The Job of Personal Learning | injenuity - 2 views
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challenges faced by people joining digital personal learning spaces.
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the introduction of the PLN must take into account individual and self.
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To make the experience valuable, participants need technical skills, social maturity, emotional stability, self-control, professionalism, empathy, critical thinking ability, and common sense.
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conceptual understanding of social media
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ability to select appropriate tools for individual situations
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Environment
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consider
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hysical spaces in which the work will occur, technical specifications, administrative support, and the design of the tools
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It is worth the battle to convince others these barriers need to be removed
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Technical Skills
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We need to be aware of these people in our audience when presenting these tools, so we can offer solutions and help them get up to speed
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Social Maturity
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Emotional Stability and Self Control
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everyone already has a personal learning network
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It is usually comprised of people in their face to face world, along with some they connect with digitally
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not everyone is able to recognize when they are learning
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encouraging the individual to recognize their own learning and identify their existing network connections
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My final thought is that we cannot expect others to be able to make the types of connections we made in the field of educational technology
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I am searching for solutions to make this process more transferrable across disciplines and roles.
