Connectivism is a learning theory for the digital age. Prior to technology's impact on the way people learn were three learning theories: behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. These theories have limitations; they do not address learning outside of people or describe how learning happens within organizations. Even after these three theories were revised several times for the new age, they still come up short. This is how the concept of connectivism blossomed.
Connectivism realizes that "action is often needed without personal learning - that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge."Recognizing and forming connections and patterns is how people learn in the new digital age and it "is driven by the understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations."
The quote: "The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe." concludes the concept of connectivism. Individuals must have the ability to constantly learn new things at a fast pace because new amounts of knowledge and technology are ocuring at such a fast pace, our minds must be two steps ahead at all times.
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I appreciate your description of how or why the learning theory of connectivism came into being. Until this class, I'd not realized just how much communication had changed over time (even since I was a child). Although I consider myself part of the dot bomb and digital age, I'd never really considered how learning had been effected by technology or that there might even be a need to update the theories and how people learn. The idea of a rapidly shifting base requiring reassessment of how people learn seems reasonable.
Thank you for wording this in a way that triggered my own internal reflection about how I learned and how thing *might* of changed since then because of technology.
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