I was perceiving in my PERSONAL LEARNING NODES #5 that ...my main goal re. connectivism after the #cck08 course will be ..to share the experience, understanding and feeling gained and learned during the course. Kind of let it go on, continue and expand - become a shared continuum.. As I'm a very goal oriented person - an that characteristic being the one I do not wish to unlearn ;) - I'm wondering, what do I want to achieve by acting and behaving in a connective way?!
I recall a text written by author and president Vaclav Havel - a different point of view, but somehow I see the volume of the need for change in learning and management currently required to equal what happens in a totalitarian society, before the end of the totalitarianism. Havel describes in a first issue of a newly established Czechoslovakian cultural magazine in 1985, what parallel culture means. “Parallel culture is nothing more and nothing less than a culture which for various reasons will not, cannot, or may not reach out to the public through the media which fall under state control. In a totalitarian state, this includes all publishing houses, presses, exhibition halls, theatres and concert halls, scholarly institutes, and so on. Such a culture, therefore, can make us only what is left – typewriters, private studios, apartments, barns, etc. Evidently the parallel nature of this culture is defined wholly externally and implies nothing directly about its quality, aesthetics, or eventual ideology. The counterpart in solving the conflict of parallel cultural conditions is not an alternative political idea but the autonomous, free humanity of man and with it necessarily also art – PRECISELY AS ART! – as one of the most important expressions of this autonomous humanity. Can we separate the awakening human soul from what it always is – an awakening human community?"
Connectivism is a tool for accomplishing the change. But - is there "a parallel culture" that may remain hidden by connectivism? Or does it exist yet / at all? What keeps it hidden? What encourages it to become visible?
My first concrete question along the path of beginning to find out what is "the parallel culture" at the age of connective learning is: What comes after web, learning, organization and networks 2.0? What if it's something totally different than all that 3.0?? And the second question, maybe: Is connectivism itself actually the parallel culture of the knowledge age??
The referred book: Havel, V. 1991. Six Asides About Culture in Wilson, P. (eds) Vaclav Havel. Open Letters. Selected Prose 1965-1990. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. My todays visualization:
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