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When Information and Interaction Change
Canadian Defence Academy
George SiemensMarch 27, 2008
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
Information: Currency and barometer of humanity’s
progress
What happens when something of a primary nature changes?
We are defined by our interaction with information
Our interaction with information is defined by how we are connected to others
The gatekeepers
Institutions
Curriculum designers, educators
Assume to know what learners will need later
We fundamentally relate to information differently
Not created by select few
Learn lesson from news, media, music industry
Not controlled by select few
Learn lessons from PR, marketing, and politics
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
Growth of information & changed interaction with information
Not possible on our own
Not possible with centralized model
Participatory sense making
Our world makes sense through our interactions with information and others
....(and in turn, their interactions with information and others)
Requires new approaches to making sense of abundance
“Significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential”
Vannevar Bush, 1945
Associative trails between information
Associative trails between people
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
Information becomes knowledge through connections
What is known is a function of how it’s connected/related to other known
elements
What is known is known by its context
A play or movie
Suitability or inappropriateness: not inherent...function of context
Educators foster (direct) the formation of connections
Social processes are a form of cognitionSalomon, xiv
Distributed cognition: thinking in networks
Are our institutions designed for this?
NO
By design, today’s institutions & systems serve to handle information
of a different nature
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
Let’s talk networks
Connectivism
Knowledge is held distributed within a network
Competence/learning occurs through network creation
Technology performs “grunt cognition”
Capacity to stay current
“Knowing where/who”
Sense-making/pattern recognition
What do we mean when we say learning occurs in networks?
Neural
Conceptual
t
Information & social networks
What then are important learning activities?
Creating a network to provide information when needed
Develop skills and mindsets to create this network
Social, technological, automatic (bots)
1. Information2. Abundance=new approach3. Knowing and sense making4. Networks5. Impact
What does this mean to learning design?
What about teaching/training?
Systemic changes
Openness
How we teach
How we determine content
Look at information life cycle – institutions need to be aware of points of production
Systemic changes
Technology for finding meaningful content (right now finding happens in social networks)
How we package content
How we accredit learning
Practicality?
Early stages
But already established trends
Networked learning is the path forward...as long as current information trends continue
www.elearnspace.orgwww.connectivism.ca
www.knowingknowledge.com
Contact: gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org
