Why I store my knowledge in my friends

Wouah! I’m super excited with the Coetail program as I’m learning new things that open new horizons!!
Genius and powerful! Those are the words that came into my mind after reading “Connectivism: a learning theory for the digital age” by George Siemens.
This is so obvious! Of course, I have used this theory before. And you know what? I have experienced it just before writing this post. What I have done? To make sure that I understand it well, I did some research. As I “messed around”, I have found several interesting, inspiring articles and videos but this one makes sense for me.


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I store my knowledge in my friends


As George Siemens says: “Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime. Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same.
Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking.”
Karen Stephenson states: “Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).”

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Connectivism


Some of the principles of the connectivsm theory are:
-Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
-Learning is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources.
-Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning
-Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
-Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

Bloom’s digital taxonomy


Clearly, this theory helps me to understand how I have continued to learn since as I finished my formal schooling. I feel a need to use or to integrate it in my teaching. But how? How can I utilise it to engage and motivate my students? And then, once again, it’s so obvious! As I have been using the Bloom ‘s Taxonomy, I just should use the Bloom’s digital taxonomy by Andrew Churches.
Instead of listing, students could bullet pointing, instead of recalling, they could highlighting, instead of understanding they could blog journaling….

Messing around


That would be the key for keeping the students engaged as “Living and learning with new media: Summary of findings from the digital youth Project" reports: “When messing around, young people begin to take an interest in and focus on the workings and content of the technology and media themselves, tinkering, exploring and extending their understanding.” The finding identifies some activities like looking around, searching for information online, experimentation and play with gaming and digital media production. All of those are already part of the curriculum except that they are not digital.

After all the readings from last week, I feel like I have just had a "light bulb moment". Re-using on the principle of connectives, I was able to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts. It helps me to understand how I should use digital tools in my classroom.

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  1. Rebekah MadridSeptember 20, 2015 at 5:09 AM

    I love lightbulb moments! So much fun to see you messing around and making the connection to your own learning. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. MagaliSeptember 20, 2015 at 8:20 AM

    Thanks Rebekah!

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  3. Lulu ChenSeptember 28, 2015 at 10:28 AM

    Hi Magali,
    When I read your section about messing around, I myself just had a lightbulb moment of connecting! Recently, I have been giving my students a little bit of free time to mess around on their chromebooks to learn the features of google slide. The very first time I let them touch their chromebooks to use google slide, they were clueless as to what to do. Even when I encouraged them "play around" and "just click anywhere" they were still quite hesitant. I think they were a little confused by the idea that a teacher would give them permission to "play" on their computers (truth be told I hate the words "play with computers" because to me it gives the wrong impression of what students are achieving, but that's for another future post). After the second session of google slides, they were a lot more comfortable with exploring and were eager to share their discoveries. Even I was able to learn something new from their exploration! They taught me another way in which I could find pictures instead of a separate google search. I guess the lightbulb moment that I wanted to explain was that through my students' messing around on the computer, I was able to develop a new understanding of how to use google slides and the connection I made was that this google slides feature is also probably applicable to many other apps. Though this connection may not necessarily be a deep or enduring understanding, it is definitely a useful one for me to remember!
    Anyways, thanks for your post which helped me generate ideas!

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