Connectivism

Siemens (2005) states "Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organisation or a database), is focused on connecting specialised information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing."

Siemens certainly has a valid point as the acceleration in acquisition of knowledge occurs it will become more and more necessary to know how to find knowledge.

"The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital" Siemens (2005).
"Currency (accurate, up to date knowledge)"  Seimens (2005) is one of the key connectivist activities.

These are both important ideas and include the idea that decision making is also a learning process.  A correct decision today may not be a correct decision tomorrow with updated information.  As a weather forecaster, there is never a truer thought.  As new information (weather observations etc) is presented, every decision needs to be revisited and validated or updated to arrive at the current forecast.

So up to an extent I agree with Siemens but I think there needs to be allowance for the the other learning theories of behaviorism, cognitivism and contsructivism underpinning connectivism.

How can we use connectivism?  I am sure this is going on in every classroom most days by using the internet for research in a variety of contexts.  Another idea, expanding on the weather theme would be connecting to live databases for current and continually updating information.  For example, plotting the movement of a Tropical Cyclone or perhaps the current weather conditions around your region.