Click on the title. Great blog… there is an awful lot of interesting reading on here. Why is there so much to know, and why is my brain so small? I`m off home to watch zombie movies….
Actually, though, it doesn’t matter that my brain is small, as long as I know lots of other people who can keep other stuff in their brains. This is known as connectivism, the teenage son (in my opinion) of constructivism. You can read all about it here, as linked to in Vance Stevens’ blog.
• Downes, S. 2001-2008. E-learning 2.0. eLearn Magazine, retrieved from http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1
• Siemens, G. (2004). Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. Elearnspace, http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
I wrote about it myself here
http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/Elliott.pdf
but looking at it now it already seems a little naive and behind the times. The internet is growing like topsy, and in very, very different ways to anything we’ve been used to. Look at twitter…it’s gone through the roof. I don’t know why, exactly, but the kids love it. I wonder if the technology is leading us in some cases, rather than the other way around. Do people get excited by the novelty and find ways to use all this new stuff? Is it a drive to creativity, or an unecessary distraction. Well, that’s enough of a stream of conciousness for this evening. Back to the zombies
