TEDxNYED - George Siemens - 03/06/10

George Siemens is Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution. He recently authored a book - Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. He is actively involved in researching social media and networked technologies at the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (tekri.athabasc...) at Athabasca University (www.athabascau.ca/)
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[@terridennis9185]

Great talk. Thanks, Tedx!

[@ahmed_shawa]

11:11 "The act of showing others how we're learning is an instructional task" ... i think very true..

[@lucillepotts7976]

Its interesting that there are all of these /new/ theories that are just harkening back to our innate need as humans to be connected to each other, local community and the earth at large. Technology will do great things to help us here if we learn to use it wisely!

[@DougNjaa]

I fully agree with point about sharing what we are learning about in an open, transparent means, makes us teachers!

[@ahmed_shawa]

Ideas I picked from this talk: collapsing to connections, science: drawing appropriate connections (cause / effect?), SNS's play a possible role in binding back of information to our social (roots), networks afford distributed cognition and hence more capable of addressing challenging problems, MOOC's, desired coherent narrative of a traditional classroom environment might be fragmented (compromised) in an alternative media environment, "how do you create a centralized outcome through a decentralized distributed process".

[@panimeda245]

Well said if educational systems think like corporates, we are failing and we will fail!

[@nunzioforpresident]

I don't understand what does he means by "media fragments understanding".

[@cristinapinheiro3495]

Thank you, for sharing your origins.

[@ljaguasvivas5478]

Tiene una opción donde dice CC que puedes ponerlo en Español los subtitulos.

[@cela54]

Nicely, done George. I enjoyed that quite a bit and will pass it on to my students.

[@dextergavin6950]

Sorry to be off topic but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me.

[@antoniorhys261]

@Dexter Gavin instablaster ;)

[@dextergavin6950]

@Antonio Rhys Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@MiPolgar]

Connected learners create communities; communities sometimes fragment and other times work together. I am concerned that virtual communities are at (many?) times connected only electronically and not always in other ways, fragmenting easily. How do educational communities create connections without simply creating too many electronic representations of our connections?

[@maryanneburgos]

I'd love to know more about George's background and early schooling. Was Spanish his L1? Were his parents Mexican? Why did he end up in Canada? Is he bilingual?

[@alejandroyongenriquez5307]

Ok. Gracias Luis José.

[@valdecirodriguesmartins8698]

Não sei falar inglês, por isso não entendo. Deveria ter legenda em português

[@Julesandrebrown]

Wow ! He's really bright, I just wish he used less big words - and more....... common language. Best,

[@martarure]

Alguien podrá traducirlo al español????

[@MandN2009]

Connectivism unveiled! (gr8t story, and last five minutes is a fine wrap-up!) Why do we have four seasons?

[@phillipwilliamnewton193]

The earth wobbles on its axis, meaning the north and southern hemispheres move slightly nearer and then further away from the sun as they rotate around the sun.

[@MandN2009]

@MandN2009 here's why we have four... 23.5degree axis!

[@eleoyepez]

Quien puede traducirlo :-( al español

[@brianbecsi7482]

2010??? Prescient.

[@fadelalhussaini3098]

Is what I think that this guy wants the students to be authors and publishers!!??? That focus on electronic publishing