February 28, 2011
Dates: February 28 - March 7, 2011
Overview
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) are a significant shift in thinking. Instead of seeing the world as a mechanistic structure that produces set outcomes, CAS states that multiple interacting elements respond continually to feedback from each other and the environment. As such, it is difficult to predict outcomes. This limitation suggests that since outcomes are not always knowable, our attention is best served when directed at the elements interacting and the nature of their interactions.
Readings
Seminars
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Friday Audio Recording
Stephen Downes,
CCK11, February 25, 2011.
Audio recording from Friday's session.
Enclosure: files/audio/cck11_25February11.mp3
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This is a list of the blog posts mentioning the CCK11 keyword or tag harvested from the list of blogs submitted by participants.
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Understanding self-similarity: An example
damoclarky, Damo's World
Self-similarity. What a mind-bender. A concept related to Complex adaptive systems, and a distinguishing property from that of multi-agent systems. This very brief blog post relates to my study of CCK11 and my attempt to understand self-similarity through my own example. So, here is my example of self-similarity based on the examples provided in the [...] [Link]
2011-02-28T10:58:48
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Thinking of learning theory # cck11 Einstein or Toolkit.
jaapsoft2, connectiv
Jenny Mackness writes a little masterpiece about the discussion on connectivism being a learning theory. Education and learning and teaching is a very complex subject of study. Mostly because humans and their children are part of the subject. Sociology of education is studying this complexity. One view of a learning theory is: A learning theory [...] [Link]
2011-02-28T10:06:06
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#PLENK2010 in #CCK11
alan, Connectivism-2011 (per alQpr)
In this post I want to collect some links to personal learning issues and tools which I will probably also cover more fully in my PLENK site. (Week 6 of the cck course could be considered as a quick recap of the plenk one.) I expect it to grow over time as I will add [...] [Link]
2011-02-27T22:42:48
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Paranoia
alan, Connectivism-2011 (per alQpr)
Lindsay Jordan’s “paranoid thought” about cck11 does prompt a serious question about the ‘Groups vs Networks’ issue. How can the idea(l) of “flattening” the network’s connectivity function be promoted without needing a “spike” (ie a highly connected node like Stephen’s site) to do [Link]
2011-02-27T21:49:51
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PLE and certification #cck11
jaapsoft2, connectiv
Abdullah SAYKILI has a question 2: Considering people get their certificates or diplomas from institutionalized education systems, how do we manage assessment and evaluation when we follow a PLE perspective of learning and teaching? In schools for vocational education people of all ages follow courses and receive certificates. One kind of certificate is called ” [...] [Link]
2011-02-27T20:55:44
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PISA Reading Test: Something Is Rotten In The State of Denmark #CCK11 #ELTchat #edchat #ukedchat #edreform #education #edtech #technology #Teachers #lrnchat #elemchat #elearning #esl #efl #elt #esol #ell #TEFL #TESOL #IATEFL
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Reading. That’s five core elements: 1. Phonemic Awareness, 2. Phonics, 3. Fluency, 4. Vocabulary, and 5. Comprehension. So, what is PISA testing? All of these? Some of these? None of these? http://www.slideshare.net/profesorbaker/unlocking-reading-for-all-students-presentation Here’s the answer: “In the reading test, “OECD/PISA … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-27T21:24:40
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Having Fun with Connectivism - #CCK11
hamtra@gmail.com (Tracy Parish), Discovery Through eLearning
Having some fun searching through the internet I came across a page that let's you find the shortest number of clicks from one Wikipedia article to another. The example starts with Kevin Bacon to AI - 3 Clicks.
So I tried: Kevin Bacon to Connectivism - 5 Clicks
Kevin BaconChristmasGerman language-ismList of belief systemsConnectivism
I tried Kevin Bacon to George Siemens - 5 clicks because it includes the 4 clicks below:
To get from Kevin Bacon to Stephen Downes
Kevin .... [Link]
2011-02-27T21:18:00
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Connectivism Word Cloud - #CCK11
hamtra@gmail.com (Tracy Parish), Discovery Through eLearning
I used Wordle and a popular tagged site for CCK11 - Welcome to Connectivism! — Connectivism
I love that Knowledge, Learning & Information really stand [Link]
2011-02-27T19:53:00
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Feedback for tasks #cck11 question of teacher
jaapsoft2, connectiv
Some Students seek hastily and by ‘trial and error for good solutions, instead of reading or listening to the built-in help and feedback. Children of about 10-12 years old did a task in a Zoo. On their mobile phones they received a small task when they were near a certain animal (using GPS) The task [...] [Link]
2011-02-27T20:12:49
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How do You Manage Your Information
, Best content in CCK2011 | Diigo - Groups
Comments:Link from back chat on PLNs. George Seimens' blog post on how he manages information with a request at the end for a comment about how you manage information. - Ruth DemitroffTags: #CCK11, PLN, Web 2.0by: Ruth [Link]
2011-02-27T18:00:51
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CCK11: Why Networks?
keith.hamon@gmail.com (keith.hamon), Communications & Society
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2011-02-27T16:30:00
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Week05: Groups, Networks and Collectives (CCK11)
swedinbalchik, Swedinbalchik's Blog » CCK11
This my video presentation called ‘Distributed Learning’ from week 5 in CCK11: Week05 Insights: •We create a relevant online discussion when we post our reactions to other people’s points of view. These connections link their content to our perspectives and by sharing my understanding I increase my own capacity. It’s important to let your own [...] [Link]
2011-02-27T15:43:29
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#CCK11 Are you going with network flow or personal flow?
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
I have been pondering on this basic question since I was young: Are you going with the flow (following the herd, or the system, or networks etc.) or growing with your own soul (personal flow)? Or both. Why am I concerned … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-27T14:08:12
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Facebook: A Virtual Coffeehouse???
abdullahsaykili@gmail.com (Abdullah SAYKILI), CCK11 - Abdullah's Open Window
Hi again,I was thinking about what implications a social networking site such as Facebook could have when it is used with classmates in CCK11 MOOC. You know that we have created a Facebook group for CCK11 course and some conversation has been going on this group where everyone is an admin so that no one is superior to anyone, and the number of members is increasing each day. We are currently 121 experts, ameteurs, lurkers, creators, consumers, educators; we are all different people with .... [Link]
2011-02-26T21:44:00
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When Was The Last Time You Cried – Tears Of Joy? #elemchat #edchat #education #ELTchat #CCK11 #ukedchat #esl #edreform
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Teachers. We have the greatest job on the planet? Yes, teachers we have the greatest job on the planet. Today I shall be of few words. The last time I cried over a story someone else shared, I honestly can’t … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-26T22:42:01
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Week 6 – Personal Learning Environments & Networks #CCK11 #ELTchat #edchat #edreform #ukedchat #lrnchat #elearning #edtech #technology #education #esl #efl #elt #ell #Teacher #esol #TEFL #TESOL #IATEFL
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Once upon a time, so the story begins, and how it ends, is yet to be revealed… For me, this week was, and is, the most important one of the whole course. It directs my reflections to my personal reason(s) … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-26T19:36:38
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#CCK11 Personal Learning Environments & Open Educational Resources
Lars Was, eConnections
After a bussy week, I’m finally ready to write down my own thoughts about this theme. PLE’s are a very important way of learning, I think. This environment creates a space where you as a learner can self-create (as mentioned in the friday Elluminate session). Things appropriate for the learners needs. An attractive idea since [...] [Link]
2011-02-26T14:31:18
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Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
abdullahsaykili@gmail.com (Abdullah SAYKILI), CCK11 - Abdullah's Open Window
I feel terrible because I missed yesterday's session on PLE and PLN. I would like to begin with how I would define PLE. To me PLE is collection of any kind of platform that an individual uses to collect, control, create, share and collaborate resources. A PLE is also an environment where multiple experts, amateurs, resources and tools are brought together. The key point in a PLE is its participative and creative side. Within a PLE the individual does not only comsume information but .... [Link]
2011-02-26T13:30:00
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Girls R Great & Boys R Bad: What R We Gonna Do? #CCK11 #ELTchat #edchat #ukedchat #edreform #education #elearning #lrnchat # esl #efl #ell #esol #TEFL #TESOL #IATEFL #elt #Teacher #edtech #technology #reading
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Reading is an important skill that girls are great at. A decade of PISA statistics tell the whole world this story. The untold story, however, is that boys are not good readers. Again, the PISA test results of the past … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-26T14:50:38
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Início da semana 7 - Complexidade
T, lúcidaTranslúcida #CCK11
O #CCK11 Conhecimento e Conhecimento Conectivo procura nos situar perante o fluxo das informações que surgem em nossas conexões, quando em simples gestos navegamos, pescamos na malhas da web.O nosso conhecimento anterior é sempre acionado e no momento em que partilhamos nós acrescentamos muito mais e em diversas formas; são signos, significados e significantes acoplados em imagens, vídeos, gráficos, sons que dispomos, na maioria das vezes, livremente.as leituras são independentes .... [Link]
2011-02-26T14:46:00
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What do our students need? #cck11
jaapsoft2, connectiv
Christine Vaufrey What if students do not have time to “faire soi-même” , do it self? How to connect when time is scarce? It is not the school that makes the curriculum and the timetable. Students want their diploma. School wants most students to get a result. The teacher has to solve this problem, being creative. [...] [Link]
2011-02-26T10:45:35
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Have You Read, “Looking for Catarina?” #CCK11 #ELTchat #edchat #ukedchat #edreform #elearning #lrnchat #esl #efl #elt #ell #esol #TESOL #IATEFL #education #edtech #Teacher #technology
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
You have heard that boys are not good readers, haven’t you? It’s not even a secret. Everyone knows it. World wide. It’s a planetary puzzle. I’ve got the solution to the “Girls read Great and Boys read Bad” problem. The … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-26T02:55:16
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An Imagined Interview with Myself: About Poem 1 (Let It Be) #ELTchat #CCK11 #esl #efl #elt #esol #ell #education #edreform #edtech #elearning #lrnchat #ukedchat #TESOL #IATEFL #Teacher #technology
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Last year, my students had a unique opportunity. They interviewed a famous musician and composer. When asked about the message in the music, the composer answered: “I never tell anyone what my music means. If I tell you what to … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-25T23:46:00
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Connectivism is Making Us Smarter
Debbie Kroeker, Rethinking Learning and Technology
Today, I stumbled up a a study called Your Brain on Google where the brain activity in two groups were studied in an MRI while performing a traditional text reading task and then an internet search task. The "net naive" group (those who were relatively new to internet searches) and the "net savvy" group (those with more extensive experience with internet searches) performed at the same level in the traditional reading task; however, in the internet search task, the net savvy .... [Link]
2011-02-25T18:26:00
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Participate, cooperate, engage, connect are verbs #cck11
jaapsoft2, connectiv
The blog Jenny Connected inspired to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivism and add some improvements to the article on Connectivism. Internet basically is a set of connections. The URL (the blue underlined text you find in this blogpost) is a connection to a file somewhere on internet. And some of us know what peanut butter has to [...] [Link]
2011-02-25T21:22:43
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Leader: What Are You Supposed to Do? #ELTchat #edchat #ukedchat #Teacher #education #CCK11
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
I am a leader. I’m supposed to help teachers be the best possible teacher(s) they can be. I’m supposed to be a model for the teachers on my team. A teacher is supposed to look at me, and think to … Continue reading → [Link]
2011-02-25T21:36:27
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Social and connective lock-in
, Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily
George Siemens,
elearnspace, February 25, 2011.
Today's online session in the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course was one of those where new ideas emerge from the interplay of ideas. In this case, the new ideas were the twin concepts of 'social lock-in' 'connective lock-in':
- Social lock-in – where we are reluctant to move to new social networks because all of our friends/colleagues are part of our current social network service.
- Connective lock-.... [Link]
2011-02-25T14:18:02
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elearnspace › Social and connective lock-in
, Best content in CCK2011 | Diigo - Groups
Comments:"Social lock-in – where we are reluctant to move to new social networks because all of our friends/colleagues are part of our current social network service. When Twitter was experiencing downtime issues a few years ago, some individuals moved to Plurk, Identi.ca, or other services. But, in the end, the social lock-in of Twitter was sufficient to pull many back. We’re experiencing this to some degree in our work/research building a social learning network at Athabasca University –.... [Link]
2011-02-25T20:28:52
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Personal Learning Environment & Networks (PLENKs) - Online Discussion (#CCK11)
hamtra@gmail.com (Tracy Parish), Discovery Through eLearning
Notes taken during today's online discussion.
Participants thoughts of PLEs
All of my resources, tools, communities, and networks that I learn with every day.
the tools, people, resources that I cultivate to create a learning ecosystem
A self-created collection of resources and people
Whatever in my environment supports learning
what I lose when the web goes down
The tools I use to connect to all "my twitter connections" and how I save that information
A combination of tools, services .... [Link]
2011-02-25T18:04:00
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Stephen Downes: The Role of the Educator
, Best content in CCK2011 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: downes, PLE, CCK11, educatorby: Mohsen [Link]
2011-02-25T18:07:02
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CCK11, Connectivism, and Quantitative Analysis
keith.hamon@gmail.com (keith.hamon), Communications & Society
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2011-02-25T15:25:00
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Des fleurs coupées, des rhizomes et des boîtes à outils (CCK11/4)
christine-vaufrey, Le blog de Christine Vaufrey
Je donne des cours dans un centre de formation aux métiers de la solidarité internationale, l’Institut Bioforce, situé à Vénissieux, dans l’agglomération lyonnaise. Comme dans la plupart des formations professionnelles qualifiantes, les programmes sont extrêmement denses (les étudiants parcourent en 8 ou 9 mois l’équivalent de deux années universitaires), et comme nombre de mes collègues, [...] [Link]
2011-02-25T13:19:29
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Facebook: A Virtual Coffeehouse???
LeahGrrl,
1117 - CCK11 - Abdullah's Open Window, February 28, 2011.
I've had a bad experience with Facebook, which is why I closed my account last year and probably will not open a new one, even with your encouraging and optimistic ideas here. I do wish sometimes I could participate in the CCK group on Facebook, it seems active and engaged and I would like that. Yet it's quite unlikely I'll ever go back, even if it would be good in some ways. The difference between Facebook and a coffeehouse is that a coffeehouse doesn't constantly bombard you with silly surveys or offensive polls, steal and then sell your information, and then lock the door with you inside. It's extremely hard to actually leave the FB "cafe": last year it took me a week and I'm still not convinced I've done every one of the dozens of steps it takes to eliminate "me" there. I agree that FB can be an opportunity to connect, but when I weigh the true costs of the free service to me, it's not worth it. I think it's way more dangerous than a moodle-.... [Comment]
Use Twitter #Hashtags to Amplify Your Learning!
LeahGrrl,
1200 - ZaidLearn, February 25, 2011.
This overview of Twitter is pretty helpful to me; thank you for posting it. I signed up for Twitter and have been using it for the CCK2011 postings, but I'm not quite seeing its value. For instance, it seems that for every tweet, there are a dozen re-tweets that show up and clog my Droid. It's kind of frustrating to see that endless repetition. Also, usually the tweets are just links with no commentary, so I don't have a good idea what might be in my areas of particular interest. I'm going to use some of the links you have here to try to use it better. Thank you! Best, [Comment]
Learning Theories in CCK11
Ken Anderson,
1186 - Connectivism-2011 (per alQpr), February 25, 2011.
I think that looking at what we value as important in learning is critical to a deeper understanding of connectivism. It is probably useful to get away from thinking of connectivism as a theory and move towards thinking of it as an ideology, as you [Comment]
Groups vs Networks in CCK11
Ken Anderson,
1186 - Connectivism-2011 (per alQpr), February 25, 2011.
Hi Alan I wonder if Stephens Downes preference for mesh networks is connected to an egalitarian ideology, in the sense of a 'classless society', which, in network-speak might be the equivalent of 'all nodes are the same'? [Comment]
These are individual comments posted today to the discussion threads (for new discussion threads, see the list above).
vjansen, Re: Who needs textbooks?, I think Cable hits the mark when he speaks about ....If you use the CCK11 tag on Twitter, your Twitter posts will be collected and listed here (note that harvesting only started Friday morning).
@ELAcademy (E-learning akademija) tweeted: RT @timbuckteeth: RT @weblearning Attacks on Connectivism http://bit.ly/gonxnJ @downes @gsiemens 2011-02-28T13:22:28