This article from The Journal talks about CoP through the work of teachers and how they use them to be a better teacher. The first part of the article is on the theory that teachers have been usin...
This article compares the real application of MOOC to the theory of connectivity and how it is meant to work.
This is a great paper talking about connectivity with "what we learn" "How we learn" and "Where we Learn." The author is from Chile is give a good perspective on this works world wide.
In this article from The Journal Patricia Deubel, Ph.D give a really good break down of connectivity and how learn now for students is not about know what but knowing where to find it.
This article has a great list of new trends in the culture of learning. The trend that I found most surprising and relevant to PLN's is the formal education is no longer the majority of our learnin...
This article talks about how PLN have been around forever but with the advent of wireless access it has changed how we interact with our PLN.
This is a fun article about teachers and there PLN. It goes through and talks about them from the pre internet 80's, the email 90's and the social 2000.
Hello! I appreciate that you, and the article, discuss student-directed learning. I think that emphasizing responsibility, independence, and giving students the opportunity to have control over the...
Hey Terrence! You're welcome. I hope I did it right. :) It seemed logical to do things that way. Cheers! Buffy
http://anitacrawley.net/Articles/DabbaughPLE.pdf A scholarly article discussing personal learning environments, formal learning, informal learning, social media, and self-regulated learning, as a ...
Hi! I agree with Buffy in that the table was one of the most powerful pieces of this article. It broke the concept down and helped me understand communities of practice in many real world settings.
http://tech.ed.gov/ Here is one of my favorite websites.
Interesting read! I agree with you completely that it does seem to be pretty black in white in terms of either diving in to using social media in the classroom or adamantly resisting. I will be int...
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/making-case-social-media-in-schools-jim-asher Another example of how Jim Asher, a principal, has embraced the use of social media in the classroom and expects his tea...
http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/news/educational-social-media-use/ Article discusses the benefits of social media, the negatives for using social media, and gives advice on what not to do. I...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx5VHpaW8sQ A video of Dr. George Siemens. I forgot how much learning takes place biologically. Dr. Siemens talks about three different levels of connectivism. Dr. ...
This article from Harvard Business School talks about the history of CoP and how they have been around for a very long time but only now are being seen as having a positive impact on work.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr093.shtml
Social Networking and Walled Gardens 1. Amanda Lenhart. (2015, April 9). Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-te...
These two YouTube channels have huge collections of video tutorials on how to use the basic suite in education, and are organized very well: Flipped Classroom Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/us...
