Half an Hour: Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge

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Stephen 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.

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.
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
Summary:

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

This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Sep 2008, by Christy Tucker.

07 Dec 08

Benjamin Stewart
types of knowledge
- Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge
- Summary: Three types of knowledge
  - of the senses (empirical)
  - of quantity (rationalist)
  - of connections (connective)
29 Sep 08

Rob Miller
- The things we see, the things we feel, the things we hear: these are the qualities of the object.
- 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.
  - our ability to perceive, to sense the world, and our ability to calculate, to think about the world
  - orm the foundation for language, the foundation for logic, and the foundation for all of the sciences we have had up to today
  - Empiricism, the philosophy that all knowledge is derived from the senses
  - Rationalism, the philosophy that all knowledge is derived from calculation and realism
26 Sep 08

Kimberly McCollum
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- Summary: Connective knowledge is both:
  - knowledge OF networks in the world
  - knowledge obtained BY networks
- the actual interactions that take place, the actual interactions that happen between this person and other people, the actual perceptions that reshape the person's neural network.
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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
21 Sep 08

Steve Sorden
cck08 connectivism
19 Sep 08

Thieme Hennis
blogpost about three types of knowledge: qualitative, quantitative, and connective. Also noce introduction to (Western) philosophy.

philosophy connectivism blogpost interesting knowledge
- 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
17 Sep 08

mrs durff
- 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.
- Summary: Three types of knowledge
  - of the senses (empirical)
  - of quantity (rationalist)
  - of connections (connective)
maike online
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16 Sep 08

Irmeli Aro
CCK08
L@jost EU project
connectivism collaboration Education pedagogy l@jost
15 Sep 08

Joost Robben
cck08
- two types of knowledge
- 'qualitative' knowledge.
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- - 'quantitative' knowledge.
  - Empiricism and rationalism:
14 Sep 08

Christy Tucker
Stephen 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.

connectivism cck08 networks
- 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.
- 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
- 1 more annotations...
- - Summary:
    
    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