Rajagopal. The Power of Professional Learning Networks « Nelta Choutari. Shyam Sharma Your “social” network is probably represented fairly well with who is on your Facebook “friends” list and how you engage with those people. But what does your professional learning network look like? In fact, what is a professional learning network? In this entry, I share with you a powerful concept called the “professional learning network” (PLN) and share a few specific tips on how to develop–or become more conscious and deliberate about–a professional learning network in order to enhance your professional development as teachers and scholars, and what is more important, also help others in your professional community develop professionally by sharing your knowledge with them. The concept of PLN originated from Personal Learning “Environment” (PLE), which referred to the situation and mechanism that a learner develops and uses for setting learning goals, managing learning process, and assessing outcome. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
There are many benefits of PLNs. Like this: Personal Learning Networks for Educators. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Rethinking Education: A New Michael Wesch Video. 8 must-reads detail how to verify information in real-time, from social media, users. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks.
This form of verification involves some new tools and techniques, and requires a basic understanding of the way networks operate and how people use them. It also requires many of the so-called old school values and techniques that have been around for a while: being skeptical, asking questions, tracking down high quality sources, exercising restraint, collaborating and communicating with team members. For example, lots of people talk about how Andy Carvin does crowdsourced verification and turns his Twitter feed into a real time newswire.
Lost in the discussion is the fact that Carvin also develops sources and contacts on the ground and stays in touch with them on Skype and through other means. Some things never go out of style. From the post: Verification must reads 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Bonus! Pearltrees - Visual Content Curating. Science Education on the Edge · Managing student websites with Pearltrees. This is just a quick post to share a neat tool for keeping track of student websites called Pearltrees. I ran across this article recently and thought this might be useful for organizing all of my student sites that I need to keep track of. As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I keep track of individual student blogs using RSS feeds. But there are many times that I want a simple way to pull up a student website to show to a student, administrator, or parent, and an RSS feed reader is ok, but clunky for that purpose.
I’ve bookmarked my student blogs, too, of course, which works but lacks any style or graphic organization. Perhaps all the iOS and app downloading frenzy that went on this week and the resulting extra time spent on the iPad had something to do with it. Their app is simple to use and makes use of a bookmarklet to capture any site you choose. Pearltrees: discover, organize and share your stuff easily. Pearltrees is a fantastic web2.0 tool . It is “ the social curation community , a place where you can organize , discover and share the staf you like on the web ‘.It looks like Livebinders and symbalooedu but does a greater job than them .
I tried it and i really love it and decided to share it with you because i am sure you will love it too once you try it . watch this video to have an idea of what Pearltress is all about Some features of Pearltrees Here are the main things that set Pearltrees apart from other organizing tools out there :It is completely free You don't have to create an account to browse or search pearltrees. How can i get started using Pearltrees Log on to Pearltrees main page and open your account there , it is free and quick Now watch this awesome video tutorial to learn how to use Pearltress Application of Pearltrees in education Nobody would ever judge the importance of Pearltrees in education . Here are other Organizing tools you might like : Recherche Twitter - #pearltrees...