logging it all here for future reference and continued learning - social learning in my thinking just now
trying to wrap my head around the verbiage...
we spend countless hours caught up in verbiage...
perhaps that's why the new standard is individualization...
would/could we ever have the same image in our heads for even just one word?
i don't think so.
i think that's why we form personal learning networks per passion... common images optimize rigor in learning.
anyway... on the term social....
The social element of learning occurs when I engage my network for feedback and understanding. via @gseimens
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Personal knowledge consists of neural connections, not social connections. Very important. The reason why this is important is because when we understand personal knowledge as neural connections, then personal knowledge does not consist of the artifacts that we use to describe social knowledge. The artifact that we use to describe social knowledge might be 'a sentence', "Paris is the capital of France." But personally, in our own mind, in our own neural network, it might look like that (see diagram). And this is not simply the representation "Paris is the capital of France," it's als
it appears to me that downes is describing social knowledge vs personal knowledge - (like nouns).. which i get.. but that personal knowledge.. came about in a social way (verb). seems to me that there is no value without an interaction, a relationship,... that learning is verb - and verb implies social...
i don't see learning as ever stopping...
outcomes are snippets of time... but then it's back at it.. (or did you ever leave... wasn't that just a photo taken... when it could/should have been video?) ...redefining, editing via some social aspect.
he writes:
So the key thing that I want to underline here, that makes my approach to education a bit distinct from other people's is that the product {noun} of the educational system is not a social outcome. And it's interesting because when you think about how people define what the objectives of an educational system ought to be, they are so often social and cultural objectives. "We want everyone to know our underlying social values, we want everyone to know mathematics, we want everyone to be able to take part in the creation of a jumbo jet that flies from New York to Buenos Aires." They're all socially defined.
But learning is in fact a personal outcome, not a social outcome. It (defining learning as a social outcome) is like having the picture of Richard Nixon tell the pixels what they ought to be.
i agree that we shouldn't define other's social outcomes... but could those outcomes even come - without social interaction? not a prescribed social interaction... a connectivist interaction for sure... but social either way... i don't know... who has learned anything truly on their own? and then after learning...who doesn't share...
i know i'm grappling with giants here. i can do that... safely on my blog...
and that's a good example.. on my blog... i appear to be alone - but when i study and read and write - literally - all alone in my room - this feels quite social. i would not have any of this personal construct in my head without others' insight.
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