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Great argument for social networking in schools.

This article provides a good outlines of personal learning network with links connecting to information about Connectivism as well as constructivism The information Is supported with video discussion of PLN's as well as links to additional resources that can be used to manage your PLN.

A White paper to identify key state policy issues, with recommendations for the development of a multistate network. July 2014 Digital Learning Now

The Wisconsin Innovative Schools Network (WISN) supports the establishment and growth of high quality, research-based innovative schools. The site contains innovative practices, resources, and education models.

This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible.

Collection of ION's technology tip of the month

Although students are evermore connected to the social web, many of these networks remain out-of-class digital playgrounds where students congregate. In a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students. Of course, it can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons.

Meet Your Students Where They Are: Social Media We're used to engaging students in the real world, now it's time to engage them in social online spaces like Facebook and Twitter. Online social networking has become an integral space for many of our students to live out their daily personal interactions.

This is an interesting article about analysis methods of asynchronous courses.

This article explains that differentiated learning is not the same as personalized learning. From my interpretation, differentiated learning is tailored to the needs of a learner within a specific framework (such as State Standards/Common Core) while personalization also considers all of the learner's interests outside of the overarching academic goals, paces the learning to the needs of the student, and uses feedback to adjust as necessary.

The following blog post was written by Drew Schrader, director of assessment for New Tech Network (NTN). The opinions expressed in this blog post are Drew's and should not be taken to represent the Alliance for Excellent Education.

This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.

Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.