[Yr7-10it] Connectivism

[Bill Kerr]

Connectivism is a new learning theory develop by George Siemens. He has 
developed it in conjunction with a critique of limitations of 
constructivism, cognitivism and behavourism.

His definitive paper is here:
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Other articles are here:
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/index.htm

Blog, wiki, discussion forum and email list info is here:
http://www.connectivism.ca/

I like his ideas and find them interesting but don't feel that I'm expert 
enough on learning theory to pass judgement. I'm in the process of slowly 
trying to learn more. I've signed up at his connectivism site and hope to 
post comments and questions there.

I do know a little bit about constructivism / constructionism and have read 
just about everything written by Seymour Papert - and am a huge fan of Brian 
Harvey, author of open source logo and a great learning theorist (
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/papers.html) - as well working with logo for 
several years and attempting to set up constructionist classroom 
environments. To qualify that statement I would also say that it's 
ridiculous IMO to push just one learning theory barrow, in the past I've 
said that learning is a continuum ranging from behavourism to constuctivism 
and that it's important as teacher learners that we walk the walk across the 
whole continuum.

I'm engaged by George Siemens assertion that it's time for a new kid on the 
block

I blogged about this back in March this year:
http://billkerr.blogspot.com/2005/03/learning-theory.html
-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm
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