Saturday, September 6, 2008
Week 2: Connectivism and the information explosion
People have always said "necessity is the mother of invention" and that seems to hold true for education also. In George Seimens post about connectivism, he discusses the explosive increase in the rate of knowledge creation and the "inventions" within education that have appeared to help accommodate this explosion. A primary mechanism is the ability to share both knowledge retrieval and knowledge creation. Today, with all the Web 2.0 technologies available to us, we share known knowledge across the web. In addition, we can now collaborate on the knowledge creation process across both time and space with such tools as this blog.
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I love the fact that Web 2.0 technologies allow for authentic collaboration and transfer of information among individuals. Blogs are great for sharing information, commentary and reflection. I also like the fact that you can post in real-time with minimal difficulty.
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