context for Education
Web 2.0: A Shifting Context for Education
Paul Anderson (JISC) - “What is Web 2.0:Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education”
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Cult of the Amateur....?Cult of the Amateur....?
Andrew Keen
”...instead of creating masterpieces, these millions and millions of exuberant monkeys [Internet users]–many with no more talent in the creative arts than our primate cousins–are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.”
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Andrew Keen
“Wisdom of the crowd are internet activists who are stealing our culture from us” .
Cult of the Amateur....?Cult of the Amateur....?
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David Weinberger
Everything is Miscellaneous?Everything is
Miscellaneous?“I was an academic a long time ago, but I haven't forgotten how isolated I felt in the philosophical community before the Web. Ideas were scarce back then because space, time and
the limitations of paper made it hard to hear what others were
saying and well nigh impossible to talk with them about it....”
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David Weinberger
Everything is Miscellaneous?Everything is
Miscellaneous?“...today I am in contact with people
who come up with ideas I'd never have encountered, who are sources of wide expertise, who squirrel away in public on tiny topics, who spew a long tail of speculations with occasional insights that are worth the wait, who take me
apart because my logic is wrong or my biases are showing, and who support
my good ideas...”
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David Weinberger
Everything is Miscellaneous?Everything is
Miscellaneous?
“Without any doubt, I am in the richest, most stimulating, most fruitful
swirl of thought, knowledge, ideas and feeling ever in my life...far more
productive than when I was consigned to talking only with professionals and
credentialed experts.”
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“The Owl of Minerva spreads
its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
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Philosophy...always comes on the scene too
late..… When philosophy paints its
gray in gray, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s gray in
gray it cannot be rejuvenated but only
understood.”
GWF Hegel
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Learning 2.0Learning 2.0The Power of Learning
in aNetworked World
www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog
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Thank You