Today's class revolved on Connectivism. After reading our assignment (http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm) I was left with one question which I went into class with- with the desire to learn what other have gotten from the reading before actually trying to answer it. To me, Connectivism revolves on the way the world is connected today. The Internet, a tool that changes everyday in its format, rules and structure. It is a fairly new technology and we have just started to explore it by introducing it to everyone from our 2-year old niece to 80-year old granpa.
Dr. Foreman mentioned about how people (professors, scientists) with knowledge are putting their theories, findings and their researches, and conclusions for the world to elaborate and take on unanswered questions--thus pushing a creative collaborative learning from all points of the world. Connectivism is making way for people out there in the world to find new, more efficient ways to provide information such as blogs, forums, websites, etc. But then comes the question: how efficient and valid is for a student to research endless blogs and forums about a particular subject where there is no sure way to identify who actually wrote all the information. This is how I came up to my pondering question. As a students in the ITEC program and future teachers, what is our responsibility in the needing process of cleaning up whats out there? What's our role going to be when laws, social norms/ethics catch up to the technology? Are we going to try and control what gets published out there? Can we sort it? Filter? Censor...? Never.
1 comments:
My feelings exactly Jonathan. I think that it's up to us, the teachers and trainers of the blooming webscape, to teach people how to use this wondrous resource responsibly and intelligently. Otherwise, it will continue on the path to being yet another source of noise in our everyday lives.
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