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People unfamiliar with the tools of this new social business space

The message this sends for L&D is that our jobs as enablers of performance clearly need to change from being knowledge dispensers to becoming learning guides.

A new focus for training: Forget the ephemera and get down to core skills

L&D needs to move from providing detailed task-based information to helping people develop a core set of useful generic skills that will provide them with the tools to find, analyse and make decisions to act at the point in time they need to act.

analysis of the impact of networks on society. Well before Baraba

analysis of the impact of networks on society

to understand how people connect

In a highly unstable world

economic and social innovation, imagination and creativity

Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free.

my professors of Twitter

Many of them don’t even know it and that’s the beauty. There is no course outline, no costly tuition (yet anyway), no declared major, and you can take as many electives as you want.

While we were glad to write up a handy guide to Twitter for teachers, the microblogging service has just rolled out an array of How To videos for their service. The recently launched Twitter Help Center now features a number of videos to answer questions such as “What is Retweet?” “What is Following?” “What is a Timeline?” and “How to Find People and Be Found“. Twitter has also set up a YouTube account for these videos.

When most people think of social networks, they think of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, or similar sites, but there are many other types of social networks popping up on the web. Some of the fastest growing networks are designed specifically for education. These sites allow people to learn in a social context through discussion, file sharing, and collaboration. Here are 20 social learning networks to visit in your spare time.

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Such specialization must not exclude general education

by developing one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think

Neurons have to apply the correct weights to each sensory cue, and the authors reveal how this is done

This deeper understanding of how brain circuits combine different sensory cues could also help scientists and engineers to design more sophisticated artificial nervous systems such as those used in robots

I have researched the what, who, when, how, and why of Personal/Professional/Passionate Learning Networks (PLNs). We have seen the benefits of the people we choose to connect, collaborate, and problem solve with through social media.

A community raises a child! Yes, I do believe this, which is why I am passionate about PLNs.

Research about PLNs Below are 16 resources I have collected about the history of PLNs, how to build a PLN, and the tools needed to build a PLN.

a more humanistic approach to Internet technology.

Lanier rails against web 2.0, which he calls at the start of the book "a torrent of petty designs" and "freedom [...] more for machines than people."

He writes that web 2.0 presents the current generation of kids with a "reduced expectation of what a person can be."

Undoubtedly instructional design is crucial if the mindset is learning events

then ID takes on a whole new dimension.

The vast majority of structured learning is content-rich and interaction-poor.

It would be great for educators to receive credit and recognition for the countless hours spent reading, listening, and implementing what other educators and experts have to say about Pedagogy, Technology, Science Education, and 21st Century Teaching.

So exactly what does my Personal Learning Network (PLN) look like? Here’s a sample of how I spend the first half hour of every morning learning before I go to work:Check my email.Check in with Twitter and Classroom 2.0 to see what people are saying, blogging, what websites are being referenced, or what webinars may be available later in the day.Visit interesting bookmarks shared through the Diigo groups I belong.I’ll check into Facebook to see what friends and relatives, some personal some professional, are up to this day.I’ll check my school and student email. (Students use a unique email to access me.)I’ll check my blog to see if I need to respond to anyone or perhaps I’ll add a new post.I’ll review the new posts of the many blogs I follow.Whatever new comes my way that day, I’ll click and check it out.All this before I even leave the house. Of course, I follow up at work when and where I am able. My expanded PLN is fairly new. I can’t imagine what this list will look like in a few months.If you're interested in developing your own PLN, check out this blog page by Lisa Nielsen, author of The Innovator Educator.

personal learning networks are created by an individual learner, specific to the learner’s needs extending relevant learning connections to like-interested people around the globe.

PLNs provide individuals with learning and access to leaders and experts around the world bringing together communities, resources and information impossible to access solely from within school walls.

I recommend Innovative Educators new to PLNs begin as a PLN consumer (1.0 skills) and grow into PLN producers (2.0 skills)

The general principles of chaos, complexity, and emergence can be partly translated into social sciences.

importance of recognizing that no one individual is able to master a discipline

All knowledge is in the connections – how we’ve connected concepts and how we are connected to other people and sources of information. To know is to be connected.

I've decided to post a semi-serious "Cliff Notes" version of advice for Twitter newbies, for the benefit of people new to Twitter who are too busy to read around how to use it to build a PLN (personal learning network) in depth.

The ability to spot existing or emerging patterns is one of the most (if not the most) critical skills in intelligent decision making, though we’re mostly unaware that we do it all the time

Combining past experience, intuition, and common sense, the ability to recognize patterns gives us the ability to predict what will happen next with some degree of accuracy. The better able we are to predict what will happen, the more intelligent we become. So, you might say that the purpose of intelligence is prediction.

Let’s look at an example

presentation about how Twitter and wikis can be used by teachers to create their own personal learning network

To help teachers in this process, Gina has set up a wiki Twitter4Teachers which contains pages of useful contacts divided up according to subject and area of interest.

I suggest you use Twitter Search to create RSS feeds for all those people who you are particularly interested in (your core group)and then subscribe to them in Google Reader so you can read their messages all in one place when you have the time. To do this, go to Twitter Search and put in the username of someone you want to follow then click on Search to generate the latest results. Click on the link Feed for this query on the right hand side of the page and copy the feed in the address bar which should look like the example below with the name of the person you want to track replaced by the word username: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=username

is a learning ecosystem, which is a community of connected people learning and working together

conversation, real-time, two way