This paper examines information search behavior (ISB) by students in fragile and conflict-affected contexts (FCACs). The results show that they use the methodology commonly described in connectivism (aggregate - remix - repurpose - feed forward) but also observes that participants for the most part merely copied and pasted images and text into their own context with no real appreciation of what it actually said. Interesting, Alaa AlDahdouh writes "Overall, these cases present evidence in support of the connectivist proposal that students need to be confronted by unsolved and real life problems." True, but the paper as a whole raises interesting questions about the relation between the learner and the content they're working with, and makes clear to me at least that we need to be more precise about what it means to remix and repurpose, what would motivate people to do this, and what sort of sills they need to be able to benefit from this activity.
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