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Roots of Connectivism

Roots of Connectivism. George Siemens March 24, 2011 Bergen, Norway. Behaviourism. Concept: Learning is a change in behaviour …mind is a black box Figures: Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, Skinner. B.F. Skinner. Cognitivism.

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Roots of Connectivism

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  1. Roots of Connectivism George Siemens March 24, 2011 Bergen, Norway

  2. Behaviourism Concept: Learning is a change in behaviour…mind is a black box Figures: Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, Skinner B.F. Skinner

  3. Cognitivism Concept: information processing, metacognition, thought process, knowledge is organized Figures: Bruner, Ausubel, Gagne, Piaget, Vygotsky

  4. Constructivism Multiple camps: cognition, interaction, context Broad influence: Dewey, Von Glasersfeld, Kuhn “Knowledge constructed by learners as they attempt to make sense of their experiences” (Driscoll)

  5. Social Constructivism Vygotsky (later Leontiev, Engestrom: Activity Theory) • Language • Social and cultural context

  6. Constructionism Concept: people learn through making things – “creative experimentation” Learning vs. Teaching “find ways in which the technology enables children to use knowledge” Seymour Papert

  7. Connectionism Concept: Learning - neural networks, not symbol processing Figures: • Early: Thorndike (behaviourist) • More recently modular models of learning (Minsky), Bechtel, Abrahamsen, Pinker, Churchland, Hebb

  8. Situated Learning Concept: “learning as it normally occurs is a function of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs” Figures: Lave, Wenger

  9. Late February, 2003

  10. Global, networked research, sensemaking, & knowledge growth

  11. April 16, 2003

  12. Distributed, social, networked knowledge growth (Connectivism)

  13. Martin Prosperity Institute, 2009

  14. Sensemaking andwayfindingin abundance and complexity

  15. Connectivism: • Knowledge is networked and distributed • The experience of learning is one of forming new neural, conceptual and external networks • Occurs in complex, chaotic, shifting spaces • Increasingly aided by technology

  16. Connectionism • Theory of mind • Neuroscience • Artificial intelligence • Psychology • Concept development • Concept Inventory • Physics & Science education • Error in thought/cognition • Sociology • Social learning theory • Communities • Social cognition • Embodied cognition • Distributed cognition

  17. Political blogosphere, 2004 BlueBrain 3D File Manager Hierarchy Edge Bundles • http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

  18. Determining understanding Depth and diversity of connections determines understanding Frequency of exposure Integration with existing ideas/concepts Strong and Weak Ties

  19. http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.htmlhttp://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html

  20. Theory development: Metatheory (orienting strategies) Unit theory (empirically testable) Theoretical research program (context of interrelatedness between theories) Wagner & Berger, 1985

  21. It matters because it’s explicit

  22. All the world is data. And so are we. And all of our actions. http://www.hoganphoto.com/batsto_grist_mill.htm

  23. https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar (June 20-24, 2011) www.elearnspace.org/blog Twitter/Facebook/Quora: gsiemens

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