User:Vtaylor/CCK11


 * CCK11 - course outline

follow-up


 * “Training is for pigeons" - The Subordination of Teaching to Learning - lots of great links - need to read more...


 * “Training is for pigeons" - The Subordination of Teaching to Learning - lots of great links - need to read more...


 * Gattegno suggests that learning takes place in four stages which can be described in terms of awareness. 1. a single act of awareness: the realisation that there is something new to be explored. As long as I am unaware that there is something to be known, I cannot start to learn. 2. as I start to learn, I have to explore the situation in order to understand it. 3. transitional stage. At the beginning, I am able to do what I want if I pay attention at each instant. At the end of this stage I no longer need to pay attention: the new skill has become completely automatic and because it is automatic, I am free to give my attention to learning other things. 4. transfer. For the rest of my life, what I have learnt can be used for all the new skills I may wish to acquire.

[http://cck11.mooc.ca/post/54793 Yes, but... vtaylor, February 9, 2011] Actually, I am starting to really like this new way of learning, connecting, distributing, whatever... It has been a bit chaotic to start but that's ok. That's what I'm here for.

I was finding the Moodle threads too dense content-wise as they seemed to attract the academic folks. Individual blog posts are great, and now they are gathered up in the daily newsletter, that helps a lot. I have been pleasantly surprised to find much to like about the Tweets now that they too are corralled into the newsletter. And this linear blog is working, but then I have always had a preference for one long page with lots of headings, clean layout and white space.

I'm more of a feet-on-the-street practitioner - community college, high school academy-within-a-school. So this new "structure" works better for me and those I will be encouraging to come on board with CCK.


 * Thomas Vander Wal Recordings from Wednesday's session : audio/mpeg


 * An Introduction to Activity Theory - tools, subject, object/outcome, rules, community, division of labor


 * Tracy Parish LinkedIn map - Proud Connections to the Blue Cloud People


 * The difference between learning and teaching


 * Connectivism and Social Constructivism – what’s the difference?


 * Thinking Inside of the Circle May Be Just What You Need


 * How does Connectivism deal with unlearning knowledge?


 * Castañeda, Soto Building Personal Learning Environments by using and mixing ICT tools in a professional way - use ICT tools for learning, even if they actually do. They value, useful tools which help them to plan their tasks, save time, simplify complicated tasks and, definitively, have fun; but also they specially value the ICT tools they discovered, seeing opportunities for Independency, collaboration, self importance in the learning process. The vast majority of students have a basic perception of their PLE. Few of them don’t relate tools with themselves but with their tasks, and only some of them go one step further by establishing more complex relationships between tools, contents, tasks and themselves enriching each other.


 * Siemens - How does learning occur? What factors influence learning? What is the role of memory? How does transfer occur? What types of learning are best explained by this theory?


 * Downes - What Connectivism Is Not - four elements of the semantic condition (diversity, autonomy, openness, connectedness)


 * --Valerie Taylor 16:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC) I'm working with community college instructors building personal learning networks. As a WikiEducator Community Council member, I am actively advocating universal access to science and engineering education. I'm looking forward to learning more about connecting and knowing.


 * Cynthia (in comment) - Why don’t people share?, you ask. Several reasons. Fear as you mentioned, but that fear has to be overcome by looking at the advantages and benefits that result with sharing – i.e. finding and collaborating with others, like yourself, that are not hesitant to share and have loads to offer.