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11 Sep 11
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Connectivism is a theory that described this third type of knowledge.
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As we have said earler, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections.
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So, connective knowledge is knowledge OF the connections that exist in the world. It is knowledge about how such connections are created, and what impact, or effect, such a system of connections has. It is knowledge about how we see such connections, how we observe them, and how we observe their results.
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the idea of connections as a WAY of knowing.
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A network, therefore, is like a sense organ. A network is stimulated, it takes a certain shape. Stimulate a network of carbon atoms with intense heat and pressure, and the carbon atoms reorganize; they take the form of a diamond. This is what can happen in any network of connected objects. When you impact that network in some way, the connections between the objects in the network change. And this results in the storage of information.
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Summary: Connective knowledge is both:
- knowledge OF networks in the world
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One network, for example, is the human brain. The brain is composed of a collection of neurons that are connected to each other. Another network is society itself. Society is composed of humans that are connected to each other.
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complex organ for perceiving the world and storing those perceptions in the form of connections in a network of interconnected neurons.
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*knowing* networks
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The fact that you can derive information from a connection, doesn't mean in actually acquires knowledge does it?
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Also, for connectivism to 'work' on the social scale, wouldn't that mean that societies, groups or networks know things that the individuals don't?
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If you allow a network to store information, that's good enough for me - we can get to sorting out what kind of information constitutes knowledge later.
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I align learning with understanding, competence, wisdom and mastery.
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A society is an abstraction. It is very real, but an abstraction. That is, I can't literally go to one thing we call "society" and ask for its opinion or feedback. Society as one voice can't talk to me, only those who constitute what we call society can do this. However, we can aggregate feedback from many individuals and call *that* a snapshot of societal knowledge. Within that snapshot could lay knowledge (via connections) that individuals at first are not aware of...it has yet to be discovered at that level. And once they look at the aggregation, they might be able to pull knowledge from it (by discovering connections) and make it their own.
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I have argued on numerous occasions that the patterns created by a network - such as those we see in society - are a matter of perception and interpretation. They must be recognized by a perceiver. They do not have some sort of inherent existence, and the only 'objective reality' about them describes the individual elements themselves, not the patterns.
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02 Apr 11
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30 Nov 10
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07 Dec 08
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Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge
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Summary: Three types of knowledge
- of the senses (empirical)
- of quantity (rationalist)
- of connections (connective)
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02 Oct 08
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29 Sep 08
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The things we see, the things we feel, the things we hear: these are the qualities of the object.
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Quantitative knowledge is derived from the practices of counting and measuring
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These two types of knowledge account for most of what we know about things that there are out there in the world.
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our ability to perceive, to sense the world, and our ability to calculate, to think about the world
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orm the foundation for language, the foundation for logic, and the foundation for all of the sciences we have had up to today
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Rationalism, the philosophy that all knowledge is derived from calculation and realism
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Empiricism, the philosophy that all knowledge is derived from the senses
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21 Sep 08
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19 Sep 08
Thieme Hennisblogpost about three types of knowledge: qualitative, quantitative, and connective. Also noce introduction to (Western) philosophy.
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If we have a lump of coal - and *only* a lump of coal, then there are three types of things to be known about it:
- its colour and shape and other qualities
- its mass and size and other quantities
- the way its parts are connected
And as a result, we have three types of knowledge about this particular lump of coal:
- qualitative
- quantitative
- connective
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17 Sep 08
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Connectivism is a theory that described this third type of knowledge. It is a theory that tells us what this third type of knowledge is, where it is, what produces it, how we learn it, and how it can be used.
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Summary: Three types of knowledge
- of the senses (empirical)
- of quantity (rationalist)
- of connections (connective)
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16 Sep 08
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15 Sep 08
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Norma ScagnoliThese two types of knowledge account for most of what we know about things that there are out there in the world. These two types of knowledge combine the best of human capacities: our ability to perceive, to sense the world, and our ability to calculate,
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two types of knowledge
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'qualitative' knowledge.
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'quantitative' knowledge.
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Empiricism and rationalism:
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14 Sep 08
Christy TuckerStephen Downes on connective knowledge. This starts with qualitative and quantitative as two types of knowledge recognized historically, continuing with some history of philosophical positions on types of knowledge. Downes argues that connective knowledge is not either empirical or rationalist, but a third type of knowledge. He uses a metaphor of carbon in different forms: carbon atoms connected differently can be coal, graphite, or diamonds. It's the same atoms, but the connections are different.
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So, connective knowledge is knowledge OF the connections that exist in the world. It is knowledge about how such connections are created, and what impact, or effect, such a system of connections has.
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So we have two types of connective knowledge, the knowledge that we have OF networks, that we obtain by looking at networks, and knowledge that is created and stored BY networks in the world.
Summary: Connective knowledge is both:
- knowledge OF networks in the world
- knowledge obtained BY networks -
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Active participation in the network:
- as a node in the network, by participating in society
- as a whole network, by perceiving with the brain (the neiural network)
Reflective participation in the network:
- by observing society as a whole
- by reflecting on our mental states and processes
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Christopher RiceSteven Downes on the Connectivist theory of knowledge.
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ken .Part of a 2005 paper - knowledge "of" (qualities and quantities) and "by" (network as organ) - traditional split -> knowing through senses (empirical, realism) and reason (rational, idealism) - can you feel the Kantian vibes - then Vienna circle's logical
cognitive history knowledge meaning metaphor network structure teamwork thinking
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