In reading Stephen Downes lastest post on “Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge” I was inspired to try and represent the concepts visually. This is what I’ve come up with (also available here).
It’s likely this will change over time – as will this post – but here’s where I’m at currently
NB: Quotes in mindmap adapted from Downes’ blog entry.
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Dear Mike,
Thanks for this great map. I’m having a hard time to keep up with the course as I just started moderated an online session for educators myself and they need A LOT of support in the beginning. So, your maps have helped me to grasp a bit of connectivism and it shows in practical ways how I can take advantage of one node of this network!
Hi Carla,
I’m glad to hear that my little maps have been useful. Despite the idea of concept maps and mind maps really NOT appealing to me initially I’ve started to find them particularly helpful in working through more complex trains of thought.
This week in particular (Week 2) I’m having a tremendous amount of trouble actually, and have found several of the readings (which interestingly have been taken off the wiki) really hard to grasp. In two cases I’ve read and re-read the same sections over and over and things STILL aren’t making sense to me.
I think I’ll be turning to the blogs of others in the hopes of connecting with others interpretations. Perhaps then I’ll start to have the ah-ha moment about what they mean
Cheers,
Mike
Great map, Mike!
I appreciate its small size and its clarity. Sometimes happened to see very large and complex maps that, IMHO, are useless.
Unfortunately, I’m not a “mapping man”, so for the moment I’m only enjoying the mates’ ones