Last week I was permanently thinking about the conectivism and after the possibility taking part at the UStream conference part of the CCK08 it didn’t stop. Got an idea which could be make this for me more understandable. To resume my points I got from the connectivism apporach: Knowledge exists. Knowledge is existing in technology. Knowledge is existing in networked form – means in forms of nodes and edges connecting the nodes.
Sounds very abstract, symbolic and clear – but this evening there is an clear open question which didn’t leave me. Where is the learner, if you would take this in educational approaches?
It may be give an simple view – the learner are represented by the nodes. But this declares a static model of connected knowledge.
To bring in more dynamic: If it would take the point out in the net is the node a spoor of knowledge (as delivered asset of former knowledge) – as an expression – just as a concentrate or a substract of this, what somebody got learned – beside there was the point that content and context have to join together – but often enough only parts are „delivered“ or avaiable in knots. Assuming this and having this in mind a learner is maybe enabled to follow those nodes through edges to deconcentrate those nodes – finally delivering and embedding new contexts and content ->creating theyr own nodes. Those thoughts are offering: There is maybe a need to develop the learners perspective in a maybe more dynamic model than static-connectivism. So just the simple question of the quality of the node could be valued by the quality in the moment of delivering by the person who delivers and by the quality of the moment of assuming and interpretation of those models. Anyhow the knowledge itself fixed in an asset as just a spoor offers another dynamic perspective. Those who fixed the spoor can, should and will adopt it if they got acces to new nodes. What would happen then? Will they create new nodes or change the others? Will all people had access to the node get the information of changed content or context?
My 2 cents for today!
Bis denne
Andreas
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