A Learner is Like a....

SPONGE!! When I was looking through those videos and reading George Seimens Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age I thought a sponge; because in this digital age students absorb so much information with each other through networking.  A learner is open to adapt and evolve and continually learn new information every day. In this digital age a learner is forming new networks through their, work, school, and social sites that allow them to interact with people all over the world.  Network is the new form of gaining new knowledge!

In George Seimens Connectivism: A Learning Theory  for the Digital Age He explores the idea of connectivism as learning elements that aren't entirely based on individual learning. But explains that it is an outside of ourselves learning experience; and that "the connections that enable us  to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing" As information changes everyday, we must change our ways of learning and skill in order to keep up with the world. I think its important for students and teachers alike to take advantage of all the opportunities technology has to offer to us. If teacher's don't keep up with the learning styles of students and their world of technology then they would not only be letting students down but themselves as well. It poses as a great learning experience for anyone who is willing to come up with creative ways of learning and for those who aren't so great with technology social networking is a great start to being able to put themselves out there and learn something new every day.

I think Seimens sums it all up very well in The Network is the Learning when he says that "What we know today is not as important as our ability to stay current, so if what I know today is going to change; because knowledge changes rapidly, if I'm not continually learning I' becoming obsolete in my particular field or particular knowledge space." This is why learners are like sponges they're constantly learning, reworking, and creating ideas and absorbing other's learner's ideas and experiencing it for themselves. A Learner can now go on the internet search Google, Wikipedia,etc. and find out anything they'd like to learn any time and any where. And interacting and the sharing of information through social networks has become that much more important for us.