I did not proceed to our first assisgment last week, so I have to continue in this theme. Developmental psychology is my nearest subject and I prefer experiental learning theory – it deals with the whole person (emotions, cognitions, experiences, even unconscious events in th mind).
A year ago Stephens Downes had a video lecture to Kuopio SMOOT (Social Media and so on) and I liked his concept “free learning” and his slide about individual’s choice- indentity and creativity. I made a model today that reminds SD model very much. I have to begin from individual learning. Here you can see my model:
(Edublogs seems to work very nicely today, the picture came at once.) I know that situations are very complicated when people work together. So the model must be developed further – but I have time.
Choice -identity- creativity are my first concepts and perhaps empowerment tells that all? We are having a world-wide-participants-empowerment during this Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course…
[...] and education and so on. Freedom to choose , to empower myself is important. I said this at the beginning of this blog . Empowerment needs knowledge about history, sciences, it is connected to civilization. I speak [...]