Remote Access: Growing Student Networks - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 May 09
  

  mrs durff
  • 5 ideas for moving in this direction:
  • Give your students time to find connections with people and content around the globe. If we want them to be connected, we must make this a priority. They need time to search, to surf, and to read, watch and listen to content made by others. Don't see this as "extra."
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  • • Have conferences with the students in your class on a regular basis about who they are reading, watching and listening to. Ask questions. "Why are you reading that? What have you learned from that source lately?"
    • Help your students to find new nodes of connection. Make regular contact with other teachers and classes around the globe who are prosumers of digital content. Keep a blogroll, an email list, a delicious account, etc. Knowing your students better than anyone else, you can make suggestions to them about people they might enjoy reading.
    • Allow your students to have individual networks they work with. This is vital. They all don't need to be subscribing to and reading the same content. A larger, loose network will allow ideas from different parts of the globe to flow into your space. While as the teacher you certainly need to be ensuring that your students are safe online and reading information that is appropriate for your place, encourage them to add additional sources of information outside of those that you have officially sanctioned.
    • Content comes to us in all sorts of modes. Don't restrict yourself and your students to just reading blogs. Find news sources from around the world, YouTube channels, podcasts, flick groups and delicious accounts. Kids need to learn how to locate content in all of its forms and dig out the valuable pieces of it. They need to learn how to filter information more and schools need to filter it less.
    • Use these ideas as a starting point with your class. Encourage your students to network, to track who they are reading and working with. Ask them to diagram their networks at different times during the year and talk about them. Who are they learning from? Who are they teaching?
• 17 May 09
  

  Sarah Sutter

  Great post on student networks, some tips for facilitating their use and expansion, and why loose open networks add more to the discussion.

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• 14 May 09
  

  Dave Truss

  a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.

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  • "The shape of a social network helps determine a network's usefulness to its individuals. Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections (weak ties) to individuals outside the main network. More open networks, with many weak ties and social connections, are more likely to introduce new ideas and opportunities to their members than closed networks with many redundant ties. In other words, a group of friends who only do things with each other already share the same knowledge and opportunities. A group of individuals with connections to other social worlds is likely to have access to a wider range of information. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network."
  • a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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  • • 5 ideas for moving in this direction:
• 09 May 09
  

  Susan Funk

  remote-access networks reading writing blogs

• 08 May 09
  

  Karl Fisch

  networked_learning pln

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