1. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age George Siemens gsiemens@elearnspace.org

2. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies What does a theory do? Explains Guides Links knowledge and implementation Builds foundation of its own obsolesce

3. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Knowledge To 'know' something is to be organized in a certain way, to exhibit patterns of connectivity. To 'learn' is to acquire certain patterns. (Downes, 2006)

4. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies What does it mean to Learn? Learning is about knowledge - to relate - to acquire - to connect - to create - to communicate

5. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Knower, content, context

6. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Knowledge Growth

7. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Softening Knowledge

8. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies What does it mean to know?

9. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Containers and Patterns

10. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies The quest for externality Thoughts and language Symbols Tools to externalize and connect

11. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Seeing the Whole

12. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies …we suggest that the objects of thought, the very things upon which mental processes directly operate, are not always inside the brain…The cognitive processing that gives rise to mental experience may be something whose functioning cuts across the superficial physical boundaries between brain, body, and environment. (Spivey et al, 2004)

13. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies The distributed cognition perspective aspires to rebuild cognitive science from the outside in,, beginning with the social and material setting of cognitive activity, so that culture, context, and history can be linked with the core concepts of cognition (Hutchins, 2000)

14. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Internalization Behaviourism Cognitivism Constructivism

15. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Connectivism Externalization Learning is chaotic, not structured Learning is network formation (or pattern recognition) Distributed Networks filter Adaptive

16. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Its distributed

17. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Learning Networks Internal (the architecture of a brain) External (the nodes we connect)

18. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Context

19. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Learning Ecology

20. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Spaces and Structures

21. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Humans create their cognitive powers in part by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers (Hutchins, 2000)

22. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Knowledge Spaces

23. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Knowledge Structures

24. Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies www.elearnspace.org www.connectivism.ca ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress www.knowingknowledge.com