The Art & Technique of
Personal Learning Networks
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"A Gardener's Approach to Learning"
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As we work in a time of rapid change, with students who are digital natives, from within a dramatically new information landscape, the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner. Participants in this presentation will learn how to utilize a variety of new web-based applications to construct and cultivate personal learning networks. Educators will learn to attract information from other professional educators, experts in the fields of study, current news and news searches, student perspective, relevant resources from a growing library of web-based digital content, and other content sources to assist them in adapting to this age of change.
In a way, what we're talking about is a gardener's approach to learning, where you are working, rather than a small ecosystem in your back yard, we are working an information ecosystem, learning how its elements interrelate and arranging new relations to create an environment, a network, that produces what we need to know to do what we need to do. You can read more about this approact in 2¢s; worth [ link].
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Nothing New
There is nothing new about personal learning networks. They are the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers who work in your school, your instructional supervisor, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the high school, which whom you are friends, the magazines you subscribe to, books you brought home from college, etc.
Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours.
Origins of the Concept
In March (2009), Darcey Moore posted this article about the origins of the term Personal Learning Networks, which seems to have drived from Personal Learning Evironments. He links to blog entries by myself, George Seimens, and Stephen Downes (such up-rising company). Here is the opening.
Last year I started asking around, on Twitter, for the origin of the acronyms that I was reading so much about. ‘Personal Learning Networks’ ( PLNs) and ‘Personal Learning Environments’ ( PLEs) were so often used by the educators that I was following that it was surprising no-one really could source them.
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Aspects of PLN Planned for this Presentation or Workshop
- Conversation Connectors -- These are avenues (or tools) that connect us to the people and sources that help us do our jobs. They can include:
- blogs
- wikis
- Microblogging
- Social Networks (Facebook, Elgg, Nings)
- Virtual Worlds
- Mining the Conversation -- These are strategies and tools for searching the blogosphere and twittervers, and other realms of fluid conversation, looking for content and especially for people and sources that we can connect to for more constant info. The tools are numerous, but chief among them are:
- Technorati & Google Blog Search for searching the blogosphere
- Twitter Search for searching the twitterverse
- Delicious, a social bookmarking service can also be searched
- YouTube, Flickr, and other social media sites can be searched
- Even News Searches
- Another part of "Mining the Conversation" is the ability to make "sticky" the content and people we identify. Using RSS, we can connect to those people and sources in a way that they ideas continue to flow to us.
- Mapping the Conversation -- much is this is eye candy, but it is increasingly important that as the networks grow, and especially as the content grows, we will need new ways of viewing all of the information. Data visualization, one of the most fascinating aspects of the digital realm today, provides us with useful and interesting ways to see our information landscape.
For more information on these aspects, refer to the Concept Map
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- 2¢ Worth » Looking for My Personal Learning Library
We are all building our personal learning libraries. They include our bookmarks (local and/or social), our blogs, our RSS feeds, the Twitter hash tags we follow, etc. But what Hatherley is accomplishing is something that hadn't even reached my dreams yet — a ... Pearltrees is a collaborative network that let users create, enrich and share the world of their interests. We call it a human-powered interest network because its content is made and organized by its community. ...
- 2¢ Worth » A Few Shifts that I See Happening
... that I closed a webinar with last week. They are shifts that come largely from literacy in a new information landscape, maintaining a personal learning network, and paying more attention to our students 'native' information experiences. ... David Warlick posted the following on November 20, 2009 at 10:13 am. I agree that changing education is difficult. But identifying and “changing the directions of (our) goals” as you put it, seems a simple way to get started. ...
- Predictions Questions about the Next Decade
Personal Learning Networks (PLN) will not get easier to explain. We will see some form of augmented reality in the exhibit hall at ISTE 2010, so watch where you point your 3G iPhone. Increased acceptance of social networking ...
- 21st Century Learner in Loveland
I will also be talking about Personal Learning Networks, where educators are utilizing these new literacy skills to cultivate networks of dynamic knowledge and knowledge generators in order to continue learning. ...
- Community – Formerly Known as Audience
This network of ideas is one of my favorite aspects of personal learning networks. The people I am connected to are not part of my network because we look the same, speak the same native language, follow the same religous doctrine, ...
- 2¢ Worth
Perhaps most known for popularizing the term, Virtual Reality our paths intersected several years ago through Advanced Network and Services, where he was exploring potential VR applications of Interent 2 and I was working with ThinkQuest, ... On the 14th, I wrote a blog post (Applying PLN — a Continuing Question for Me), questioning some of my own assumptions about expecting educators to embrace learning practices — cultivating personal learning networks. ...
- High Techpectations: Illinois Computing Educators Conference Fast ...
Bloggers and Web 2.0 enthusiasts will be able to meet with colleagues in our Personal Learning Network Plaza for face to face networking. "We are especially pleased with the quality of this year's keynote speakers," says Conference Chair, ... Thursday's special ticketed luncheon event speaker will feature internationally known educational consultant and speaker, David Warlick. Spotlight speakers include Rushton Hurley, Carol Anne McGuire, Jerome Burg, Brent Coley, ...
- 2¢ Worth » Personal Learning Networks — The Beginning
Personal Learning Networks – The Beginning from David Warlick [...] Pingback from A Personal Learning Network needs a Personal Learning Environment « Mollybob Goes To School. [...] seems to me that a PLN is the network, made of up of ...
- you blog: david warlick keynote for e2t2
warlick - tell a story - a new story about teaching and learning - that shatters our old version, bring the students in on that... why you think it's important to be learning in digital environments - then get local tv to start showing it. ... his blog: 1st was personal newspaper, then personal library, then personal network the connectors the mining the mapping blogging is at the heart of my pln - i blog so i can learn blogging is easy - because it is entirely about the ...
- Building a Personal Learning Network: Twitter Style « The ...
Building a Personal Learning Network: Twitter Style. Here are five of the most helpful people I follow on Twitter who post exclusively or virtually exclusively about education: @web20classroom — Steven Anderson @classroomtools — Bill Chapman @dwarlick — David Warlick @matthewktabor — Matthew Tabor @teachpaperless — Shelly Blake-Plock. Who are your favorite educational Twitterers? Feel free to include yourself in the comments if you post exclusively (or almost exclusively) ...
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- Technology Vision Team » Reflections
... ZAP Reader · Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. animoto - the end of slideshows · DonorsChoose.org: An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need ...
- W200 Blog: Podcast Summary
The idea of a "Personal Learning Network" or PLN is the main way in which teachers achieve this connectedness. A PLN is a sort of community that can be achieved through the use of technology. Teachers can share their thoughts and ideas ...
- PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK « FOREIGN LANGUAGES
PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK. February 6, 2010 by Aina Carreras. A site with interesting reflections on 21st century situation on Education. ... Recent Posts. PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK · ENGLISH FOR KIDS · CHILDREN STORYBOOKS ONLINE ...
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