Foundational documents for my PLN talk to the MIT 541 Colloquium II on 4/22/10
Read this first article and scan the David Warlick website.
"Growing Your Personal Learning Network by David Warlick, published by ISTE's Leading & Learning with Technology (PDF) "
"Participants in this presentation will learn how to utilize a variety of new web-based applications to construct and cultivate personal learning networks. Educators will learn to attract information from other professional educators, experts in the fields of study, current news and news searches, student perspective, relevant resources from a growing library of web-based digital content, and other content sources to assist them in adapting to this age of change. "
Supplamental Mats and links
Read / Scan these if you have some time
Story of how to implement plns with teachers
"Without my PLN the world is small and limited to the ideas that I can imagine."
My faculty know there are tools out there to help them. That's not hard to understand. My focus is getting their attitudes / feelings / affective domain to shift towards openness, sharing, and interdependence. I feel that conceptual understanding of the PLN is a major barrier to powerful and transformative use of web2.0 tools.
This article does a good job of explaining it in an accessible way.
"Telling people that we can “formalize informal learning” is a not so subtle way of saying, “it’s OK, you don’t have to make any fundamental changes to the way you’ve been been doing training & development for the past half century”."
Transcript / summary of #edchat group on Twitter.
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains"