The Art & Technique of
Personal Learning Networks
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"A Gardener's Approach to Learning"
Introduction:
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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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This page will list weblogs that mention personal, learning, network, and warlick. If you will be blogging a review or simply sharing your insights about the ideas of this session, please include the words personal, learning, network and warlick in the text of the article.
- 2˘ Worth
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. ...
- Ewan McIntosh - 2˘ Worth
Twitter This. Usuario: Password: cargando... Blankinship, Donna Gordon. “Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality.” Seattle Times 19 Nov 2009: n. pag. Web. 20 Nov 2009. . [↩]. Filed under: education. David Warlick @ 10:50 am — Comments (22) .... 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. ...
- Grow Your Personal Learning Network
Warlick gives today's educators insight in keeping up with technology by creating their own Personal Learning Network (PLN). He writes that friends, families, and colleagues, all who are relied on so many resources and professional ...
- ITEC 2009 - PLN: A gardener's approach to professional learning ...
David Warlick is a wonderful speaker and an even more wonderful person. I was very fortunate to spend some time with him last night and this morning. I have very much enjoyed being a learner in his presence. ... Blogging is about listening as much as it is about writing; David is talking about who he reads (for example, Stephen Downes serves as a filter for David); PLN = personal learning network; There's nothing new about PLNs; they existed long before the Internet; ...
- Archipelago: Giving Thanks - My PLN
As we approach Thanksgiving, I have to give thanks to my PLN (Personal Learning Network). I should write about the AASL conference, and what I learned and thought about, and I will soon, but today I have my PLN on my mind. ... David Warlick was presenting at a Linworth webinar about PLNs (he posted his notes about the webinar and handouts), and how to help teachers and co-workers develop them. Although I feel I have a strong PLN already (thanks!), Mr. Warlick today gave ...
- 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 ...
- 2˘ Worth
Of course you'd have to examine much more data on the usage of this student-ready network to draw any hard conclusions. But I get the feeling that, given access, most learners will find a way to jack in. Many of them were on Facebook, I'm sure. ..... I often write about the need for a new type of textbook, one that is digital, interactive, social, open, and a product that actually results from student learning as much as student learning results from the product. ...
- Exploring Twitter
This was my own personal learning network (PLN). David Warlick writes, “PLNs open doors to sources of information that were not even available a few years ago, and continually evolving technologies are making it easier to capture and ...
- 2˘ Worth
describes a book by Temple University professor, Bryant Simon.1 (Wonder if I'd sell more books if they were authored by Warlick David?) The book, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, seems to be saying that you won't learn about America in a Starbucks, .... This involves placing the personal, or laboratory, notebook of the researcher online along with all raw and processed data, and any associated material, as this material is generated. ...
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All Recent Blogs that mention Personal Learning Network
- marissa washington's EDM310 Blog: Personal Learning Network
I started my personal learning network as a coach, which I teach young girls the skills of volleyball. Being a coach has introduced me to alot of great people. Since I want to be a physical education teacher, these people are great to ...
- Steven's PLN: Edublog Awards
The Personal Learning Network of a teacher in Quebec. Home · Post RSS · Comments RSS; Edit. Favourites. Education Site Of The Day. Twitter. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed. Feedjit Live Blog Stats. Map. Locations of visitors to this page ...
- Autumn Wiggins'EDM310Blog: My PLN for EDM 310
My personal learning network has grown since taking Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class. In fact, it was not even in existence til this class. As I have began to learn more about technology in general, I have also learned that you leave a trail ...
- Angel Dixon EDM310Blog: Project 6 Personal Learning Network
Before this class I had never heard of a Personal Learning Network, but thanks to Dr. Strange I had the opportunity to create one. I established my PLN through Blogspot.com, Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. MY most used PLN is blogger. ...
- Kim Wright's EDM 310 Class Blog: Personal Learning Network
For my EDM 310 class I was assigned to create a personal learning network (PLN). This is an online learning network of people. You can get information and ideas from the people you contact in your network. For my PLN I used twitter to ...
- Tosha Thomas EDM 310 Class Blog: Personal Learning Network
A PLN is a personal learning network, where a person can contact others in various ways to gain topical information. This can help a teacher throughout her teaching career. At the beginning of November I joined a site called ProTeacher ...
- In Touch: Using Twitter Yet?
While that might sound fun, it's probably not the best way to build a personal learning network. Twitter lists (a relatively new feature) make it much easier to locate groups worth following, but you may want to start slow with a ...
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