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Network Learning
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PresentersPaula Williams, WorkForce Development
Stephan Ridgway, WorkForce Development
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TopicsSocial software background (read write web)/ architecture of participation/ paticipatory web
User generated content/ social networking (commoncraft flv)/ rss/mashups feeds (share, mix & feed
Connectivism,- a learning theory for the digital age/ pedagogies / role of the educator in the networked world / boundaries of teacher/learner classroom/work/life blurred
Getting Started @ Sydney Institute: A practical guide to network learning
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Read Write Web/ social software background (The read write
web) the architecture of participation, the participatory web
/ tools include blogs, wikis, social networking, podcasts, online video, and virtual worlds.
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Social Networking
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Share, Mix and FeedRSS and Web 2.0 Tools
“The new era is also creating a realm of endless mix and match: Anyone with a browser can access vast stores of information, mash it up, and serve it in new ways, to a few people or a few hundred million.”
– Erick Schonfeld, Om Malik, and Michael V. Copeland, The Next Net: 25 startups that are reinventing the web
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What is RSS/ RSS is the connecting fabric of Web 2.0 services,
providing the conduit for information flows between networked learning spaces.
/ Content syndication or the re-use of information from others on the network, often described as mashups
/ The ability to produce information rather than consume is what sets Web 2.0 services apart from the preceding phase of the web which comprises of static web pages linked by url’s.
/ RSS is intrinsically collaborative!
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Tagging – collaborative folksonomy
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Pedagogies in networked world Behaviourism
which asserts that learning is a “black box” activity, in that we do not know what occurs inside the learner, focuses its efforts on managing external, observable behaviors, and finds much of its existence in objectivism.
Cognitivism
which spans a continuum from learning as information processing (a computer model) at one end, to learning as reasoning and thinking on the other, finds much of its identityin pragmatism.
Constructivism
Constructivism is a philosophical position that views knowledge as the outcome of experience mediated by one's own prior knowledge and the experience of others.
Connectivism
posits that knowledge is distributed across networks and the act of learning is largely one of forming a diverse network of connections and recognizing attendant patterns
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Property Behaviourism Cognitivism Constructivism Connectivism
How learningoccurs
Black box—observablebehaviour mainfocus
Structured,computational
Social, meaningcreated by eachlearner(personal)
Distributedwithin anetwork, social,technologicallyenhanced,recognizing andinterpretingpatterns
Influencingfactors
Nature ofreward,punishment,stimuli
Existing schema,previousexperiences
Engagement,participation,social, cultural
Diversity ofnetwork,strength of ties
Role of memory Memory is thehardwiring ofrepeatedexperiences—where rewardand punishmentare mostinfluential
Encoding,storage, retrieval
Prior knowledgeremixed tocurrent context
Adaptivepatterns,representative ofcurrent state,existing innetworks
How transferoccurs
Stimulus,response
Duplicatingknowledgeconstructs of“knower”
Socialization Connecting to(adding) nodes
Types of learningbest explained
Task‐basedlearning
Reasoning, clearobjectives,problem solving
Social, vague(“ill defined”)
Complexlearning, rapidchanging core,diverseknowledgesources
Source - Learning and Knowing in Networks: Changing roles for Educators and Designers - George Siemens, 2008
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The role of the educator in a networked world / educator as network administrator - Clarence
Fisher
/ educator as concierge - Curtis Bonk
/ educator as curator - George Siemens
/ teaching as a conversation- Marc Pesce
“The ability to offload content creation, learner interaction, teaching, and skill develop to a network that exists beyond classroom walls”
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The educator continues to play a vital role in the process...but her/his role becomes one of assisting learners in creating networks that will enable the development of needed skills and will model the attitudes and skills needed to effectively participate in information abundant environments.
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Digital Literacies
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Getting started with connectivism/networked learning/ Create a class blog/student blog roll/ Use collaborative learning activities ie wikis/ Engage in open conversations/ Use and contribute to the resource pool/ Develop learner's skills in participating in and
contributing to networks/ Reduce the centrality of one educator and shift the
role of teaching to a network of external experts/ Create a personalised learning environment
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