EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
From EDUCAUSE REVIEW | September/October 2005, Volume 40, Number 5:
Is covering content enough? Content-focused learning has a relatively short half-life, particularly since most learners’ careers will span a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime. “Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).”
I love this quote (originally from George Siemens) we were just talking about this idea in our web design class the other day. I’ve been trying not to give “the right answer” lately in class but instead get students thinking about where they can find the answer themselves…
In my typically stimulating fashion, I asked one student the other day “So how can we find out how to do it?”… and he replied with a grin: “we can ask you”.
Leigh Blackall Said,
September 17, 2005 @ 3:52 pm
AN interesting response (I can just ask you). Is that Seimens connectivism in action? When I need to know something about tax I ask my accountant - is that connectivism in action? same for my car, plumbing, everything really. So what is connectivism?