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Building an Educator's Personal Learning Network
- 1. Building an Educator’s Personal Learning Network Leanne Courtney INF530
- 2. A Personal Learning Network is a collection of people with whom you engage and share information using a wealth of connections (Buchanan 2011).
- 3. The problem The way we learn is changing due to new technical and social opportunities with little help from the formal education system. The line between formal education and other kinds of learning and knowledge acquisition is blurring. (Beetham and Oliver 2010)
- 4. There is a wealth of digitally available information and the term “continuous partial attention” as described by Bawden (2012) describes the anxiety that can be felt from information overload.
- 5. The solution A Personal Learning Network would allow you to learn, share and converse with professionals within your industry and to group what is most important for your development together, through effective content curation.
- 6. Couros (2008) developed the networked teacher model, described by Drexler (2010), which is one that represents an educator’s professional learning environment (PLE). It serves as an example of the numerous connections that comprise a professional network and will equip an educator to facilitate networked learning if he or she has experienced the construction of such a model first hand.
- 7. How it works (Dale 2014) Step 1 Step 2 Organise information through categorisation Step 3 Networking through participation in networks to enhance learningUse tools to find and filter information
- 8. How it works (Dale 2014) Step 4 Step 5 Use sense making skills Step 6 Add insight through your own storytelling Use critical thinking skills
- 9. Selected Aggregation Tools ● Feedly ● Hootsuite ● Tweetdeck ● Evernote ● Diigo Aggregation has to do with collecting of information with minimal focus on weight and value of particular pieces of content - a way to filter the web (Grant in Herther 2012)
- 10. Selected Curation Tools ● Paper.li ● Scoopit ● Storify ● Pearltrees ● Pinterest The result of curation is new value in the group - as opposed to filtering (Grant in Herther 2012)
- 11. The warning Drexler (2010) warns that construction of a Personal Learning Network does not necessarily facilitate comprehension or deep understanding. Learning potential exists in what you do with the compilation of content and how it is synthesised.
- 12. So add your story….. Mihailidis (2013) confirms that Storytelling advances the core media literacy principles of analysis, evaluation and creating. Using content curation, you can compose a story with heightened awareness of purpose and audience.
- 13. Personal Learning Networks - Your Next Steps Interact and participate in online discussions Tweet, retweet and participate in scheduled education chats on Twitter Establish your own blog and share it with your networks Ask questions, provide answers and contribute to discussions Check your sources regularly Find ways to use what you have learned in your classrooms (Buchanan 2011)