Personal Learning Networks: A Conversation on Leadership, Learning and Creativity

Discovering Your Own Learning Networks A Conversation on Leadership, Learning and Creativity Bill Brennan Port Jefferson School District wbrennan@portjeff.k12.ny.us

Audience Survey – Who is in the room?  Building Administrator  District Level Administrator  Teacher  Board of Education  Parent  Others

My Current Projects and Work  Universal Design for Learning  1:1 Laptops for Learning  Data Collection – A New Look

What are you learning about?

Thomas L. Friedman

Sir Kenneth Robinson

Tony Wagner

Clayton M. Christensen

John Kotter

What should learning look like?  Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world.” Understanding Personal Learning Networks 20th Century Learning vs 21st Century Learning

DOES THIS = LEARNING?

Graduate HS 2026 May Retire in 2065

Tony Wagner: Seven survival skills for the new economy 1. Critical thinking and problem-solving 2. Collaboration across networks and leadership by influence 3. Adaptability and agility 4. Initiative and entrepreneurialship 5. Effective oral and written communication skills 6. Accessing and analyzing information 7. Curiosity and imagination

So Where Is The Connection?

A Working Definition  A personal or professional learning network (PLN) involves an individual’s topic-orientated goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or personal interest. David Warlick (SL) Followed vs Follow

Immersion Learning

Connectivism  Presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity. Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era.

Connectivism  The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. When knowledge, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.  The Networked Student

PLN - Tools  Google Alerts  RSS  Twitter  Community Wiki’s  Ning Networks  ITunes  Skype  Blogs  Second Life  YouTube  VoiceThread  Facebook  Pageflakes  Shelfari  Del.icio.us  Google Reader Professional Goal or Personal Interest

Suggestions for success  Create your own network.  Buy a domain name.  Use Google Calendar or a shared calendar.  Limit the number of blogs and other social sites you subscribe to.  Organize folders within your news aggregators (just like email).  Don’t feel like you have to read everything in your reader, b/c you can’t.  Get out to conferences across the county.  Set a goal of 15 minutes of new learning a day.  Find bloggers that are good connectors and filters. They will save you much time.  Go mobile for posting and reading.  Paper is still good. Create time during the week.  But most of all…

“A leader’s job is to engineer epiphanies one conversation at a time.” - Susan Scott

1. Create that sense of urgency 2. Get people excited, build your team. 3. Develop your change vision and strategy. 4. Communicate it. 5. Empower Others to act. 6. Produce short term wins and visible successes. 7. Don’t let up. 8. Create the new culture and make sure they succeed.

Questions? Take a few minutes to talk with your neighbor and formulate some questions, concerns or anything else on your mind about this presentation.

Contact Info Email: wbrennan@portjeff.k12.ny.us or maristbb@gmail.com Networks: http://schoolleadership.ning.com http://www.classroom20.com Twitter: bbrennan1 AIM: maristbb Delicious: maristbb Blog: http://www.k12edutalk.com Skype: maristbb

Do you have too many websites to keep up with? Do you want to stay connected with the latest research and educational blogs? Learn how to create your own Online Personal Learning Network through the use of RSS and more.

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Personal Learning Networks: A Conversation on Leadership, Learning and Creativity

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