Spider Web

The whole world seems to be a big chaos, in which all kinds of information connect and twist with each other like a huge mess.However,we human seem to be perfectly fine living in the overwhelming mess. Why? Because we have spider-web-like minds.

Our minds works in certain patterns.In other words, as I quote from What Is Connectivism,our mind is a patterning mind. No matter how messy and overwhelming the information is, our minds deal with with in patterns. The information will always be sorted. For example, when we saw kinds of fruit that we don't know, we will focus on the label that they are all fruit, and whether we can actually remember their names does not really matter, because we know they are fruit, and that is enough for most of the time.

It is because of the feature of connecting of the spider web, the spider can catch as many insect as possible.When an insect bumps into a tiny part of the web, the whole web will shake, thus the spider knows that it is time for food. The network we have built help us to learning more. According to Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age,Personal knowledge is comprised of a network, which feeds into organizations and institutions, which in turn feed back into the network, and then continue to provide learning to individual.That is to say, new knowledge is always connected to the old one.  

However, without the mucus, the web will lose its function. To learn knowledge, our minds need aids. And tools we have developed nowadays are the aids of learning.In addition, technology is altering (rewriting) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking.Our knowledge has helped us develop tools, at the same time tools have changed our ways to learn.For example, instead of doing homework by writing on paper like 10 years ago, we use computer and hand homework in online.