Home
38 items | 24 visits
-
Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge
S. Downes
-
We begin
with the nature of a network itself. In any network, there will be
three major elements:– Entities,
that is, the things that are connected that send and receive signals– Connections,
that is, the link or channel between entities (may be represented as
physical or virtual)– Signals,
that is, the message sent between entities. Note that meaning is not
inherent in signal and must be interpreted by the receiver -
Downes
Educational Theory
A good
student learns by practice, practice and reflection.
A good
teacher teaches by demonstration and modeling.
The essence of
being a good teacher is to be the sort of person you want your
students to become.
The most important learning outcome is a
good and happy life.
-
-
Half an Hour: What Connectivism Is
-
At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
-
See, that's the difference between a cognitivist theory and a connectionist theory. The cognitivist thinks deeply by reasoning through a long sequence of steps. The non-cognitivist thinks deeply by 'seeing' more intricate and more subtle patterns. It is a matter of recognition rather than inference.
- 2 more annotations...
-
-
What Connectivism Is ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
Connectivism is, by contrast, 'connectionist'. Knowledge is, on this theory, literally the set of connections formed by actions and experience. It may consist in part of linguistic structures, but it is not essentially based in linguistic structures, and the properties and constraints of linguistic structures are not the properties and constraints of connectivism.
-
Connectivism is, by contrast, 'connectionist'. Knowledge is, on this theory, literally the set of connections formed by actions and experience. It may consist in part of linguistic structures, but it is not essentially based in linguistic structures, and the properties and constraints of linguistic structures are not the properties and constraints of connectivism.
-
-
Half an Hour: Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge
-
Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge
-
Summary: Three types of knowledge
- of the senses (empirical)
- of quantity (rationalist)
- of connections (connective)
-
List Comments
(0)
List Info
Sponsored Links
Ads by Google