John Connell

1. Photo from CARF http://www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/ John Connell

2. Learning 2.0 • The Power of Learning • in a • Networked World John Connell Cisco Systems John Connell

3. www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/ John Connell

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. The Nature of Interconnectedness John Connell

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9. Networking is natural; connecting is natural. John Connell

10. Dissolution of Time and Distance John Connell

11. Self-Organizing Networks John Connell

12. HyperNetworking: active, complex, systematic John Connell

13. Network Ecology Learning Ecology John Connell

14. Effective Networks are: • decentralized • distributed • disintermediated • disaggregated • dis-integrated • democratic • dynamic • desegregated John Connell

15. SmokestackSchooling? John Connell

16. 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’ The conditions that typified the school... John Connell

17. “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

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20. “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

21. “Education is an old ramshackle windmill that goes on flapping its great arms long after the miller has left.” RF Mackenzie John Connell

22. 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

23. Derived from the thinking and writing of Stephen Downes and George Siemens Some Principles of Network Learning? John Connell

24. Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinions John Connell

25. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources John Connell

26. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known John Connell

27. Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning John Connell

28. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. John Connell

29. The Purpose of Education in an Interconnected World John Connell

30. “A good education system should have three purposes...” from “Deschooling Society” http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html Ivan Illich John Connell

31. “It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives....” Ivan Illich John Connell

32. “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

33. “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

34. 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. 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

35. affirmative transformation extending human horizons realizing personal and social potential What should Education be about? John Connell

36. maintaining the status quo affirming social station protecting and reinforcing the prevailing economic condition What has Education too often been about? John Connell

37. affirmative transformation making the world a better place to live in extending human capacity and capability for collective benefit What should Technology be about? John Connell

38. killing and controlling damaging our world rendering people (and peoples) passive What has Technology too often been about? John Connell

39. “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

40. Compassion Respect for Natural Systems Self-determination Respect for Rights of Non-Humans VALUES Respect for Others Tolerating Differentness Respect for Future Generations Equity Derived from Jonathan Porritt “Capitalism as if the World Matters” 2005 John Connell

41. Some Thoughts on Network Learning John Connell

42. Criteria for Network Learning... John Connell

43. Connectivity Diversity Opennness Autonomy John Connell

44. 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

45. 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

46. http://www.ltc.arizona.edu/pdf/NetworkLearning.pdf Pithamber R. Polsani ...education should be redefined as preparedness for change... ...education should be redefined as preparedness for change... John Connell

47. 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. ...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

48. 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

49. Pedagogy for Network Learning? John Connell

50. Paulo Freire on Pedagogy.... Paulo Freire John Connell