Comments on: Trying to visualize Networks http://gminks.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/trying-to-visualize-networks/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Catherine Fitzpatrick http://gminks.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/trying-to-visualize-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Catherine Fitzpatrick Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:07:42 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=84#comment-102 I've yet to see any professor, guru, or diligent student in the Connectivism cloud talk about "filters," or the need for them. Sounds like that might be antithetical to Connectivism, even though of course, they put in filters constantly, not always consciously. I'd also invite you to consider what has been said in other threads, and not only by me, about these models of the brain, or models of computers, being applied then to social or educational theory. How to justify the metaphorical jump? In another era, the brain was a machine, and hydraulic metaphors applied; in a still earlier one, the brain was a chakra with energy or a centre or a place of humours -- isn't every age going to conceive its metaphors? And is it rational to extrapolate an entire theory of knowledge and then education from the metaphorical jump? I’ve yet to see any professor, guru, or diligent student in the Connectivism cloud talk about “filters,” or the need for them. Sounds like that might be antithetical to Connectivism, even though of course, they put in filters constantly, not always consciously.

I’d also invite you to consider what has been said in other threads, and not only by me, about these models of the brain, or models of computers, being applied then to social or educational theory. How to justify the metaphorical jump? In another era, the brain was a machine, and hydraulic metaphors applied; in a still earlier one, the brain was a chakra with energy or a centre or a place of humours — isn’t every age going to conceive its metaphors? And is it rational to extrapolate an entire theory of knowledge and then education from the metaphorical jump?

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