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Remote Access: Growing Student Networks
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."
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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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Sustaining Social Networks
"Everyone a URL
a person
a group
a conversation
a media item
an event
a post (of every kind) is a URL"
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More on Groups versus Networks and Collectives | Virtual Canuck
1. groups emphasize sameness, networks emphasize diversity
2. groups emphasize order and control, networks emphasize autonomy
3. groups emphasize borders and membership, networks emphasize openness
4. groups emphasize additive, cumulative knowledge, networks emphasize emergent knowledge
2¢ Worth » Returning to, “If it’s not about the technology?”
I think that is really what technology has to offer: “Networking”.
The problem is that ‘networking’ sometimes has negative connotations to it, but in reality I’m not talking about networking in the same way that it has always been used in the past.
Think before you jump! « Effective Digital Classrooms
A few people have asked me about ‘where do people start’ in re-thinking their use of ICT in the classroom.
Share More! Wiki » Work/Build Your Own Personal Learning Network?
If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation about what you are passionate about.
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If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation about what you are passionate about. And missing out is a darn shame because it can save you time, energy, and increase your reach, no matter how brilliant (or not) you are. That’s a powerful idea. Smart people get smarter because they have access to the network of learners. People who are just starting out are able to learn as fast as they can to accomplish what they need to do.
When I meet folks who are just becoming aware of the global conversation — usually because I push them over the edge in a workshop — I like to share several tools with them.
Instantaneous | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I want students to know this kind of learning… in school. I want them to be active members in a global learning network. I want them to follow their own interests, to make choices about what information they will choose to pay attention to, what to check later, and what to filter out. I want students to be 21st Century learners.
injenuity » Teaching and Learning With Twitter 2008
Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
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Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
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