Learning has certainly changed from years past. As the article says, “The life of knowledge was measured in decades.” I can remember when a student went to college, received a degree, and stayed in a profession for the rest of that individual’s life. I think some of the younger students in class can remember some of their grandparents working in the same profession for years. Many times that person worked for the same corporation for a lifetime. With the rapid growth of technology, knowledge is now calculated in years and even months. Many people change careers and do not work for the same company their entire lifetimes. The article states that many learners shift to dissimilar “unrelated fields” over the span of their life span. With the rapid change of technology, decisions and priorities may need to be changed. Connectivism looks at the tools that are needed in the future as more important than skills currently owned. The author, George Siemens feels the field of education has been slow to recognize the effect of learning new tools.
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