How has your network changed the way you learn? My network has changed the way I learn by opening up many more portals of learning that were not available to me when I original went to college. Back then I had to get my knowledge from the textbooks and the teacher and had little opportunity to “think for myself”.
Since the internet and other digital media has been created, the opportunity for learning and learners has increased tenfold. The simple use of a search engine on a topic of interest produces instant results numbering in the thousands or more. There isn’t anything one cannot not learn about by spending a few minutes reading off the search engine and then going to the many references available.
If I need to find out something I usually go to Google or Yahoo and run a search and then I move through some of the articles or references available there to see if they are giving me what I need. If not some of those references lead to other and I will try them. This is something that can be long and tedious in a regular library setting.
Additionally I work with academic’s and often time I will sit with a co-worker and ask their feelings or opinions about a subject to better align my own thoughts to the topic.
In Connectivism the major factors that influence learning are:
· Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
· Learning is a process of connecting specialized 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.
Based on these principles my own learning network fully supports the central trends of the Connective Learning theory. While during our study of the different learning theories I agreed that most styles of learning are a blend of several theories, I find that my own personal style is predominately connectivism.
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