[Year 12 IPM] VELS and ICT *An Attempt to Model an Ideal Working Relationship

[Bill Kerr]

oops, Phil, just noticed that one of your furl links is to the George 
Siemens paper - oh well, no harm done in drawing some more attention to it

probably all teachers would have the same problem of lack of time to get 
their heads around these learning theories but I persist in my belief that 
we are going through a paradigm shift and that might mean that we need a new 
learning theory such as Siemen's Connectivism, eg. there may be some 
re-wiring for those with early exposure to computer games, mobile phones 
etc. 

On 7/27/05, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hi Phil,
> 
> thanks for the furl references and the paper by Gerry White - in one spot 
> you or one of the references says:
> 
> *Given the above, and the opportunities that ICT can enable in education 
> > and training, this paper argues that a new theory of learning, to provide a 
> > pedagogical framework for the digital age which is based on connectedness, 
> > is required urgently.*
> > 
> 
> George Siemens has suggested such a new learning theory which he calls 
> Connectivism.
> See http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
> 
> George Siemens blogs at http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
> 
> I blogged about this back in March
> http://billkerr.blogspot.com/2005/03/learning-theory.html
> 
> I like his ideas but still need to spend some time putting them into 
> perspective with the other dreaded -isms (constuctivism, behaviourism, 
> cognitivism)
> 
> -- 
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
> http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm 
> 
>
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