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Week 5WordPress: Sub PagesConnectivism: Review

Knowledge Communities

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Week Module

Date Topic Assignments

5 2 Oct 3-7ICT and Learning: Social Software and Knowledge Communities

Recommended Completion of Portfolio Entry #1

6 3 Oct 10-14ICT and ECE: Integration of ICT into Professional Practice

7 3 Oct 17-21ICT and ECE: Developmentally Appropriate Software

Test #2 ICT, ECE & Learning (10%)

Oct 24-28 Reading Week: No ClassesRecommended Completion of Portfolio Entry #2

8 4 Oct 31-Nov 4 Software Evaluation Presentations Presentations and Reports Due

9 4 Nov 7-11 Software Evaluation Presentations Presentations and Reports Due

10 5 Nov 14-18ICT and Management: Planning, Communication and Organization

11 6 Nov 21-25ICT and Management: Marketing, Finance and Staff Evaluation

Recommended Completion of Portfolio Entry #3

12Nov 28-Dec 2

Etiquette and Cyber Ethics

13 Dec 5-9 Emerging Technologies E-Portfolios Due (35%)

14 Dec 12-16 Last Week of ClassesTest #3: Cyber Ethics and Emerging ICT

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Connectivism in Action: PhotosynthHow does Photosynth embody the four essential elements of a network (Found in the article: Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge)

1. Context (Group 1)2. Salience (Group 2)3. Emergence (Group 3)4. Memory (Group 4)

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QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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Learning Networks and Connective KnowledgeBased on a model of Distributive knowledge

The the idea that knowledge is not located in any given place and therefore cannot be transferred or transacted by consists of a network of connections formed by experience and interactions with the knowing community.

Requires varying levels of engagement:Individual to content, Individual to individual, Individual to Interface,

Individual to self

Understand that Knowledge is:Sub-symbolic, Distributed, Interconnected, Personal & Emergent

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Knowledge Community: Characteristics Focused on problems, not topics: knowledge is advanced through discussion and argumentation in

the effort to understand concepts and resolve discrepancies.

Decentralized, open knowledge building, with a focus on collective knowledge: through constructive social interactions with others engaged in similar or related problems.

More knowledgeable members are engaged in the knowledge-building process, but do not delineate the limits of investigation.

Less knowledgeable members' participation is valued as it determines the gaps, inadequacies, difficulties in the knowledge being created that can demand a clarification of ideas by the 'experts'.

Engages a broader knowledge community than that involved in the current local problem, bringing in views from the outside.

Makes for a "second order environment" (one where the one's adaption to the environment changes the environment itself) where

one's contributions can determine what contributions will follow, thus changing the direction of the discourse and the knowledge constructed.

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Knowledge in a Knowledge Community?

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Is knowledge a tree or a pile of leaves?

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Why Knowledge Community?

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How does Ken Robinson’s message explain how Wiki’s support knowledge building?

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Review

What is TPACK? Why is it relevant?

What are the principles of Connectivism? Why is connectivism a learning theory for the Digital Age?

What are the characteristics of a Learning Network? How does it support knowledge communities? Identify one example of a learning network

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(HINT: Use notes posted in Google Docs)

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Knowledge Community = Concept

Wiki = Technology

Attention

Space Identity

Always onAlways on

Constant-partialConstant-partialVariableVariable

InteractionInteraction

FragmentedFragmented

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Our knowledge Community: Course WikiHow to find information (navigation)

Create a page (content creation)

Hyperlink (integration)

Commenting (Communication)

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Wiki’s: Exploring our Wiki

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Is wikipedia a knowledge community?

What makes the information on a wiki reliable and relevant?

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Tech of the Week: WordPress Cont’dWordPress:

Uploading images, files, videosWidgetsCreating categories

How to create a contact forum

Informal Referencing: Adding hyperlinks to a posting

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Next Class:Read the Goyne et al 2000 article

Post the link to your blog on the FALL 2011 E-Portfolio page (on course WIKI)

Start to search for a WEB BASED application for children.

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