argument against words/language producing long predictive chains of thought.
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.
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.