In a previous activity, I outlined a Digital skills course that was aimed at mature students.
This activity is to develop this course further by taking a ‘connectivist’ approach.
Some of the key principles in a connectivist approach include:
- Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
- Learning is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources.
- Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
- Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known.
- Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
- Ability to see connections between fields, ideas and concepts is a core skill.
- Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
I couldn’t use all of them in my recast course that I did in Activity 8, which was baisc digital skills for seniors. Here is the ammended version. I could not see how to incorporate any connectivist attirbutes in my ‘learn Netiquette’ week 3 section, so it’s blank.
