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connectivism
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advancedenglish2 on May 18, 2009
Personal Learning Environment and Connectivism
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- mmmm mmmm
- Special thanks to Lee LeFever of Commoncraft
- for granting permission to use his brilliantly simple design.
- This, my friends, is a true story.
- A student at 21st century high school
- studying American Psychology
- as part of his Contemporary Issues class,
- but it could be any topic.
- He attends classs 3 days a week, two days online
- He doesn't have a textbook
- His teacher almost never lectures. She's a student of connectivism,
- a theory that presumes that learning occurs as part of a social network of many diverse connections and types
- This network is made possible through various tools of technology
- The tools themselves are not as important
- as the coneections made possible by them.
- This teacher empowers his students to take control of their learning
- and make new connections with others
- who will strengthen the learning process.
- Before our student embarks on his learning adventure,
- He must spend sometime building his Personal Learniing Network.
- He practices finding valid websites about the American Psiche
- He is taught how to assess and value information to ensure its credibility.
- He uses google scholar and his school libray database
- to search for scholarly, peer reviewed articles on his topic.
- When he finds a website or an article that is worth it,
- he posts it to his social bookmarking site,
- a place where people share URLs they have bookmarked on specific topics
- He finds other people who've bookmarked sites about the American Psiche
- and he shares the sites he has found.
- Next, he searches for blogs that others
- have written about the American Psiche.
- He understands that blogs often reflect opinions
- rather than cold heart facts.
- Based on what he has learned so far about the American Psiche
- he can choose to comment on these blogs
- and offer his own informed point of view for discussion.
- In order to manage these blogs, he uses a reader to subscribe to them.
- That way he can tell when a blogger posts an update.
- Once our student builds a knowledge base,
- he creates his own blog to post reflections about what he has learned.
- His classmates, and virtually anyone in the world,
- can visit his blog and comment on
- his informed opinions.
- Twenty first century student loves his MP3 player
- but there's more on that device than his favourite music.
- He subscribes to a number of audio and video podcasts
- to support his learning.
- Through Itunes U he has access to
- thousands of courses recorded by
- actual professors from Standford, Yale, Cambridge
- Open University and countless others.
- In fact, he finds a lecture from a course called "Social Psychology"
- Offered at UC Berkerley.
- He literally has access to the best professors in the world.
- While researching his topics
- he stumbles upon a documentary about the American Psiche
- A Dutch born Canadian immigrant film maker crosses
- America to interview Americans about their homeland.
- Our student emails the film maker who
- agrees to video-conference with the class
- to discuss the documentary
- By the way, our student knows a few tricks
- for finding experts.
- He also knows that it never hurts to askl
- People usually love to share their knowledge and expertise,
- specially with students.
- As a few weeks pass, our student is busy reading
- the up-to-the-minute virtual textbook he has created
- in his social marker account and RSS reader
- His learning project combinates in the creation of his choice
- Perhaps a video he posts to avideo showing site
- an American Psiche wiki from which others can learn
- or a Voicethread to which others can comment
- Regardless of the medium, he is showing his organization of this knowledge
- with the rest of the world so that next students of American Psiche
- can learn from his hard work.
- The twenty first century student network
- includes a wide range of connections
- each one a new learning opportunity.
- There is more to connected learning than what you see in this project,
- Think that it's just the beginning
- Information management will be a major challenge in the 21st century
- RSS makes it possible for anyone to subscribe to
- just about any changing content on the internet.
- New syncronous communication tools
- are emerging nearly every day.
- All of these tools make it easier for our student
- to connect with new contents and learn effectively from those he already knows.
- So, why does he even need a teacher you ask?
- good question!
- She's the one who teaches him how to build this network
- and take advantage of learning opportunities.
- She offers guidance when he gets stuck,
- She shows him how to communicate properly
- and ask respectfully help from experts
- She shows him how to differentiate between good information
- and propaganda how to vet a resource,
- how to turn a websearch into a scavanger hunt
- and get excited when he finds that pearl of content
- She helps him organize those mountains of information
- In her heart she hopes that when he leaves her class
- he¡ll maintain his learning network and use it to navigate his future.
- and creatively solve the worlds problems.
- These are the skills he will need in the 21st century
- This has been a connectivism production
- subtitles by advancedenglish2 class (http://advancedenglish2.wordpress.com)


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