EL CONECTIVISMO COMO TEORÍA DE APRENDIZAJE EMERGENTE

Con Pavlov se da la entrada al conductismo realizando un experimento el cual consistía en entrenar a un perro para que al sonar la campana, el perro empezara a babear sabiendo que le iban a dar comida. Con Thorndike vemos la Teoría de Estimulo y Respuesta que es muy conocida ya, la cual se basaba en dar un estimulo bueno para que el sujeto del experimento hiciera una tarea ya dicha, luego continuamos con Wabson, Skinner y Piaget, los cuales ayudaron a reforzar mas estas teorías anteriores para el desarrollo pedagógico, todo esto impulsado en pro de un crecimiento social adecuado, cuyas teorías aun siguen siendo fuerte influencia y mas con Vygotsky con el coductismo social y se refuerza mas ya que en estos tiempos donde ellos empezaron con sus teorías el Marxismo era muy fuerte y esto dio a pie para dichas teorías. Después de ellos muy influenciados aparecen Noah Chomsky y Donald Broadbent los cuales deciden sacar publicaciones sobres sus estudios acerca del cognitivismo, y Ausubel desarrolla las ideas de aprendizaje significativo y tenemos a Bandura con el aprendizaje social que es muy importante dentro de estos aspectos cognitivistas.

Para entender los aportes del conectivismo al aprendizaje en red hay que partir de la premisa de la complejidad creciente del mundo. El conocimiento tiene en la actualidad el reto de enfrentar problemas complejos como la sobrepoblación del planeta, el calentamiento global, la rapidez del cambio y la incertidumbre con que este se produce. Si antes el suministro de información estaba concentrado en pocas manos, hoy cualquiera puede crear y emitir información a través de las redes. El conocimiento se encuentra disponible, cambia y crece exponencialmente en tiempos muy cortos. El aprendizaje adquiere un carácter más autónomo, pero, a la vez, aumenta su carácter social, por lo que resulta imposible para una persona aprender sola, se necesita de los demás.

El docente es el experto que guía al alumno, para lo que debe conocer las herramientas disponibles, utilizarlas y aprender a hacer que las TIC trabajen para facilitar su vida en el aula. Esto requiere de un aprendizaje continuo y un cambio en las prácticas educativas, lo cual es un gran desafío que, si se logra, permitirá al docente contribuir a formar competencias y estrategias en sus alumnos que los ayudarán a seguir aprendiendo el resto de sus vidas.

Para la apropiación óptima del conocimiento se requiere crear redes de aprendizaje concretas, teniendo en cuenta los objetivos de aprendizaje, las características de los participantes y las tecnologías disponibles. La concepción conectivista resulta valiosa a la hora de diseñar una propuesta sobre el aprendizaje en red, pero se requiere complementar con el aporte de otras teorías.
Las redes de aprendizaje en esta era digital tienen como propósito fundamental aglutinar a la mayor cantidad de personas que inicialmente tienen un objetivo particular que los motiva a aprender, pero que luego se transforma en un objetivo común a otras personas, de modo que se forman redes de intercambio constantemente de información y conocimiento, por medio de múltiples y variadas conexiones. 

SEVENTH TASK

ABOUT FAKE NEWS AND INFORMATION

The fake news have taken a great strength with the arrival of globalization. Any person with a  spirit of sabotage, simply diffuses a fact, exaggerating it, energizing the social networks, until it becomes viral and without any veracity.

Nowadays we find a lot of information about many topics, but is our responsibility understand what is good and what is bad for us and even have to teach our students to have that responsibility

To start teaching that responsibility, we have to take into account challenges that we can face, one of them can be the fake information that we can found. 

On the teacher's side, there is a lot that can be done in the classroom. Being a facilitator of learning, a guide for students, a person who directs them to their own knowledge with doubt and the desire to go further, is more important than a grade. The critical pedagogy addresses those issues, and according to one of its main promoters Paulo Freire, who posited that the most important thing is to give the individual the possibility of looking for what he really wants to know.

This is a survey about this important topic, is in Espanish but is related to the task:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qiAPRBe93pU4oWn5_dANDYBDhD_rvOoDIE0gxyzE26s/edit

TASK 6

DIRECTIONS: Write in your blog a critical commentary of the lecture "Where is the OUtrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxj87RRtsc ) by enhancing the way education is being shaped by larger corporate and market driven forces, the role of critical pedagogy in the traditional spheres of schooling and in contemporary politics, the educative nature of culture and politics, the role of teachers as public intellectuals, and pedagogy as a project of a substantive edmocracy and as a form of resistance and educated hope.


Henry Giroux’s lecture points out the larger corporate and market main forces now shaping all aspects of education, politics, culture, and everyday life in North America. 

Nowadays, the role of the teacher has to be crucial for the society, teachers have to teaches critical thinking, good pedagogy, values, etc. in order to have the freedom of doing correct things, because that is the need of education, and we have to take into account that the union between critical thinkers and good social citizens, is the combination that all world need.

One of the most important challenges that education currently has, is basically teaching how to think. Some teacher are focused just on sharing information without following some relevant processes that involve not only having as much knowledge as possible, but also knowing what to do with it. The fact of owning a car not only implies boasting of it, but being capable of handle it, which is similar to the thinking process. Henry Girous also points out how relevant being a learner while teaching is.

In conclusion we have to realize that education is the key for everything, and even though we are being trained to be under others thought, we have to raise our voice and take into account that aour thinking is a big explotion of knowledge, culture, pedagogy, among others

TASK 5: STEREOTYPES

Now a days people are categorizing colombian as a drog dealers or tiff, but not body see that mostly of colombian are hard workers, I mean of course that in our country are drog dealers and we figth with that every day since Pablo Escobar ages, and this man stain our reputation and the people whose make good for the country try to show our best qualities, another stereotype is that we are thieves, I mean everybody outside of Colombia think that, in fact we know some cases of colombian people robering in other countrys.

Emphasizing Colombia, we are well known for stereotypes such as drugs, weapons, in summary, Pablo Escobar; people around the world, have to realize that we also are sports, science, literature, among other things. People can not continue judging us, just for our past, now we are more than that and also, we can not get affect for these things that are said about us, we know what we are made of and that in most of the cases, we do things in correct way.

Stereotyping is just an attempt to link everyone’s characteristics which is impossible. Some people could fit on some stereotypes, nevertheless not everyone does. Coping with it only requires being brave enough and letting people know by your own actions the real person you are. Categorization is not always worth it, and humankind is dynamic, we are constantly changing that is why stereotypes lack of reliability and validity