Concept Map in table and text box format

Though I appreciate the concept map tool and appearance the maps

always result in an image that is either completely viewable but not

readable or readable but apparently consisting of isolated ideas. As a

metaphor for the completeness of a concept this format here is really no

better. Here it is anyway..

Scott Johnson CCK11

Contents (week’s key ideas) Week 1: Connectivism? Week 2: Patterns Week 3: Knowledge Week 4: Unique? Week 5: Groups, Networks Week 6: PLENK Week 7: Adaptive Systems Week 8: Power & Authority Week 9: Openness Week 10: Net Pedagogy Week 11: Research & Analytics Week 12: Changing views

The assignment was to keep track of the week’s key ideas and display how the concepts are connected: Some ideas were quite

powerful at setting off a cascade of further discovery

Some ideas seemed neutral And some ideas simply

couldn’t escape the negative gravity generated by what I perceived as an atmosphere toxic to learning.

Disclosure

Learning can’t escape the atmosphere in which it is presented. This course was an uncomfortable experience that basically distracted me from the content. The reason I consider myself a practicing connectivist in the first place is to avoid being told to be quiet, go away and then have to endure a number of explanations of why what I feel isn’t really what I feel. I don’t need “educated” explanations of what I already understand . They aren’t well-intentioned, they are an expression of power and appropriation of voice. If education can’t tolerate the bad habits of those who live rough on the internet then it should just go back to it’s walled compounds. Colonizing the net for the purpose of replicating old systems unable or unwilling to reflect on past failures is a total waste of the potential of renewal available here.

Using Experience for Learning http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=115928498

This course was mentioned on someone’s blog post around the beginning of March. Though the source is lost to my memory, the suggestion lives on in my now taking a great class and learning more about systems thinking. Thank You to whoever it was! Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2130 Este curso foi mencionado no post do blog de alguém no começo de março. Embora a fonte é perdida a minha memória, a sugestão de vida na minha agora a tomar uma grande classe e aprender mais sobre o pensamento sistêmico. Obrigado a quem quer que fosse! Gestão da Complexidade: Uma Abordagem Sistêmica

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2130

2.2 Taking responsibility for your own learning

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397809&section=2.2

“.... As well as being the only logically

consistent way of learning systems thinking, there is plenty of research

evidence ‛For example, see Using Experience for Learning (Boud, D. Cohen,

R. and Walker, D. (eds) 1993, Open

University Press, Buckingham)” to show that understandings and knowledge that one acquires through discovery is retained and developed much more readily than the understandings one acquires through being told, or even shown. Taking responsibility for your own learning in this way is challenging but it

need not be difficult. It requires a preparedness to experiment with ideas

and styles of learning that may not

initially feel right or comfortable.”

So what are the connections week over week? As a developing understanding inside my head connectivism seems clearly associated with the process of knowledge seeking I’ve learned to use over the years. What I’ve displayed here is how I perceive the idea of connectivism at this moment. This is about as focused as I get when thinking holistically

One all-purpose arrow to represent connections