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Why group norms kill creativity - elearnspace
Collaboration, cooperation, communities of practice, collective intelligence, and similar concepts have become very popular concepts in society, business, and education. Any system of organization must pay utmost homage to the primacy of the individual. Wisdom of the crowds is often misinterpreted as suggesting that people are intelligent when they think together. It’s more accurate to say that people are intelligent when they think alone and that this intelligence is amplified when they connect. It’s a subtle but vital distinction. A homogeneous group is often not very effective at creativity. Individual diversity, connected, produces substantial advances. A group can refine, extend, augment, and even perfect certain concepts and ideas. But, as this paper states - Why group norms kill creativity:
Unfortunately groups only rarely foment great ideas because people in them are powerfully shaped by group norms: the unwritten rules which describe how individuals in a group ‘are’ and how they ‘ought’ to behave. Norms influence what people believe is right and wrong just as surely as real laws, but with none of the permanence or transparency of written regulations…the unwritten rules of the group, therefore, determined what its members considered creative. In effect groups had redefined creativity as conformity.
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences (Driscoll, 2000, p. 376).
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Connectivism as Learning Theory « The Connective
“Instead of hierarchy, we create networks. Instead of static spaces of information exchange, we foster ecologies.”
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“Instead of hierarchy, we create networks. Instead of static spaces of information exchange, we foster ecologies.”
Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism
Abstract. Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed from densely-knit “Little Boxes” (densely-knit, linking people door-to-door) to “Glocalized” networks (sparsely-
knit but with clusters, linking households both locally and globally) to “Networked Individualism” (sparsely-knit, linking individuals with little regard to space). The transformation affects design considerations for computer systems that would support digital cities.
Connectivism Blog
connectivism also shares in bringing to the forefront ideas of philosophers and theorists from previous generations. Much of what is unique is the particular combination and integration of ideas that reflect the broader societal and information-based trends.
Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Learning
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning.
MiLK - The Mobile Learning Kit
MiLK is a new way for you to connect students, curriculum and everyday environments using simple web and mobile technologies.
The community is the curriculum
Dave Cormier's paper entitled “Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum
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“In the rhizomatic model of learning, curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process. This community acts as the curriculum, spontaneously shaping, constructing, and reconstructing itself and the subject of its learning..”
Beware the Prophets
While "guru" has an honorable tradition within Hindu spiritual circles, the term seems less positive when it comes to management gurus. As Eric Hoffer is quoted as saying, "Guru is a word for someone who cannot spell charlatan."
Using assessments to evaluate action, not knowledge
We should evaluate actions, rather than 'knowledge' (where 'knowledge' here means 'remembered instances of data'). We should evaluate actions is that we are able to get at more finely-grained sub-symbolic mental development, and not just memorized facts.
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Now, in theory, doing a 360 assessment (asking the people around the student, both before the formal learning program and, oh, six months after, for evaluations of behavior) is a pretty good technique. But 360's are also intrusive.
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The bad news is that, well, who cares if someone can intellectually differentiate between different leadership styles? That is so old school. Further, simpler programs may get the same result, even if the knowledge is never used, (and the knowledge gleaned from old school programs also decays much more quickly after the program ends).
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The frontier of education: Web 3D
With "Web 2.0" barely taking a "bit" part in most of today's classrooms, the next evolution of the web, I predict, is not Web 3.0. I think it will be Web 3D.
Learn Online: Die LMS die! You too PLE!
The Internet is my PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, wikispaces, ourmedia, creative commons, and what ever comes next in this new Internet age, I have a strong online ID and very extensive & PLE
Knowing Knowledge: Home
Our schools, universities, corporations, and non-profit organizations, need to adapt. We need to change the spaces and structures of our society to align with the new context and characteristics of knowledge.
Personal Learning Environments - JITT
Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.
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“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists” — Eric Hoffer
Networks, Ecologies, and Curatorial Teaching
The connection becomes tyrannical. But connection forming is natural. It doesn't need coercion. We do it with language, images, video. We create, express, connect. And software is now available that aids this innate activity with unprecedented fervor.
Savage Minds: a brief philosophy of “anti-teaching”
Before I go much further in my description of “anti-teaching” I might say that I do not recommend it for everybody, nor do I think anti-teaching is necessarily superior to teaching.
Apple's Outsize Presence on Web 2.0 [Apple 2.0]
A Forrester Research report that found Mac users were twice as likely as Dell (DELL) users to be active participants (so-called "creators") on the Web (see here).
Learning Futures
With the advent of 'Web 2.0' and the new activities that it enables, the idea of education as we know it is being challenged. Instant messaging, blogging, podcasting, Skype, wikis, MySpace and the like are all part of a new 'participation' web that allows
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