Connectivism - are we taking it seriously?

Just watching the slideshow (Social Networking Technologies for teaching and learning transformation) embedded below by the well known George Siemens from Manitoba University in Canada. He gave the talk at the e-Learning Africa conference in Dakar in May 2009. The show hints at very big issues surrounding teaching and learning, and I don't know if we are ready for the implications of being connected to networked learning ourselves, and servicing learners who have to become wayfinders, sensemakers and connectors in an abundance of information.

The quote on slide 25 is powerful:

"What we have here is a transition from a stable, settled world of knowledge produced by authority/authors, to a world of instability, flux, of knowledge produced by the individual" (Insitute of Education, London 2007).

Also draws in a lot of e-Learning theory and how it now evolves into news traditions of learning. Great stuff!

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