{"id":246,"date":"2005-09-15T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=246"},"modified":"2005-09-15T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T12:59:44","slug":"connectivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/connectivism\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectivism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting stuff, as always, from George Siemens<\/a> and Konrad Glogowski. George’s discussion of meaning making merits a post all its own. Konrad’s blog today<\/a> also inspires a few thoughts on my end. I hope he would agree, or at least find them useful or provocative extensions of his thinking:<\/p>\n

  • \nYes: we should teach connection and pattern recognition.\n<\/li>\n
  • \nContent knowledge is crucial. Patterns are patterns of something(s), after all. It’s interesting and helpful to do figure\/ground reversal tricks with the pattern and its constituent elements to stimulate new thoughts, but neither pattern nor constituent element should be privileged in any theory of education. It’s pattern and elements, process and product, teacher and student, lecture and discussion, etc. Otherwise, we can’t do figure\/ground reversal tricks, and we risk not knowing anything.\n<\/li>\n
  • \nWe need to teach students how to make connections. We also need to teach them about other connectors. Great minds, in short. “Nor is there singing school \/ But studying monuments of its own magnificence,” writes Yeats. Sounds awfully arrogant, but it’s true: if you want to learn how to make connections, get very very close to someone who’s an ace at it. So much of the connecting and pattern recognition lies in tacit knowledge, subtle moves, unexpected yet rational decisions, irrational but not wholly random directions, oblique strategies a la Brian Eno, that students need the rich context of proximity to great connectors to get the full boost.\n<\/li>\n
  • \nRelated idea: people are nodes. Not discourse, not “culture,” not “society.” People. People are nodes. How can I connect? How can I be a connector? How can I be a connection? How can I put myself in a context where the chances of being or doing all those things goes up? Strategies for connection preparation. Fishing in well-stocked streams.\n<\/li>\n
  • \nThe idea of connection is itself a node, and another name for it is metaphor. How is a raven like a writing desk? How is a tortilla chip like a perfect, healthy strawberry cobbler cookie?\n<\/li>\n

    Way leads on to way. Viva la link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Interesting stuff, as always, from George Siemens and Konrad Glogowski. George’s discussion of meaning making merits a post all its own. Konrad’s blog today also inspires a few thoughts on my end. I hope he would agree, or at least … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-3Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}