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21 Resources About Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)- Shelly Terrell - 1 views

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Shelly Terrell PLN elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0 connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 11
     
    I am passionate about PLNs. My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my students daily. They feed me experience, knowledge, and support 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Therefore, I hope you take time to bookmark these various resources, share them with other educators through workshops and presentations, and spread the message of PLNs.
Keith Hamon

Personal Learning Network - 2 views

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Daniel Tobin PLN learning education social networking connectivism Education 2.0 rhizome

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  • An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Okay, so PLNs as an educational concept have been around for a while, at least since 1998. And not just in education, but in the "real world." The significant change today is that we cannot speak of PLNs without talking about online networks.
  • we are all inundated with data (Stage 1) -- all those manuals, brochures, memos, letters, reports, and other printed material that cross our field of vision every day, not to mention all that we receive electronically
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Data overload has simply been complicated and exacerbated by the Internet. We have WAY more data than we can possibly deal with. We have moved from an age of information scarcity to information glut.
  • when you take data and give it relevance and purpose, you create information. Information (Stage 2) is the minimum we should be seeking for all of our learning activities.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key component of QEP: to find ways to make the class data relevant and purposeful information-purposeful beyond simply making a good grade. We suspect that most students never move beyond memorizing the class data so that they can repeat it on the test and then forget it. They never turn the data into useful and purposeful information, much less turn the data into knowledge or wisdom.
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  • Even when we have information, we must use that information by applying it to our work before we can say we "know it." Until we use it, it remains information. Knowledge (Stage 3) comes from applying information to our work. This is the stage at which most company training programs fail -- too often the content of company training programs never gets applied to the employee's work. To me, this means that the investment in that training is totally wasted.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying information to our work is the tricky part for students: as most of them do not yet sense that they have any real work. QEP is looking for ways to turn their data processing into knowledge management.
  • Wisdom (Stage 4), that most precious possession, comes from adding intuition and experience to knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      I think that many believe wisdom is beyond the reach of most classrooms, but I'm not willing to give up on it. However, it means that we must provide real, relevant experiences in class through which the student can develop wisdom.
  • This is why having a personal learning network is so important -- to provide us not only with pointers to sources of information, but to answer questions, to coach us, to reinforce our learning when we try to apply it to our work.
  • First, we must sort through all of the available data to find only that information that is relevant to our learning needs and for which we have a purpose.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Too often missing from our classes, which too seldom address a common question among students: how will I use this in the future?
  • Once we have gathered and learned the needed information, we need to apply it to our work in order to transform it into our personal knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying new data to our own work to transform it into personal knowledge. This is as fine a statement of the aims of QEP as I can think of: we use online writing to help students create PLNs as engines for churning the data they are exposed to in their classes into personal knowledge.
  • Who should be in your personal learning network? The members of your network do not need to be people with whom you work directly. In fact, you do not even need to know the people personally. The members of your network should be people, both inside and outside of your work group and your company, who have the knowledge that you are trying to master and who are willing to share their knowledge and experience with you.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      A student's PLN should, of course, include fellow class students and the teacher, but also students, teachers, experts, friends, and others outside the class. We do that online.
  • To establish a learning network, you can ask other people in your group, or with whom you have gone through a training program, to participate in periodic discussions as you all try to implement a new way of working, to support each other and share experiences with each other. Most people are happy to help -- people generally like to talk about their own work and are honored to be asked to share their knowledge and wisdom.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key to social networks: most people LIKE getting together, talking about common interests, and sharing what they know. We need to connect our students to such networks-connectivity, connectivism.
  • the value of knowledge increases when you share it with others.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      We need to explore when knowledge is best considered a cooperative, connect-and-collaborate property and when it is best considered a competitive, command-and-control property. When should knowledge be part of the Commons and when should it be proprietary? What about on a test? What about in an essay or research document?
  • Building a personal learning network is requires that you not only seek to learn from others, but also that you also help others in the network learn.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      The principle of reciprocity is a key element in building PLNs, and one that most students never learn in grade school, where they are kept in their seats, eyes on their own work, hands to themselves, and forbidden to talk to their colleagues. Who could possibly run a real organization with those rules? It's a model of behavior for an assembly line worker, but not a knowledge worker. Why do our schools have this mismatch?
  • A personal learning network can be your most powerful learning tool no matter what the subject.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This one sentence should be in all correspondence, advertisements, and discussions about QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
     
    An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
Keith Hamon

Stages of PLN adoption - 0 views

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Jeff Utecht connectivism PLN

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  • Try and find that balance between learning and living. Understanding that you can not know it all, and begin to understand that you can rely on your network to learn and store knowledge for you.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
       
      Here is a key justification for Connectivism: we simply cannot contain all the information we need in our one little head. We must rely on our networks to collect, store, and critical think about information for us.
  • Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
     
    I have noticed an emerging trend of what one goes through when adopting a PLN for the first time. I myself continue to look at the stages I am going through in adopting this new way of learning, interacting, and teaching in a collaborative, connected world.
Keith Hamon

16 Resources about Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) | Teacher Reboot Camp - 0 views

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PLN edTech social networking Education 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 May 10
     
    I have researched the what, who, when, how, and why of Personal/Professional/Passionate Learning Networks (PLNs).
Keith Hamon

The eXtended Web and the Personal Learning Environment « Plearn Blog - 0 views

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Rita Kop Web 3.0 PLN

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  • 1. A personal profiler that would collect and store personal information. 2. An information and resource aggregator to collect information and resources. 3. Editors and publishers enabling people to produce and publish artifacts to aid the learning and interest of others. 4. Helper applications that would provide the pedagogical backbone of the PLE and make connections with other internet services to help the learner make sense of information, applications and resources. 5. Services of the learners choice. 6. Recommenders of information and resources.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10
       
      These may be the key technological features of the next generation PLN.
  • Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10
     
    Thoughts about how Web 3.0, the eXtended Web, might affect PLNs.
Keith Hamon

eLearn: Feature Article - Creating Online Professional Learning Communities - 1 views

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Elizabeth A. Gruenbaum PLN PLC social networking Education 2.0

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  • This has expanded into the idea of a social presence where one is able to be seen as a real person in a virtual environment
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 May 10
       
      This is a core idea in establishing a PLN/PLE/PLC and too often overlooked. Each member of a PLN needs a virtual identity first, from which they can connect to others and from which they can create and add value to the PLN.
  • Keith Hamon on 24 May 10
     
    how can we translate what we know about PLCs from a site-based environment into a virtual environment?
Keith Hamon

Why (And How) You Should Create A Personal Learning Network - 2 views

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Eric Patnoudes PLN elearning social networking connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 03 Oct 12
     
    An argument that teachers should develop a PLN.
Keith Hamon

TeachThought8 Ideas, 10 Guides, And 17 Tools For A Better Professional Learning Network... - 0 views

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PLN web2.0 professional development connectivism rhizome

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Oct 12
     
    Personal learning networks are a great way for educators to get connected with learning opportunities, access professional development resources, and to build camaraderie with other education professionals. Although PLNs have been around for years, in recent years social media has made it possible for these networks to grow exponentially. Now, it's possible to expand and connect your network around the world anytime, anywhere.
Keith Hamon

OklahomaHandout.doc - 0 views

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PLN 21st century skills literacy

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  • Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
     
    A collection of resources, with links, for building PLNs.
Keith Hamon

YouTube - Networked Student - 0 views

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Wendy Drexler PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10
     
    Great video of what a networked student looks like inside his PLN.
Keith Hamon

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 1 views

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Emily Senger elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism rhizome

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  • “There’s this notion that technology is networked and social. It does alter the power relationship between the educator and the learner, a learner has more autonomy, they have more control. The expectation that you wait on the teacher to create everything for you and to tell you what to do is false.”
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      This is perhaps the practical heart of Connectivism: that the world is networked and that the learner is at the center of their own personal learning network.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      PLNs must have filters and aggregators to help us manage the massive flow of information in MOOCs.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      Validation remains a very sticky issue for online learning and for PLNs. However, I'm not sure the resolution will be to find a method for online validation, redefinition of validation, or a mixture of both.
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  • It’s a question that proponents of online education continue to grapple with. Even if a student in an open course gains from their experience, there is no guarantee that the boss, or a potential employer, will recognize their learning without a certificate or other official, institution-approved record to prove it.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
     
    With advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
Keith Hamon

YouTube - Scott Moore : Using Technology and Collaboration to Engage Students (Part 1) - 1 views

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Scott Moore PLN collaboration writing critical thinking elearning Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
     
    Nice video that explores many of the techniques we use in QEP to promote student connectivity, PLNs, and collaboration.
Keith Hamon

Is 'The School of One' the future of schooling? - Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views

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PLN eLearning social networking

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  • Keith Hamon on 30 Mar 10
     
    Is this school in New York City the future of schooling? Short video presentation that describes how one school is moving students to the center of their own PLNs.
Keith Hamon

Digital Portfolios in the Age of the Read/Write Web (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu | ... - 0 views

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Jonan Donaldson eportfolio writing elearning Education 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 06 Nov 12
     
    Key Takeaways Education built around digital portfolios not only ties together various student-generated artifacts into a coherent whole but also creates an environment in which technology use has a clearly identified purpose. Hundreds of services provide free hosting and website creation tools and are ideal platforms for digital portfolios because they can support just about any type of digital content. Turning consumers of knowledge into producers of knowledge transforms learning into an active experience.
Keith Hamon

8 Ways Teachers and Students Can Use Google+ | Diigo - 0 views

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Med Kharbach Google+ writing elearning Education 2.0 Web 2.0 social networking PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Apr 12
     
    Med kharbach
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The Death of the Traditional Web: Implications for Self-Directed Learning | Social Lear... - 1 views

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social learning hive learning elearning Education 2.0 connectivism social networking PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 17 Feb 12
     
    Traditional use of the Web (i.e. non-mobile and non-video usage) is shrinking.  Per-person consumption of traditional Web content fell by 3 percent between March 2010 and March 2011 in terms of minutes. Within that shrinking slice of online time, Facebook is increasingly the portal for everything.  While the "document Web" (as author Ben Elowitz terms the old-style Web) shrank by 9 percent overall, Facebook consumption increased by 69 percent, essentially stealing time from everything else.  It now accounts for 1 out of every 8 minutes of online time, as opposed to 1 out of 13 at the beginning of the year.  Search engines, once the gatekeepers to the Web, are giving way to Facebook.  Google and everything it represents is facing the first stages of irrelevancy.
Keith Hamon

What a Tech Start-Up's Data Say About What Works in Classroom Forums - Wired Campus - T... - 0 views

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Jeffrey R. Young writing PLN online discussion

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Aug 12
     
    There's big talk these days about "big data" in education-looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.
Keith Hamon

You Can Summarize Your Thesis in a Tweet, but Should You? - Wired Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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Nick DeSantis Twitter writing elearning critical thinking social networking PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 17 Jan 12
     
    Students across the world are using the Twitter hashtag #tweetyourthesis to shrink their academic thesis work down to single 140-character posts.
Keith Hamon

Technology-Driven Community Building Activities - Home - 0 views

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Jackie Gerstein mobile learning social networking PLN elearning

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  • Keith Hamon on 30 Jan 12
     
    This website has been designed to describe mobile learning and technology-based activities that facilitate a sense of community in a variety of educational and training settings. The links in the menu lead to descriptions of the individual activities.  They rely mostly on texting, emailing, and photo-taking activities.  Free, group sharing internet sites are also used which require access to the Internet via a smartphone or computer.  Sites such as Flickr Photo Sharing, Google Docs, and Web 2.0 tools supplement some of the activities.
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