Engaging Students

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Alec Couros’s diagram of a typical teacher network

Personal Learning Environments help learners take control of and manage their own learning set goals, manage content and process, communicate and network integration of both formal and informal learning episodes into a single experience

This is very complicated map, but perhaps not as complicated as my actual PLN Since I first tried to visualize my PLE I think I now have a better understanding of what it is and how it's useful. I look at my personal learning environment as a series of events, sequences, and branches. There are starting points and ending points, though those vary. It is these "sequence points", however, that are probably the most useful to look at and study: Sequence Points Laptop - articles, work-in-progress, media Web-enabled phone - find info anywhere, anytime. Draft, store, send, share ideas and notes Search engine - find info fast Wikipedia/encyclopedia - a great place to start learning and branching Libraries - find more info, books, articles Diigo/Delicious bookmarking - save, store, share web sites. Also annotate sites for use in drafts My blog - draft articles and ideas--very good for individual/personal projects Google docs - draft, collaborate, and share--specifically good for work projects Feed reader/GReader - incoming headlines and articles on topics I choose. Allows me to quickly survey the current state of affairs and branch in and out These are primarily information management and regurgitation. I have a number of "interaction points" that cycle information in and out of my PLE: Interaction Points Conversations - one-on-one or small groups, live conversation is an art, and inevitably branches to different sequence points Twitter - public microjournaling; great for bouncing ideas and starting conversations, branches Other's blogs - gain perspectives, branch to information sources. Good branching Blog comments - support or dispute my ideas, often sending me back to info sources Mailing lists/discussion groups - still a great way to post questions and get answers, or vice versa. Sometimes an absence of answers is as important as an answer. I include LMS in this, as I teach and can learn as I teach. Text messaging/IM/e-mail - brief q&a or one-to-one info sharing

Scott I think about it in terms of "postures" external image asana-card1-L.jpg The postures I usually think about are 1. reading/consuming information, content, reflection, etc, 2. producing/creating information, content, reflection, etc, 3. weaving together components, people and conversations on the network, and activity that surely encompasses the former two but also has some distinct aspects to it in and of itself. I realized later there was one missing - figuring out what is important to me, what I need to learn!

One disadvantage of a growing PLE is that you can make so many connections with so many smart people that you might feel like this. This is a good time to turn it over to other smart people.

The 21st Century Teacher – Frank's Blog This is a great example of how networks are built – one connection at a time. We can network from person to person, but the reason for using Web 2.0 is to expand the reach of your network without limit.

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Engaging Students - Presentation Transcript

Engaging Students with MS Office Applications and Web 2.0 Tools Leecy Wise www.reconnectioncompany.com
People don’t learn from what you do.
- They learn from what they do.
They learn when they are relaxed.
They learn when they are laughing.
They learn what they practice.
They practice what they enjoy.
They don’t learn from content.
They learn from interaction
with content, with their peers, and with you.
Your Personal Leaning Environment
- is a unique representation of how you interact with different elements in order to learn.
PLE
In other words, a PLE is a combination of the formal and informal tools and processes we use to gather information, reflect on it and do something with it, which is essentially what we mean when we talk about learning.
- http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/04/my_personal_lea.html - Michele Martin
The next six slides are taken from , “Grow Your Personal Learning Environment with Web 2.0” a workshop offered by Jared Stein, Scott Leslie, and Chris Lott at TTIX, June 2009.
taken from Couros, A, "Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education" PhD Thesis, http://www.scribd.com/doc/3363/Dissertation-Couros-FINAL-06-WebVersion , p. 176 & 177
taken from Couros, A, "Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education" PhD Thesis, http://www.scribd.com/doc/3363/Dissertation-Couros-FINAL-06-WebVersion , p. 176 & 177
We can network from person to person, but the reason for using Web 2.0 is to expand the reach of our network without limits.
If education is about recognizing choices,
give learners choices about how they can learn something as they grow their own PLE’s!
Interactive technology tools offer choices as they interact
with you, with others, and with content.