Is SACSA dead?
Does this set the cat amongst the pigeons and challenge the foundations/usefulness of SACSA and constructivism as the dominant learning theory for educating our students?
It certainly makes the point that the process for acquiring and using information is more important than the knowledge itself. The rate at which information is generated in our world is increasing exponentially. The time frame within which a specific piece of information is useful is decreasing.
Constructivist theory talks primarily about how we make sense of knowledge and internalise it for ourselves. It is talking about long term acquisition of knoweldge. Connectivism is more to do with access and use of information and less to do with retention. Get it, make sense of it, use it and move on - why retain it for any longer that you need it?
http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
It certainly makes the point that the process for acquiring and using information is more important than the knowledge itself. The rate at which information is generated in our world is increasing exponentially. The time frame within which a specific piece of information is useful is decreasing.
Constructivist theory talks primarily about how we make sense of knowledge and internalise it for ourselves. It is talking about long term acquisition of knoweldge. Connectivism is more to do with access and use of information and less to do with retention. Get it, make sense of it, use it and move on - why retain it for any longer that you need it?
http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
posted by Wara @ 11:41 am
1 Comments:
At 10:38 pm,
Bill Kerr said…
Hi Jackie, Wara,
One thought I've had about SACSA is that its whole design contradicts constructivism because SACSA is a thing from "outside" (the Department) being imposed on teachers. So I find it ironic really that now a new theory has come along which says that these things from "outside" do in fact constitute real learning.
Nevertheless, I keep on thinking about this paper because with the growth of the Web with all the connections, that does put more emphasis on the ability to quickly know how to find the bit of knowledge that we want. People who are plugged and are Web savvy know more than those who aren't, other things being equal. So, I reckon being connected does count for something and I think it might be a big something.
Also there might be a difference between the top down down SACSA model and the Web model, which is lateral, not hierarchical.
Still thinking about that paper - thanks for the link Wara.
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