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Learning Networks andProfessionalDevelopment
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORKS
Online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.”Social media are works of user-created video, audio, text or multimedia that are published and shared in a social environment, such as a blog, wiki or video hosting site.
What are social media?
Method of sharing and organizing online resources
Accessible 'on any internet connected computer
Subscribe to tags of interestFollow like-minded people through a network
Why Social Bookmark
Blogs (edublogs.org, wordpress.com)Micro blogging (twitter.com, plurk.com)Wikis (wikispaces.com, pbwiki.com)Social Networks (META: metamexico.ning.com)Social Bookmarking (del.cio.us, diigo.com)Digital Photo Sharing (Flickr.com, slideshare.com)Video Conferences – Chat (ie. Skype.com)RSS Feed Aggregates (ie. Reader.google.com)Podcasting and Vodcasting (voicethread.com)Virtual Worlds (secondlife.com, lively.com)
Web 2.0 generally refers to an interactive read/write Web rather than simply a passive read-only Web.
Getting Connected: Web 2.0 Tools
Learning is a network forming processCapacity to know more is more critical than
what is knownLearning rests in aggregating diverse, often
opposing, viewsContent is often the by-product of the
learning process – not the starting pointConnections, not content, are the beginning
point of the learning process
Connectivism
Learning can reside in non-human appliancesKnowledge can rest within our networks not
only internally in ourselvesAbility to see connections (pattern
recognition) between ideas and concepts critical to learning
Currency (up to date knowledge) is the intent of properly created learning networks
Decision making is in itself a learning process George Siemens, www.connectivism.ca
Connectivism
Typical Teacher Network
Personal Learning Networks (PLS) Source: Sue Waters, 2008 Blog
In a learning network, individuals will: Shift tools if they no longer suit the needs of the network.
Tag their content to aggregate it.
Make content come to them with feeds.
An Open Source project is a software product that is collaboratively built.
Everyone has access to help build the product if they have something worthwhile to contribute.
No one owns it. No one takes credit for it.Everyone gets to use the product… even
those who did not help build it.The “Sage on the Stage” is dead! Most of us
just don’t know it yet.
Learning is Becoming an Open Source Project
http://www.innovativeteachers.com
•Discovery Educator
Network
•ISTE
•Second Life for
Educators
•Classroom 2.0
•Educational
Technologists
•Using Wiki in Education
•School 2.0
http://
www.facebook.com/
Facebook Groups
Social-oriented applications and professional networks - new opportunities for learners and educators
Professional network generally refers to a professional network service, a virtual community that it is focused on professional
interactions instead of social interactions.A learning network is a group of persons
who create, share, support and studylearning resources (“units of learning”)
in a specific knowledge domain.
A model for personal learning environment (PLE) building is proposed
The modified Rogers’ model for competence development lifecycle in a learning network is used in order to be examined the main phases in competence progress of each student
Social networks contribute to the processes by which learners meet and communicate, and pool, share, learn about and reuse their resources, knowledge and competencies
PLE building is found to be a core for PLN and PLN deployment
The transition from PLE to PLN is an important step that supports students to become self-organized and life-long learners
Conclusion
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