Photo from CARF
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/
John Connell
Learning 2.0
The Power of Learning
in a
Networked World
John Connell
Cisco Systems
John Connell
www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/
John Connell
http://www.connectivism.ca/
Those who struggle to create an
adequate theory of learning must
admit that the process is much
like stumbling in the dark.
George Siemens
John Connell
http://www.connectivism.ca/
The developing structure of
technology, neural research,
institutional reorganization (from
hierarchy to network), and social
impact of learning under new
ideologies, is evolving too rapidly to
be effectively detailed as “this is
what it is.”
George Siemens
John Connell
http://www.connectivism.ca/
The moment this declaration is
made, the environment has shifted.
We need to lay aside the desire to
know, and embrace instead the
desire to continue to learn. Knowing
is no longer a destination. Knowing
is a process of walking in varying
degrees of alignment with a
dynamic environment.
George Siemens
John Connell
The Nature of
Interconnectedness
John Connell
John Connell
Networking is
natural;
connecting is
natural.
John Connell
Dissolution of
Time and
Distance
John Connell
Self-Organizing
Networks
John Connell
HyperNetworking:
active, complex, systematic
John Connell
Network Ecology
Learning Ecology
John Connell
Effective Networks are:
decentralized
distributed
disintermediated
disaggregated
dis-integrated
democratic
dynamic
desegregated
John Connell
Smokestack
Schooling?
John Connell
The
conditions
that
typified the
school...
Information was scarce
Key sources of information
were controlled by an elite
Teachers were seen as the
founts of knowledge
The economy demanded
mass -production of learning
The curriculum was centrally
determined
Pedagogy meant ‘knowledge
transfer’
John Connell
“The great mistake we educationists make is
to suppose that schools are about education.
It is not so....they are about control...”
RF Mackenzie
John Connell
John Connell
John Connell
“We want one class of
persons to have a liberal
education. We want another
class of persons, a very much
larger class of necessity, to
forego the privileges of liberal
education and fit themselves
to perform specific difficult
manual tasks.”
Woodrow Wilson
John Connell
“Education is an old
ramshackle windmill
that goes on flapping
its great arms
long after the miller
has left.”
RF Mackenzie
John Connell
A place where learning is the focus rather than
teaching
A hub for educational resources and facilitation
A place for social learning (and solitary learning)
A focus for collaborative learning
An immersive environment
An open-learning environment built on
negotation and mutual respect
An extended community resource
John Connell
Derived from the thinking and writing of
Stephen Downes and George Siemens
Some Principles of
Network Learning?
John Connell
Learning and
knowledge rest in
diversity of opinions
John Connell
Learning is a process of
connecting specialized
nodes or information
sources
John Connell
Capacity to know
more is more critical
than what is currently
known
John Connell
Nurturing and
maintaining connections
is needed to facilitate
continual learning
John Connell
Ability to see
connections between
fields, ideas, and
concepts is a core skill.
John Connell
The Purpose of
Education in an
Interconnected
World
John Connell
from
“Deschooling
Society”
http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html
“A good education
system should have
three purposes...”
Ivan Illich
John Connell
“It should provide all
who want to learn with
access to available
resources at any time in
their lives....”
Ivan Illich
John Connell
“It should empower
all who want to
share what they
know to find those
who want to learn it
from them....”
Ivan Illich
John Connell
“It should furnish all
who want to present
an issue to the public
with the opportunity to
make their challenge
known...”
Ivan Illich
John Connell
The current search for new
educational funnels must be reversed
into the search for their institutional
inverse: educational webs which
heighten the opportunity for each one
to transform each moment of his
living into one of learning, sharing,
and caring.
Ivan Illich
John Connell
What should Education be
about?
affirmative transformation
extending human horizons
realizing personal and social potential
John Connell
What has Education too often
been about?
maintaining the status quo
affirming social station
protecting and reinforcing the prevailing
economic condition
John Connell
What should Technology be
about?
affirmative transformation
making the world a better place to live in
extending human capacity and capability
for collective benefit
John Connell
What has Technology too
often been about?
killing and controlling
damaging our world
rendering people (and peoples) passive
John Connell
“The crux of success or
failure is to know which
core values to hold on to,
and which to discard or
replace when times
change.”
Jared Diamond
John Connell
Compassion
Respect for Rights
VALUES Respect for Others
of Non-Humans
Equity
Derived from Jonathan Porritt
“Capitalism as if the World Matters”
2005
John Connell
Some
Thoughts on
Network
Learning
John Connell
Criteria for
Network
Learning...
John Connell
Connectivity
Diversity
Opennness
Autonomy
John Connell
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdf
Pithamber R. Polsani
Education is being displaced from
its traditional confines of
institutions to a generalized form
of learning that can take place
anytime and anyplace
John Connell
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdf
Pithamber R. Polsani
...a form of education whose
site of production, circulation
and consumption is the network
John Connell
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdf
Pithamber R. Polsani
...education should be
redefined as preparedness
for change...
John Connell
http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdf
Pithamber R. Polsani
...the knowledge economy or the information
society is not a stable structure with definitive
functions, but a flexible condition where diverse
programs can be developed using fragments of
knowledge from different fields.
John Connell
Knowledge is created...
Knowledge is grown...
Knowledge is personal...
Knowledge is socially mediated...
Knowledge is making connections....
Knowledge is recognizing patterns...
Knowledge is perception...
John Connell
Pedagogy
for
Network
Learning?
John Connell
Paulo Freire on
Pedagogy....
Paulo Freire
John Connell
...learners are active
participants and
co-constructors
of knowledge...
Paulo Freire
John Connell
...learning should be
meaningful &
purposeful to the
learners...
Paulo Freire
John Connell
...learning should have a
critical focus...
Paulo Freire
John Connell
http://www.downes.ca/
Educators play the same sort of role in
society as journalists. They are
aggregators, assimilators, analysts and
advisors. They are middle links in an
ecosystem
Stephen Downes
John Connell
http://www.downes.ca/
Knowledge is not located in any
given place (and therefore not
'transferred' or 'transacted' per se)
but rather consists of the network
of connections formed from
experience and interactions with a
knowing community...
Stephen Downes
John Connell
Investigative learning
Problem-based learning
Community-based learning
Experiential learning
Self-directed learning
Dialogical Network-based learning
etc.........
John Connell
Some Trends
for the Future?
New Horizon Reports 2007 & 2008
Educause / New Media Consortium
John Connell
User-Created Content
John Connell
Social Networking
John Connell
Mobility
John Connell
Metaverse / Extended Reality
John Connell
Multiplayer Online Gaming
John Connell
The Pragmatic Web
John Connell
Social Operating Systems
John Connell
Grassroots Video
John Connell
Data Mashups
John Connell
Web 2.0: A Shifting Context
for Education
Blogs
Individual Production
Wikis
Power of the Crowd
Podcasts
Data on an Epic Scale
Social Networking
The Web is the Platform
Mashups
Complex Participation
Tagging / Folksonomy
Network Effects
RSS
Openness
Paul Anderson (JISC) - “What is Web 2.0:
Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education”
John Connell
Cult of the Amateur....?
”...instead
of
creating
masterpieces,
these
millions
and millions
of exuberant
monkeys
[Internet
users]–many
with
no
more
talent
in
the
creative
arts
than
our
primate
cousins–are
creating
an
endless
digital
forest
of
mediocrity.”
Andrew Keen
John Connell
Cult of the Amateur....?
“Wisdom
of the crowd
are
internet
activists
who
are
stealing our culture from us” .
Andrew Keen
John Connell
Everything is Miscellaneous?
“I was an academic a long time ago, but I
haven't forgotten how isolated I felt in the
philosophical community before the Web.
Ideas were scarce back then because
space, time and the limitations of paper
made it hard to hear what others were
saying and well nigh impossible to talk
with them about it....”
David Weinberger
John Connell
Everything is Miscellaneous?
“...today I am in contact with people who
come up with ideas I'd never have
encountered, who are sources of wide
expertise, who squirrel away in public on
tiny topics, who spew a long tail of
speculations with occasional insights that
are worth the wait, who take me apart
because my logic is wrong or my biases are
showing, and who support my good ideas...”
David Weinberger
John Connell
Everything is Miscellaneous?
“Without any doubt, I am in the richest,
most stimulating, most fruitful swirl of
thought, knowledge, ideas and feeling ever
in my life...far more productive than when I
was consigned to talking only with
professionals and credentialed experts.”
David Weinberger
John Connell
“The Owl of
Minerva spreads
its wings only with
the falling of the
dusk.”
John Connell
Philosophy...always comes
on the scene too late..…
When philosophy paints its
gray in gray, then has a
shape of life grown old. By
philosophy’s gray in gray it
cannot be rejuvenated but
only understood.”
GWF Hegel
John Connell
John Connell
Learning 2.0
The Power of Learning
in a
Networked World
www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog
redpathjohn@mac.com
johncon@cisco.com
John Connell
Thank You
John Connell