By George Siemens
Social and Connected Learning George Siemens Presented to: Empire State College April 24, 2009 Cognitive Apprenticeship Distributed Cognition What is social learning? Learning through: Dialogue Interaction Engagement Vygotsky: Learning as social development Lave & Wenger: situated learning What happens in "social learning" that doesn't happen when learning alone?? Systemic impact... Novices & Experts What is known is less important than the capacity to know more Distributed intelligence "bring...tacit processes into the open, where students can observe, enact, and practice them with help from the teacher" (Collins, Brown, & Newman) Bandura: "reciprocal determinism" Pattern recognition Weekly Newsletter: www.elearnspace.org gsiemens@elearnspace.org What role does online learning play? How can learning technologies be effectively utilized to blend distributed intelligence with social learning theory? Learning networks serve to: Filter Wayfind Sensemake Provide for extended learning (beyond the course) Self-efficacy Personal agency Adapt & respond to complexity
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