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44 Connectivism

‘[M]eaning, both socially and neurally, have the same origin: meaning is an emergent phenomenon, arising from the connections between underlying entities.’ and ‘impulses in the network ebb and flow’ (Downes in Foundations)

Connectivism

Posted on February 13, 2022 by x28

Finally, there is a comprehensive, more easily citable, work on Connectivism available
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#ethics21 Week 8

Posted on December 8, 2021 by x28

I had my difficulties to get my head around this week’s topic.
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Foundations

Posted on November 11, 2019 by x28

I tried to understand Stephen Downes’s “Philosophical Foundations of Connectivism“. Here is what I excerpted and remixed: below, or better on an interactive map, or in the  transient wiki. Sensations from anywhere “We don’t just sense what we see, feel, … Continue reading →

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Week 1 of new cMOOC

Posted on January 30, 2017 by x28

Why do learners need interactivity? Because watching their peers recognizing helps their own recognizing more than consuming canned resources.
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Visualizing my understanding of connectivism

Posted on May 1, 2014 by x28

I have often tried to explain my biggest problem with connectivism. Maybe a picture works better. There is the neuronal layer, and then there is the society layer. But how are these related? The metaphor of conceptual connections could be closing the gap.
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Connectivism must abandon its ideas?

Posted on October 3, 2013 by x28

Two Catalan authors see “Three problems with the connectivist conception of learning” and challenge its core ideas. I am not convinced. They seem to have a very different view of patterns than I have (binomial rather than gradually emerging), and of connections (all of strength 1 or 0).
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Connectivist Think Tool

Posted on May 17, 2013 by x28

Here is the link to my favorite think tool. Later more.

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#CCK11 What Makes Connectivism Unique?

Posted on February 11, 2011 by x28

IMHO, the unique “selling point” of Connectivism is its powerful metaphor that applies to the three layers neuronal, conceptual, and social/ external.
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#PLENK2010: Proliferation of Learning Theories

Posted on October 8, 2010 by x28

My “theory”: Many educators won’t admit to themselves that their own cognitive style is not the only best one that leads to the most effective learning. So naturally, there are problems to reconcile some students’ real learning processes with the predicted progress. And therefore, ever new theories are needed.
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CCK08 Final presentation

Posted on November 24, 2008 by x28

As my final presentation, I uploaded a 2 minute Flash file (no audio, 4.5 MB). It answers the question “How has this course influenced my view of the process of learning” and is a reduced, visually enhanced version of my yesterday’s posting about the relationship between conceptual and social/ external connections.
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