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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]