Who professes to know everything anyway! I think the journey to knowledge is just as important as the knowledge accumulated and stored at the end of that journey. I think G. Siemens is not that wrong in suggesting that in this day and age students do need to be able to continually draw on outside banks of knowledge to complete tasks. Hasn’t this always been the way though? A students research assignment is an accumulation of gathered data, from different sources, to support and extend on what they original understand about the content or issue researched. Don’t we still rely on some form of phone book or street mapping reference to get to or contact others? The internet is new, fast, technology replacing maps, dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Taking this into consideration the pipeline and its connections are very relevant but without core or basic knowledge of essential learnings or what’s in the pipeline, information will make little sense and be forgotten quickly with little relevance to the learner.
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