The purpose of first study is to explore a new paradigm of social studies teaching and learning through Connectivism. From the philosophical standpoint of science, rationalism and paradigm theory develop contradictory logic about knowledge. However, t ...
The purpose of first study is to explore a new paradigm of social studies teaching and learning through Connectivism. From the philosophical standpoint of science, rationalism and paradigm theory develop contradictory logic about knowledge. However, they share the view that derived knowledge has both tentative and contextual. It can be seen that knowledge is understood as being connected with the context of context rather than being finalized and formalized. Siemens (2006) defined the knowledge that new meaning is generated through connection in various contexts as connective knowledge. He regarded the process of constructing connection knowledge as learning.
When learning is defined as a linking process, the new direction of social studies teaching learning can be presented as follows.
First, in social studies education, the core of learning activities is linking activities, and social studies teaching and learning should pay attention to enhancing learner 's connection ability. Learners should be able to connect various information and knowledge, and to construct and clarify their own positions by creating or giving the meaning of such connections.
Second, we need an open textbook. The knowledge contained in textbooks has the character of Hard Knowledge which is based on a specific context or which forces de-contextual learning. This is not effective in forming contextual linking knowledge. Therefore, we need to design creative teaching and learning that can connect the knowledge of textbooks presented in a simple and systematic manner to various problem situations and knowledge and construct the connected knowledge.
Third, the learner should provide an opportunity to analyze the attributes of the connection in the course of knowledge connection. In the process of linking knowledge, there is a need for learning activities that analyze the meaning of a connection, such as lead to, type, part, or characteristics. This allows learners to clarify their positions.
The purpose of second study is to derive an effective teaching strategy for cultivating knowledge-information connection competency in social studies class based on the logic of connectivism that interprets learning as connection process.
In this theoretical study, representations, connections, and attributes of connections implied in the context were derived as principles of based instructional design. Based on this, we analyzed learning outcomes from the viewpoint of (1) node representation (type, meaning), (2) node presentation method, (3) connection knowledge creation, and (4) time offering.
Results of this analysis are as follows.
First, it is necessary to provide a variety of text and graphical representations along with intuitive image data to help learners fully understand representations.
Second, it is important to avoid presenting methods of nodes in a sequential manner. It is desirable to present non-sequential representations so that structured knowledge can be formed in complex situations.
Third, didactical transposition of nodes is required by learners' level of learning and cognitive development.
Fourth, sufficient learning time and step-by-step learning should be encouraged.