Frances Bell’s Blog

Here is a reworked version of my conclusions from a paper on connectivism that I recently submitted to a conference.  I can’t publish whole paper prior to review and (hopefully) publication at web site but I would be interested in comments on my findings.  Related work is under CCK08 category on this blog.
Cormier   identified as [...]

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This story of a school library dispensing with the fiction librarian post filled me with sadness.  The reason given was  ‘a move towards the relocation and redistribution of non-fiction and fiction resources in the light of the new developments in a virtual-learning environment and interactive learning’.  The thought that budget was being diverted to the [...]

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How can education change in a connected world?
This blog post was in answer to a question on the CCK08 forum, but I enjoyed writing it so much, I thought that I would post it here as well.
Illich identified three purposes of a good education system:

“it should provide all who want to learn with access [...]

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Stephen Downes posted a reply to my blog post http://francesbell.com/2008/11/09/cck08-is-connectivism-a-learning-network/ at http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44375.  I tried to reply there but my comment was not accepted so I am posting it here, hoping it gets picked up automatically.
I was very grateful for Stephen’s comments, as there is plenty still be ironed out (from my persective at least).  I [...]

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CCK08
Connectivism is presented as a theory of learning for the network age, where learning is something that takes place within networks of humans and non-humans, including objects, and connections mediated by digital networks and devices. The growth of the Internet, connected digital media are seen as the backdrop for the development of a new theory [...]

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