Saturday, July 20, 2019

Connectivism in Teaching


Connectivism views learning as “a process in which the nodes of the complex network are interconnected.” Where knowledge isn’t stored in just a person anymore it is found in the connections between different nodes (ex: people or the internet).

The main principles are


  •  Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions;
  •  Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources;
  •  Learning may reside in non-human appliances;
  •  Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known;
  •  Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning;
  •  Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
  •  Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
  •  Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
But how as teachers do we apply this to our classrooms. Some ideas are:



It all comes down to relationships. Learning through the relationships of different people, friends, family, teachers, scholars , experts. Technology can foster these relationships, viewing peer reviewed articles online, connecting to experts and friends. Humans are social by nature, we can apply this social network to how we learn, through a network of of nodes of information.





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