CONNECTIVISM AND LEARNING

Deep Learning:

• Creating
• Remixing
• Repackaging
• Intrinsic interest in a subject
• Connectivist approach to reorganise and construct knowledge

Surface Learning:

• Regurgitating
• plagiarism
• Copying and pasting
• Rote learning in order to pass exams and assessments
• Sticking to required texts

NB- Students hate surface learning! They do not see the point to it. What they crave is direction and meaning. Drama students must be given projects which stimulate them and take them to a higher emotional, intellectual and spiritual plane!!

Connectivism: learning which occurs through networks of people and informational/knowledge sources such as the internet.

Web 2.0 is the prime goal of connectivism, where a collective database of resources is freely shared amongst members of the online community.

Connectivist learners must have a discernable eye for what is a genuine and informative resource due to the sheer volume and intellectual terrorism which can occur on the internet. They must also have a sense of themselves and what they wish to learn/remix otherwise information is just information and relational networks are defunct.

Through this new way of sharing and remixing knowledge, individuals/students can find their 'people' and the networks in which they exchange ideas.

This is the teaching theory of the new millenium and with good teaching practice it will see individual surface learning die out to be replaced by deep communal learning.