Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged George-Siemens
Pedagogy defines School 2.0 (revisited)
Jul 13th
I was reading Will’s post today It’s Not Just the “Read/Write” Web and then thanks to twitter John Pederson’s post on Networks (I think that’s what it’s on anyway).
As I read I started thinking about a post I did back in January on defining School 2.0.
Not sure if it’s OK to quote yourself but back then I wrote:
School 2.0 although driven to change by the advancement of technology is not about technology, it’s about the advancement of society, of our culture as a world. Technology played a large part, but it is society that has changed. Everything from out-sourcing work to Asia, to More >
Back from Digital Darkness
Apr 30th
I’m returning this morning from my week of digital darkness. Although not complete darkness, enough so that the time away allowed me to refocus on what is important in life. My wife and I played Gin Rummy last night. The first time we’ve played in a really long time…it was nice.
I’ve been disconnected before. Usually when on vacation and traveling both of which are usually not voluntary. This was the first time that it was truly voluntary for me to give up being connected outside of the school day. After 3:00 I didn’t touch a computer….difficult indeed. I even managed More >
Offloading Knowledge
Dec 7th
As I’ve been reading the book Knowing Knowledge the concept that George Siemens presents of offloading content and information into the network is finding a place with me.
I’ve been thinking about this for days now and how my netvibes page has become my network of information. No longer do I have to learn something just in case, but instead the skill of being able to find information when I need it is what I need to learn how to do.
Today was a great example. I’m getting a teacher all excited about creating digital stories. We were talking about me coming into More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 31-40
Dec 6th
You can find the other posts here and here.
From the book Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens the things I’ve highlighted.
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known. p. 31
Learning and knowing are constant, on going processes (not end states or products). p. 31
A constructivist view of learning, for example, suggests that we process, interpret, and derive personal meaning from different information formats. What happens, however, when knowledge is more of a deluge than a trickle? What happens when knowledge flows too fast for processing or interpreting? p. 33
A network model of learning (an attribute of connectivism) offloads some of More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 21-30
Nov 28th
OK, my second round of highlights from George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge. You can find the first round here.
What skills and processes do we need to work with soft knowledge? We have spent our history with hard/codified knowledge as a product. We now need to learn to work with soft knowledge as a process.-p 22
We can no longer rely on categorization to meet our needs in a rapidly evolving, global knowledge climate. We must rely on network-formation and development of knowledge ecologies. We must become different people with different habits. -p 23
Learning is more than knowledge acquisition. Often it is More >
