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Learning 2.0

• The Power of Learning
• in a
• Networked World

John Connell Cisco Systems
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www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/
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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
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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
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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
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The Nature of Interconnectedness
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Networking is natural connecting is natural.
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Dissolution of Time and Distance
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Self-Organizing Networks
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HyperNetworking active, complex, systematic
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Network Ecology
Learning Ecology
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Effective Networks are
decentralized distributed disintermediated disaggr
egated dis-integrated democratic dynamic desegrega
ted
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SmokestackSchooling?
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• 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...
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The great mistake we educationists make is to
suppose that schools are about education. It is
not so....they are about control...
RF Mackenzie
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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
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Education is an old ramshackle windmill that
goes on flapping its great arms long after the
miller has left.
RF Mackenzie
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• 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

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Some Principles of Network Learning?
Derived from the thinking and writing of Stephen
Downes and George Siemens
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Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of
opinions
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Learning is a process of connecting specialized
nodes or information sources
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Capacity to know more is more critical than what
is currently known
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Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed
to facilitate continual learning
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Ability to see connections between fields, ideas,
and concepts is a core skill.
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The Purpose of Education in an Interconnected
World
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from Deschooling Society
http//reactor-core.org/deschooling.html

• A good education system should have three
  purposes...

Ivan Illich
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It should provide all who want to learn with
access to available resources at any time in
their lives....
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• It should empower all who want to share what
  they know to find those who want to learn it from
  them....

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• It should furnish all who want to present an
  issue to the public with the opportunity to make
  their challenge known...

Ivan Illich
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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
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What should Education be about?

• affirmative transformation
• extending human horizons
• realizing personal and social potential

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What has Education too often been about?

• maintaining the status quo
• affirming social station
• protecting and reinforcing the prevailing
  economic condition

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What should Technology be about?

• affirmative transformation
• making the world a better place to live in
• extending human capacity and capability for
  collective benefit

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What has Technology too often been about?

• killing and controlling
• damaging our world
• rendering people (and peoples) passive

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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
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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
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Some Thoughts on Network Learning
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• Criteria for Network Learning...

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Connectivity Diversity Opennness Autonomy
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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Knowledge is created... Knowledge is
grown... Knowledge is personal... Knowledge is
socially mediated... Knowledge is making
connections.... Knowledge is recognizing
patterns... Knowledge is perception...
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Pedagogy for Network Learning?
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• Paulo Freire on Pedagogy....

Paulo Freire
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...learners are active participants
and co-constructors of knowledge...
Paulo Freire
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...learning should be meaningful purposeful to
the learners...
Paulo Freire
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...learning should have a critical focus...
Paulo Freire
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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
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http//www.downes.ca/
Knowledge is not located in anygiven 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
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• Investigative learning
• Problem-based learning
• Community-based learning
• Experiential learning
• Self-directed learning
• Dialogical Network-based learning
• etc.........

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Some Trends for the Future?
New Horizon Reports 2007 2008 Educause / New
Media Consortium
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User-Created Content
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Social Networking
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Mobility
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Metaverse / Extended Reality
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Multiplayer Online Gaming
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The Pragmatic Web
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Social Operating Systems
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Grassroots Video
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Data Mashups
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Web 2.0 A Shifting Context for Education
Individual Production Power of the Crowd Data on
an Epic Scale Complex Participation Network
Effects Openness
Blogs Wikis Podcasts Mashups Tagging /
Folksonomy RSS
Paul Anderson (JISC) - What is Web 2.0 Ideas,
Technologies and Implications for Education
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Cult of the Amateur....?
...instead of creating masterpieces, these
millions and millions of exuberant monkeys
Internet usersmany with no more talent in the
creative arts than our primate cousinsare
creating an endless digital forest of
mediocrity.
Andrew Keen
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Cult of the Amateur....?
Wisdom of the crowd are internet activists who
are stealing our culture from us .
Andrew Keen
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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
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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
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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
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The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with
the falling of the dusk.
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Philosophy...always comes on the scene too
late.. When philosophy paints its gray in gray,
then has a shape of life grown old. By
philosophys gray in gray it cannot be
rejuvenated but only understood.
GWF Hegel
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Learning 2.0

• The Power of Learning
• in a
• Networked World

www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog
redpathjohn_at_mac.com
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Thank You
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