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Learning 2.0Learning 2.0The Power of Learning

in aNetworked World

John ConnellCisco Systems

www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/

Those who struggle to create an adequate theory of

learning must admit that the process is much like

stumbling in the dark.

George Siemens

http://www.connectivism.ca/

George Siemens

The developing structure of technology, neural research, institutional reorganization

(from hierarchy to network), and social impact of learning

under new ideologies, is evolving too rapidly to be

effectively detailed as “this is what it is.”

The moment this declaration is made, the environment has

shifted. We need to lay aside the desire to know, and

embrace instead the desire to continue to learn. Knowing is

no longer a destination. Knowing is a process of walking in varying degrees of alignment

with a dynamic environment.

George Siemens

The Nature of Interconnectedne

Networking is natural;

connecting is natural.

Dissolution ofTime and Distance

Self-OrganizingNetworks

HyperNetworking:active, complex,

systematic

Network Ecology

Learning Ecology

decentralized

distributed

disintermediated

disaggregated

dis-integrated

democratic

dynamic

desegregated

Effective Networks are:

SmokestackSchooling?

Information was scarce

Key sources of information were controlled by an elite

Teachers were seen as the founts of knowledge

The economy demanded mass -production of learning

The curriculum was centrally determined

Pedagogy meant ‘knowledge transfer’

The conditions

thattypified the

school...

RF Mackenzie

“The great mistake we educationists make is to suppose that schools are

about education. It is not so....they are about control...”

Woodrow Wilson

“We want one class of persons to have a liberal

education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the

privileges of liberal education and fit

themselves to perform specific difficult manual

tasks.”

“Education is an old ramshackle

windmillthat goes on

flapping its great arms

long after the miller has left.”

RF Mackenzie

A place where learning is the focus rather than teaching

A hub for educational resources and facilitation

A place for social learning (and solitary learning)

A focus for collaborative learning

An immersive environment

An open-learning environment built on negotation and mutual respect

An extended community resource

Some Principles of Network

Learning?

Some Principles of Network

Learning?

Derived from the thinking and writing ofStephen Downes and George Siemens

Learning and knowledge rest in

diversity of opinions

Learning is a process of connecting

specialized nodes or information sources

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.

The Purpose of Education in an Interconnected

“A good education system should have three purposes...”

Ivan Illich

from “Deschooling Society”

http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html

Ivan Illich

“It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives....”

Ivan Illich

“It should empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them....”

Ivan Illich

“It should furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known...”

The current search for new educational funnels must be

reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational

webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to

transform each moment of his living into one of learning,

sharing, and caring.

Ivan Illich

The current search for new educational funnels must be

reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational

webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to

transform each moment of his living into one of learning,

sharing, and caring.

affirmative transformation

extending human horizons

realizing personal and social potential

What should Education be about?

What has Education too often been about?

maintaining the status quo

affirming social station

protecting and reinforcing the prevailing economic condition

What should Technology be about?

affirmative transformation

making the world a better place to live in

extending human capacity and capability for collective benefit

What has Technology too often been about?

killing and controlling

damaging our world

rendering people (and peoples) passive

Jared Diamond

“The crux of success or failure is to know

which core values to hold on to, and which to discard or replace when times change.”

Respect for Others

Tolera

Differ

passio

nEquity

Respect for

Natural Systems

Respect for

Future Generations

Respect for Rightsof Non-Humans VALUESVALUES

Derived from Jonathan Porritt“Capitalism as if the World Matters”

Some Thoughts

on NetworkLearning

Criteria for Network

Learning...

Connectivity

Diversity

Opennness

Autonomy

Education is being displaced from its traditional confines of institutions to a generalized

formof learning that can take

place anytime and anyplace

http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdfPithamber R. Polsani

...a form of education whose site of production,

circulation and consumption is the network

...education should be redefined as

preparedness for change...

...education should be redefined as

preparedness for change...

...the knowledge economy or the information society is not a stable

structure with definitive functions, but a flexible condition where diverse

programs can be developed using fragments of knowledge from different

fields.

...the knowledge economy or the information society is not a stable

structure with definitive functions, but a flexible condition where diverse

programs can be developed using fragments of knowledge from different

fields.

Knowledge is created...

Knowledge is grown...

Knowledge is personal...

Knowledge is socially mediated...

Knowledge is making

connections....

Knowledge is recognizing

patterns...

Knowledge is perception...

Pedagogyfor

NetworkLearning?

Paulo Freire on Pedagogy....

Paulo Freire

...learners are active participants andco-constructorsof knowledge...

Paulo Freire

...learning should be meaningful &

purposeful to the learners...

Paulo Freire

...learning should have a critical

focus...

Educators play the same sort of role in society as journalists. They

are aggregators, assimilators, analysts and advisors. They are

middle links in an ecosystem

Stephen Downes

http://www.downes.ca/

Stephen Downes

Knowledge is not located in any

given place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted'

per se) but rather consists of the network of connections

formed from experience and interactions with a knowing

community...

http://www.downes.ca/

Investigative learning

Problem-based learning

Community-based learning

Experiential learning

Self-directed learning

Dialogical Network-based learning

etc.........

Some Trendsfor the Future?

New Horizon Reports 2007 & 2008Educause / New Media Consortium

User-Created ContentUser-Created Content

Social NetworkingSocial Networking

MobilityMobility

Metaverse / Extended Reality

Multiplayer Online Gaming

The Pragmatic WebThe Pragmatic Web

Social Operating SystemsSocial Operating Systems

Grassroots VideoGrassroots Video

Data MashupsData Mashups

Individual Production

Power of the Crowd

Data on an Epic Scale

Complex Participation

Network Effects

Openness

Podcasts

Mashups

Tagging / Folksonomy

The Web is the Platform

Social Networking

Web 2.0: A Shifting Context for Education

Paul Anderson (JISC) - “What is Web 2.0:Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education”

Cult of the Amateur....?Cult of the Amateur....?

Andrew Keen

”...instead of creating masterpieces, these millions and millions of exuberant monkeys [Internet users]–many with no more talent in the creative arts than our primate cousins–are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.”

Andrew Keen

“Wisdom of the crowd are internet activists who are stealing our culture from us” .

Cult of the Amateur....?Cult of the Amateur....?

David Weinberger

Everything is Miscellaneous?Everything is

Miscellaneous?“I was an academic a long time ago, but I haven't forgotten how isolated I felt in the philosophical community before the Web. Ideas were scarce back then because space, time and

the limitations of paper made it hard to hear what others were

saying and well nigh impossible to talk with them about it....”

David Weinberger

Miscellaneous?“...today I am in contact with people

who come up with ideas I'd never have encountered, who are sources of wide expertise, who squirrel away in public on tiny topics, who spew a long tail of speculations with occasional insights that are worth the wait, who take me

apart because my logic is wrong or my biases are showing, and who support

my good ideas...”

David Weinberger

Miscellaneous?

“Without any doubt, I am in the richest, most stimulating, most fruitful

swirl of thought, knowledge, ideas and feeling ever in my life...far more

productive than when I was consigned to talking only with professionals and

credentialed experts.”

“The Owl of Minerva spreads

its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

Philosophy...always comes on the scene too

late..… When philosophy paints its

gray in gray, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s gray in

gray it cannot be rejuvenated but only

understood.”

GWF Hegel

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Thank You

John Connell

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