Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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Knowing Knowledge Highlights 65-74
May 10th
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge:
Change is happening on two levels:
- …the context in which knowledge occurs, and
- …the flow and characteristics of knowledge itself. pg. 69
Our society is being restructured to align with knowledge. The barriers, inhibitors, obstacles, and unnecessary structures are giving away to models which permit effective knowledge creating, dissemination, communication, personalization, and flow. pg. 69
The fault of many schools, universities, and companies is the unwillingness to listen to the voices of those closest to change pressures and emerging methods. pg. 70
Who are these people…our students? Do we listen to them? Do we watch how they interact, how they More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 56-64
May 7th
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge:
Tools of individuality serve a greater good to society than tools of purely collective traits.pg 56
When we experience knowledge in application, we leave theoretical understanding of knowledge. pg. 56
Our desires and logic are shaped in an orchestra of context: acting and reacting, negotiating and dialoguing. pg. 61
We value what is different more than what is known…it pulls on logic towards not-logic directions. pg. 63
We are contextually holistic. pg. 63
We connect more than we construct. pg 63
The oppressed in the digital divide:
- Those without access to tools of global conversations.
- Those without skills to contribute to global conversations.
pg. 64
I More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 46-55
May 4th
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge:
Ultimately, whether online, face-to-face, or blended, learning and knowledge environments need to be democratic and diverse. A critical concept to keep in mind: The network and ecology must both be dynamic and capable of evolving, adapting, and responding to external change. pg. 47
Are our schools, and education in general, in a place that they can be seen as dynamic and capable of evolving? An interesting question. We were able to adapt and evolve to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) do to the pressures from the government. But if there was not money tied to the pressure More >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 41-45
May 3rd
During TV Turn Off week I was able to spend some quality time with Knowing Knowledge. The recent book by George Siemens.
Here are my highlights and thoughts:
Learning is mess and chaotic pg. 41
A great line that Brian Crosby from the Learning is Messy blog talks about constantly. Learning is messy, chaotic and spontaneous…that’s why I love it!
Too often, we bend our pedagogy to the tool. pg. 41
Determining the tool and approach…
- Intended outcome
- Nature of the learning task
- Match task with appropriate medium
- Consider profile and needs of learners
- Meta-learning elements required (are we trying to teach content or process?)
- Diverse tools/spaces/ecologies
pg. 41
I like this bulleted 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 >
Knowing Knowledge Highlights 1-20
Nov 20th
It just so happens my pre-bedtime blog run coincides with Clarence Fisher’s pre-breakfast blog run, once in awhile we catch each other on Skype for a little around the world chat. About a week ago or so Clarence mentioned George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge, which can be downloaded for free from the website. I downloaded it started reading is. Made it to the 3rd page and took it to our print center and had 5 copies made for my administrators.
Then yesterday while waiting for my wife at a Starbucks I started reading. Made it 3 pages again, and had to go More >
