3. Once upon a different world
The image of knowledge was
that it is an object that can be
conveyed or transmitted as
such like a object.
Commons.wikimedia.org: Scriptorium
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (Routledge 2012)
4. Once upon a different world
The image of knowledge was
that it is an object that can be
World has changed. conveyed or transmitted as
Knowing is not what it was. such like a object.
If it ever was like that
outside monastery schools.
Commons.wikimedia.org: Scriptorium
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (Routledge 2012)
5. Good teaching = more effective communication
In monastery schools one
didn’t negotiate meanings,
they were taken as facts.
Commons.wikimedia.org: Flammarion
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (Routledge 2012)
6. Good teaching = more effective communication
In monastery schools one
didn’t negotiate meanings,
they were taken as facts.
It was thought that
improving learning is a matter
of communicating those facts
more efficiently by improving
the clarity of the message.
Commons.wikimedia.org: Flammarion
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (Routledge 2012)
10. Social constructivism & sociocultural theories
Learning is a process of meaning making,
not of knowledge transmission
The very nature of the meaning making process
is social and dialogic
Meanings exist in our minds and between us
Knowledge and cognitive activity is distributed
among our culture and mediated by our tools
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (Routledge 2012)
11. Connectivism
Connectivism – The Networked Student
Watch on Youtube.com
12. Connectivism
• Learning theory/model by George Siemens
• Learning is primarily a network-forming process
• Learning happens as a part of diverse,
social network, which is augmented by
the modern digital technology
13. Connected learning
• is learner-centred
• is social and cultural activity
• forms networks and structures nodes
• has a lot in common with the
new communication technology and its use
15. Ubiquitous and converging
formal - nonformal - informal
physical - digital - augmented
local - global - virtual
work - study - leisure time
professional - societal - personal
25. >>> Deep learning
Authentic learning environments
Learner involvement
26. Concept of knowledge
• static
dynamic, creative
• authorized and abstract
democratic and practical
• objective and universal
relative and contextual
27. Changes in 4 domains of learning
• technological
• social
• epistemological
• cognitive
28. Further reading
Carl Bereiter
Education And Mind in the Knowledge Age (2002)
Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel
New Literacies (3rd edition, 2011)
what it means to think of (and create) literacies as social practices
Annemaree Lloyd & Sanna Talja (eds.)
Practising Information Literacy (2010)
read eg. A Lloyd, 'Lessons from the workplace: Understanding information literacy as practice’
David Jonassen & Susan Land (eds)
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments (2012)
read eg. C. Hoadley, 'What Is a Community Practice and How Can We Support It?'