Connectivism - Personal Learning Networks for 21st Century Teachers

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Source: Brandy Agerbeck

LEFT - COMPETITOR RIGHT - NETWORKER

Logical Analytical Quatitative Rational Verbal

Innovative Conceptual Intuitive Non-verbal Imaginative

21st century skills are more right-braindependent. And right-brain predominanceiterates more easily back and forth betweenleft and right hemispheres.

•Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

•Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

•Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

•Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

•Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

•Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

The National Council of Teachers of English, Feb, 2008

Source: Peggy Sheehy: Ramapo Schools

George Siemens, 2008

Connective knowledge is knowledge that could be described as distributed, because it is spread across more than one entity. A property of one entity must lead to or become a property of another entity in order for them to be considered connected; the knowledge that results from such connections is connective knowledge.

Learning is a network forming process Capacity to know more is more critical than

what is known Learning rests in aggregating diverse, often

opposing, views Content is often the by-product of the

learning process – not the starting point Connections, not content, are the beginning

point of the learning process

Learning can reside in non-human appliances Knowledge can rest within our networks not

only internally in ourselves Ability to see connections (pattern recognition)

between ideas and concepts critical to learning Currency (up to date knowledge) is the intent

of properly created learning networks Decision making is in itself a learning process

George Siemens, www.connectivism.ca

Ross Mayfield, Oct. 2008

The periphery of this network contains three groups of nodes that are usually tied to the core through looser ties:

1) Those new to the community and working to get to the core

2) Bridges to diverse communities elsewhere

3) Unique resources that operate outside of the community, and may span many communities.

“…knowledge embedded in societies or large groups of people”

Horizon Report 2008

George Siemens, 2008

Alec Couros

Alec Couros

Wordle.net

Source: Sue Waters, 2008 Blog

(Note: Current survey under way includes virtual worlds)

Blogs (edublogs.org, wordpress.com) Microblogging (twitter.com, plurk.com) Wikis (wikispaces.com, pbwiki.com) Social Networks (META: metamexico.ning.com) Social Bookmarking (del.cio.us, diigo.com) Digital Photo Sharing (Flickr.com, slideshare.com) Video Conferences – Chat (ie. Skype.com) RSS Feed Aggregates (ie. Reader.google.com) Podcasting and Vodcasting (voicethread.com) Virtual Worlds (secondlife.com, lively.com)

Web 2.0 generally refers to an interactive read/write Web rather than simply a passive read-only Web.

See more resources at META.

SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/metamexico

http://metamexico.ning.com

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500841759&ref=profile

http://franksblog.edublogs.org

http://twitter.com/MetaWeb20

http://www.plurk.com/user/metaweb

http://delicious.com/network/metaweb20

http://www.diigo.com/dashboard/metaweb

http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Rubrics

http://flickr.com/photos/metaweb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA

http://gmail.com

http://www.google.com/reader/view

David Truss, Video Blip.tv 2008

Alec Corous, Voicethread, 2008

Charles Kettering – "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

“If you think that change is painful, finding out that you are irrelevant is even more painful.”

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“Hell is the place where nothing connects.” - T. S. Eliot

“Technology won’t replace teachers, but teachers that use technology in their classrooms will replace those that don’t”-Cathy Higham, Cambridge University Press, Morelia - 2007

Get connected yourself (before you facilitate other educators and students getting connected)

Vicki Davis, aka “The Cool Cat Teacher”

THANK YOU!

META: Mexico English Teachers’ Alliance, Web 2.0

Join the META Group:“Connectivism & PLNs” for more resources, includinga copy of this slide show.