Comments on: Connectivism http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism/ - thoughts on learning in a digitally changing world - Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:09:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Karyn Romeis http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Karyn Romeis Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:45:10 +0000 http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism-2/#comment-8 Connectivism does differ from constructivism in that constructivism refers to the construction of knowledge within one's own head. Social constructivism looks at how we construct knowledge as a society and this is a closer match to connectivism. Except that connectivism is about pattern recognition, which has more in common with gestalt than social constructivism. Connectivism looks at how various nodes within a network connect. It's the issue of how no one person has all the knowledge and skills to build and fly a jumbo jet, but the aggregation of the skills of the collective takes us from planning through construction to staffing, loading and flying. What has yet to be identified is whether we can therefore say that the network, as an entity, is sentient, is learning, has knowledge. This was a question I raised during one of Stephen Downes's presentations a couple of years ago and he agreed that this is currently an are of uncertainty. Connectivism does differ from constructivism in that constructivism refers to the construction of knowledge within one’s own head. Social constructivism looks at how we construct knowledge as a society and this is a closer match to connectivism. Except that connectivism is about pattern recognition, which has more in common with gestalt than social constructivism.

Connectivism looks at how various nodes within a network connect. It’s the issue of how no one person has all the knowledge and skills to build and fly a jumbo jet, but the aggregation of the skills of the collective takes us from planning through construction to staffing, loading and flying.

What has yet to be identified is whether we can therefore say that the network, as an entity, is sentient, is learning, has knowledge. This was a question I raised during one of Stephen Downes’s presentations a couple of years ago and he agreed that this is currently an are of uncertainty.

]]> By: healydavid http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism/comment-page-1/#comment-7 healydavid Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:02:30 +0000 http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism-2/#comment-7 Right on, Vu. We've all got to at least see some passing humor, if not downright alarm, in he notion of "obsolete information" in the face of a) the sacred texts and learnings you reference above and b) ISB's drive for "eduring understandings". Perhaps the understanding is that what you know will be obsolete in a few minutes, including your knowledge of that. You should patent "bindblogging". I owe you 1baht for saying it just now :-) Right on, Vu. We’ve all got to at least see some passing humor, if not downright alarm, in he notion of “obsolete information” in the face of a) the sacred texts and learnings you reference above and b) ISB’s drive for “eduring understandings”. Perhaps the understanding is that what you know will be obsolete in a few minutes, including your knowledge of that.

You should patent “bindblogging”. I owe you 1baht for saying it just now :-)

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jeff Utecht Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:58:38 +0000 http://lamonlearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/connectivism-2/#comment-4 Great questions. I don't think connectivism is that much different then constructivism. I see it as an enhancement to it. Connectivism (in my eyes) looks to explain how we connect information in a digital landscape and how those connections are similar to ones we make in real life and through what we know in constructivism. I don't think it's one or the other but rather both. Great questions. I don’t think connectivism is that much different then constructivism. I see it as an enhancement to it. Connectivism (in my eyes) looks to explain how we connect information in a digital landscape and how those connections are similar to ones we make in real life and through what we know in constructivism. I don’t think it’s one or the other but rather both.

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