As an related aside and footnote to the video, I'm taking—and will be blogging here and elsewhere—about a course (see below) that applies this theory to learning and education. The New Unionism Network has published articles applying it to organizing labor—more rhizomatic connections and without even getting into ubiquitous social media—also not trees or hierarchies but networks.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Habits of the Effectively Connected
…on #socialmedia & other online distributed networks, whether for learning, distributing information, making connections, organizing, communicating or just social sharing.
Working and learning in an online environment is fundamentally different from working and learning in a physical environment. It becomes much more important to make connections and leverage the store of knowledge at your disposal. Relations between people depend more on cooperation and less on collaboration. Information that was valuable only when withheld is now valuable only when shared. Marketing gives way to meaning. In this presentation, Stephen Downes reviews the habits he has cultivated to thrive as a learner and researcher online, providing practical advice from network theory and a lifetime of experience.
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