Is Connectivism A Better Approach To Digital Age?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201212.033How to use a DOI?

Keywords

connectivism, digital native, learning process, community, implication

Abstract

We are facing an era in which children - through their new skills accumulated very early - dictate the way of learning, in which the digital world has become a natural learning space. This new universe is, however, barely touched by the concerns of the education system. The interaction with the new technology allows the child to acquire knowledge autonomously, but also to control the learning process. Education is not imposed from the outside, but engages students in the relationship with technology. Understanding this relationship is what should determine the practices of the education system. The role of today’s educational institutions is to submit to an introspective questionnaire. Internet access has become fast and so a large number of people who use high speed internet have an increasing rate of information acquisition. In addition, there is now the possibility of creating blogs, wikis, exchanging programs, forums and various tools to facilitate learning and teaching. Social networks are spreading rapidly, and these facilities allow the development of collaborative content. This flow of information that adapts to technological changes is not possible for the school curriculum, as curricula need constant updating in parallel with new changes.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alina Sîrghea
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - Is Connectivism A Better Approach To Digital Age?
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Digital Age: Traditions, Modernity and Innovations (ICDATMI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 151
EP  - 155
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201212.033
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201212.033
ID  - Sîrghea2020
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