During this week I’ve enjoyed a lot the reading of Siemens’ Brief history of networked learning. Althought I couldn’t follow the hole discussion, my impression was that this week has been a quiet one, but was usefull to reflect about the concept itself in its evolution. At the end, I think, we all agree that networked learning was always there, althought we hadn’t the model to understand it.
In my view, thinking about networks is very usefull, but only when we think from a dynamic perspective. Last week (Week 3) we discussed with Valdis Krebs different models of networks (distributed, centralized, terrorist ;),…) but from a static perspective, and for me it wasn’t useful at all… Not everybody agreed with me, but everytime I think on it I imagine that it’s like taking a picture of a brain and try to find how does it work just with that picture. Useless at all for our purpose.
Networks are understable just if you think under a dynamic perspective. Information travels between (throught?) the nodes, and they are available, more receptives… or not depending of the circumstances. This way, the static network becames an unpredictable system (an unpredictable network), like this:
Yes, I know that this model becomes predictible in two minutes looking at it, but it was just an example: it’s a model of the Game of life, a cellular automator devised by Conway that works just with a few rules and that can show how patterns in networks are essentialy unpredictable in macroestructures (just a computer can predit what will be the position of the points in, for example, 1500 steps). If you want to experiment it by yourself just take a look at cellular automator (be careful… it’s addictive).
Now imagine the same but with people instead of those coloured points… Now the network is even more unpredictable, and even more alive that what it seems to be… And I think that that’s the model from where we can start understanding how does a network works, introducing in addition other phenomena like chaos, rizomatic structures, entropy, etc…
A little bit more in spanish here.
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Brilliant post, Anders.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to next post.
Did you read the write-up at all? CCK08: Week 4, or since when have we used networks for learning at Teach and innovate
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