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Self-Directed Learning Systems for Teachers and Kids
This document discusses self-directed learning and creating a personal learning environment (PLE). It defines key terms like personal learning networks and information overload. It recommends having a focus, curating quality inputs from sources like Twitter lists, YouTube playlists, and LinkedIn groups. It suggests places to synthesize information, like Google Docs and Linoit. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of structure and provides an example of a structured PLE using Symbaloo for the focus of game design.
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- 1. Self-Directed Learning Systems forTeachers and Kids Bernie Dodge San Diego State University
- 2. Overview • Important definitions • Information overload • Big parts and little parts, loosely joined • How to roll your own
- 3. What Does YourSchool Do to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?
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- 6. 15 Steps toCultivate Lifelong Learning 1. Always have a book 9. Unlearn assumptions 2. Keep a to-learn list 10. Find a better job 3. Get better friends 11. Start a project 4. Guide your thinking 12. Follow your intuition 5. Put it into practice 13. The morning 15 6. Teach others 14. Reap the rewards 7. Clean your input 15. Make it a priority 8. Learn in groups http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/15-steps-to-cultivate-lifelong-learning.html
- 7. LIFELONG LEARNING IS SELF-DIRECTEDLEARNING We’re not going to be teaching them forever
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- 9. Personal Learning Network Apersonal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection.
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- 11. Relating PLNs andPLEs Personal Learning Environments Personal Learning Networks
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- 16. PLEs for FutureTeachers http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/EDTEC470/fall12/resources/pls.htm
- 17. The Web =Small Pieces Loosely Joined David Weinberger - 2002
- 18. Info Scarcity –Still Within Memory
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- 24. Information Overload ≠Learning
- 25. MOST OF WHATWE CALL PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS ARE REALLY PERSONAL INFORMATION NETWORKS
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- 28. SO TO CREATEOUR OWN PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, WE NEED TO GO BEYOND JUST READING But what?
- 29. A PLE Needs • A Focus • A curated set of Inputs • A place to refine, distill & Synthesize • A method to Practice and reinforce • A Structure to hold it all together
- 30. Focus CC Credit: Flickruser Soelin
- 31. Focus • Pick somethingto learn • Size matters • Intermediate mastery in a reasonable time
- 32. My Personal PLEFocus • Game Design • More specifically, learning how to make educational games more educational without sacrificing fun
- 33. Inputs • Using thefocus, Blogs choose sources of information Book Tweeps lists • Can be individuals or media • Be selective! PLE
- 34. My Personal PLEInputs • Lists of specific twitter users Blogs • Playlists in YouTube Book • Amazon book Tweeps lists search • LinkedIn groups PLE • Specific RSS feeds • And more…
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- 37. Twitter Lists Every Twitterlist has its own URL. In this case: https://twitter.com/berniedodge/game-design
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- 39. RSS Feeds • EveryRSS Feed has a URL • Every folder of RSS feeds you have in Google Reader also has a URL • It looks like this: http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream /user%2F05084904569903170225%2Flabel%2 F%20Game%20Design
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- 41. YouTube Channels &Playlists • A channel is a set of videos originated from one account • A playlist is a list of videos chosen by you • Each has a unique URL that can be added to your PLE • Like this: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCB11 4282ACDFE703
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- 43. LinkedIn Groups • LinkedIn has recently become a great place to go for higher-level information sharing • There are groups on many topics • Here’s one one Board Game Design • http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1159637
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- 45. Delicious Tags • Beingsmart about how you tag things in Delicious makes it possible to find subsets of the things that matter to you. • Choosing tags that make sense to others will also allow you to benefit from the things they find. • Here’s a URL based on a tag I use: http://www.delicious.com/bdodge/gamedesign
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- 47. Book Searches • Doa search for a particular topic • Save the URL of the result page • Revisit it to see what’s new • Here’s my Amazon search for ‘game design’ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_0?rh=k%3Agame+design%2Ci%3A stripbooks&keywords=game+design&ie=UTF8&qid=1351237322
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- 49. Mendeley for Articles http://mendeley.com
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- 51. Notes from Evernote •Great way to capture information from real life • Conference notes • Conversations with people • Images, sounds • Each notebook has its own URL
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- 53. A PLE Needs • A Focus • A curated set of Inputs • A place to refine, distill & Synthesize • A method to Practice and reinforce • A Structure to hold it all together
- 54. Where Do YouSynthesize? • Google Docs • Linoit • Blogger
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- 56. Linoit • A placeto rearrange ideas and add to them • Patterned after a corkboard with stickies • Each canvas has a unique URL
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- 58. A PLE Needs • A Focus • A curated set of Inputs • A place to refine, distill & Synthesize • A method to Practice and reinforce • A Structure to hold it all together
- 59. A Structure toHold it Together http://symbaloo.com
- 60. My Game DesignPLE http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/ple-gamedesign
- 61. Self-Directed Learning Systems forTeachers and Kids Bernie Dodge San Diego State University