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October 13, 2009
Conference Week: Personal Learning Environments/Networks
This is a conference week. We're pleased to have a good mix of presenters...starting today. All sessions will be held in this elluminate room.
Highlighted Resources
PLE Workshop 2006
A large number of personal learning environment (PLE) position papers, posted on the web, indexed using del.icio.us.
Scott Wilson,
del.icio.us,
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PLE Classification and Market Segmentation
Useful summary of two articles, one (Mark van Harmelen's Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06) paper titled Personal Learning Environments) categorizing types of PLEs and the other (Ray Sim's my Framework for PLE in Corporations) outlining user functions for PLEs. It's interesting to note in passing how quickly the concept of the PLE has been industrialized
Ray Sims,
Sims Learning Connections,
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Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology
An extensive listing of resources and research related to teaching and learning (technology is somewhat limited as a focus point). The author(s) have put together a helpful listing of established and emergent learning theories. Worth a quick skim...
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Pedagogy of Fun
This link has received significant attention. I like the classification Ed Webb provides: instead of theory of fun, pedagogy of fun. Fun has a way of making learning effortless, enjoyable, and rather peripheral to being engaged. Sounds a bit like Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow.
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Contributions
Here's what course members from around the world had to say. Want to join the conversation? Submit your feed. Then put this at the beginning of your post: CCK09
CCK09 Networked LearningNetworked learning 1 This is my draft on Networked learning. Still thinking….
October 13, 2009
CCK09 New ways of thinking
Enjoy this. We all think differently even when presented with the same picture, same pattern, do we? I am not a psychologist, and I know nothing about it.. May be that’s why connectivism could be perceived and interpreted differently by each of us, especially when it comes to connective knowledge, it is emergence upon interaction, and these relate to complex [...]
October 13, 2009
CCK09 Neuroscience of emotions
Enjoy
October 13, 2009
CCK09 Relationship of brain to groups and networks
Here is an extract from Downes’ post, it reads “I have been thinking today about the distinction between groups and networks. Groups require unity, networks require diversity. Groups require coherence, networks require autonomy. Groups require privacy or segregation, networks require openness. Groups require focus of voice, networks require interaction. The group I am with right [...]
October 13, 2009
PLE/LMS
This week in CCK09 is the PLE conference. As preparation this afternoon I reviewed the pre-event readings including Learning or Management Systems? by George Siemens .So, now I am thinking about the reasons why I selected Moodle for a project. Next friday I am facilitating a session with teachers to introduce them to Moodle and how they can use it. At only 90 min it is just barely an October 13, 2009
Personal Learning Environments & Personal Learning Networks
CCK09 – Connectivism & Connective Knowledge e-Learning: George Siemens and Stephen Downes are facilitating a symposium on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) between 13th-16th October, 2009. Refer to URL: [http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/blogs/ples/about]. I really like this idea of the learner organising the technologies they use and their own learning! Sounds great. October 13, 2009
CCK09: The social dimension within connectivism
Miz Minh referred me to the book To think: in language, learning, and education (1), and as I was reading point #9 (on page 157), I saw a connection between what some would say as learning styles not existing to the present course on connectivism and connected knowledge, CCK09. I would rephrase Smith's (1991) denial of "thinking in words" as follows:
The connections we form produce the visual images we perceive, or allow us to hear others in our "mind's ear". So instead of looking at a "visual learner" as having a particular networked pattern in the brain, an educator, for example, would attempt to create an experience that allowed the learner to pursue the most salient cognitive, metacognitive, and social connections necessary, recognizing that each learner enters this same experience through a variety of "preferences and propensities" (Smith, 1991, 157).
Reflecting on how I achieved this notion (granted, not all that profound), I recognize a variety of connective principles at play. My own personal learning network - PLN - (Downes likes PLE) provided me with the connections necessary to reach this idea (i.e., a connection in itself). There is a social element here which brought me in contact, to a degree, with Miz Minh, Smith, Willingham, and Downes. Socially, I would say that I have more of a connection with Downes simply having participated in CCK08/09, even though I have not personally met any of these individuals. However, cognitively, the information that each of these individuals provides me takes on a different form.
Miz Minh afforded me the means for making cognitive connections between Smith, Willingham, and Downes that is distinct from the social connections previously mentioned. Thus, I can have a stronger social connection with Downes - by taking the CCK08/09 courses - but might have a stronger cognitive connection with Willingham if I agree with his ideas over the other individuals mentioned here, for example.
Inge de Waard asks the question, Do you think Connectivism...should actively take part in society?
I think society provides the basis for making cognitive and biological connections. It's not just about networking with people, it's what you do with the information you obtain from those people that makes the difference. For example, I could set up a language exchange for language learners where they talk to native speakers in their respective target languages via Skype. This alone might give the impression that this is a good social connection because they have contact with native speakers. But this is just an affordance. The potential is there for them to learn from a native speaker (through the development of cognitive connections) but it does not mean they will automatically do so. Perhaps, the language educator will need to guide the learners through the experience in order to facilitate their learning, that is the social and technological dimensions of this experience provide an opportunity for action on the part of the language learner to cultivate cognitive/biological connections based on individual "preferences and propensities" (Smith, 1991, 157).
The social and technological dimensions of connectivism provide the affordances necessary to develop the cognitive and biological connections required for continued growth.
RT @jackiegerstein A Spezify for Connectivism http://bit.ly/hEeF3 #CCK09 (thx for the idea @jenwagner )
More people sharing more resources in new ways is the history of civilisation http://bit.ly/HVOhx RT @leighblackall @durablegraphics #cck09
A Spezify for Connectivism http://bit.ly/hEeF3 #CCK09 (thx for the idea @jenwagner )
@monk51295 glad to hear you are following #CCK09 -enjoy the session! Should talk about it sometime...
Now, presentation on the topic of What is Connectivism? to EC & I 831 and CCK09, http://bit.ly/VaLNs
Now, presentation on the topic of What is Connectivism? to EC & I 831 and CCK09, http://bit.ly/VaLNs
#cck09 'scientists may have a devised useful new tool for studying neurological growth and healing in humans.' http://is.gd/3N6yU
The origin of the terms PLN and PLE #cck09 http://is.gd/3N6aT
Going offline to reflect about the quality control thread http://bit.ly/LTjiy Love that #CCK09 make me reconsider my standard views- thanks!
@luzpearson Perhaps writing about research (blogging, forums, summarizing, analyzing) is the practice? Not sure. #cck09
@ChristyATucker yes!Research is to write, read and talk to others about the topic (practice), and all that is studying #cck09
Half an Hour: Facts versus skills. Comments from Stephen Downes, linked to from CCK09 http://bit.ly/4lQsF
inspired by these massively open courses - #cck09 and #eci831 - but they over-rely on synchronous sessions and do not offer podcasts
Enjoyed George Siemen's presentation for #cck09 today - highlights for me were comments about army, govt, and views on lurking .
RT @gminks social network basics http://bit.ly/lS7Nh from @downes #CCK09 daily
Kevin: Got to have both, surely? RT @nelliemuller CCK09 Although I am relationship oriented, losing interest in o/l programs not task based
CCK09 Although I am relationship oriented, I am losing interest in online learning programs that are not task based.
CCK09 Although I am relationship oriented, I am losing interest in online learning programs that are not task oriented.
4 forms of evolution of societies http://bit.ly/cs8t8 (via @downes #CCK09 daily)
social network basics http://bit.ly/lS7Nh from @downes #CCK09 daily
RT @jackiegerstein A Spezify for Connectivism http://bit.ly/hEeF3 #CCK09 (thx for the idea @jenwagner )
RT @mollybob: RT @luzpearson regarding open education and money - suggestion - sell services rather than content #cck09
RT @luzpearson regarding open education and money - suggestion - sell services rather than content #cck09
CCK09 – Do We Need The Daily Newsletter? « Online Sapiens: No problem in a world of network plasticity (aka neu.. http://bit.ly/WDzPE
Post, CCK09 – Do We Need The Daily Newsletter?, http://bit.ly/4o0A9C
Post, CCK09 – Do We Need The Daily Newsletter?, http://bit.ly/4o0A9C
@CCK09 How did you experience the instructors' musings in the live online meet: http://tinyurl.com/ye49jrm
CCK09: How did you experience the instructors' musings in the live online meet: http://tinyurl.com/ye49jrm
an "open" approach is connectivist - but a connectivist approach isn't necessarily "open"? http://bit.ly/43hc4Q #cck09
Cooksey (2005). I walk the open road: Toward an open source philosophy. Masters thesis. http://bit.ly/3LuNkH #openness #cck09 #yam
http://edcsd.org Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » Week 1, CCK09 http://bit.ly/36lrUU <- elearning links
@andreasauwaerte agree - l am looking at Activity Theory and Actor Network Theory but recog appeal of connectivism to practitioners #CCK09
@francesbell BTW i think there is an urgent urgent need to build a broader theoretical base to avoid normativity discussion. #cck09
RT @francesbell: @daveowhite RT @gsiemens: Recording from #CCK09 discussion today: http://bit.ly/GddN9
@gsiemens I had not read your post about your choice for an other job; can understand!! wish you all good. so soon 1 nov! #cck09 goes on?
@daveowhite RT @gsiemens: Recording from #CCK09 discussion today: http://bit.ly/GddN9
CCK09 - Today I’ve started participating on an online course called “CCK09” (Connectivism and Connective... http://tumblr.com/xom3dwxtu
Howdy From Texas: by Gus Goncalves. I ran across CCK09 by chance. It was a link from a presentation by Ma.. http://bit.ly/XWlzk
@jackiegerstein thanks for pointing others to Only Connect. What is #cck09?
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