How do we deal with KNOWLEDGE?

  Before the knowledge grew dramatically, people pursue their jobs after schooling. Also the field of knowledge was counted in a long periods. Now, knowledge evolves rapidly. Many new fields come out within few years or even few months. The recent learning trend is impressive to me. It mentions “Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime. Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same. ” I totally agree with this point in many aspects. First, gaining knowledge is accessible action with the Internet nowadays. It’s easy to be eliminated in the work places if one is not eager to refill him/herself more information and ability related to the career. Moreover, gaining knowledge is through the individual’s practical experience. By conducting more practice associated to the job, the individual can earn more to assist his or her job.

Behaviorism

• Observable behaviour is more important than understanding internal activities.
• Behaviour should be focused on simple elements: specific stimuli and responses.
• Learning is about behaviour change.

Cognitivism

·         Learning is the process of knowledge input.

• The input knowledge turns into short-term memory.
• The sort-term memory then goes into long-term recall

Constructivism

·         Learners chase to gain knowledge when they need to comprehend their experiences.

·         Learners pursue the knowledge by creating their own meaning.

·         The real-life learning is messy and complicated.

  According to the video, it asserts that the network itself is the learning. The way people connect to other people reflects the individuals’ capability to persist to leave in the same stage. People need to socialize themselves by chatting with the people around them or deploy private speech to communicate with the intimacy. Besides just talking to people around us, we can also apply the technology as the tool to keep in touch with others such as e-mail  or a phone call. The network people create around them including coworkers, family, friends or anyone as the members in the individual’s network. The value of the network makes the new information transmits easily in the network than the period without technology. Take Google reader as an example. People set up their specific reader network to gain new information form others which are in their network and the new piece of information spread in this network in a rapid speed making the new knowledge grow exponentially. I like this idea since I just started to employ the new tool such as blogger and Google reader recently.
Referneces:
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens)

The Network is the learning.