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Personal Learning Networks

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Good summary of personal learning networks by Will Richardson:

It’s ingenuous to think that kids are not using personal learning networks already.They are but just not in schools. What teachers need to do is to recognise this use and help kids to import the concept into their school learning in ways that can leverage the power of plns to improve what it is they’re learning.

And they must ensure that kids are doing so safely, ethically and effectively. The best way to do it is to create our own personal learning networks and learn from the experience.

DABBLERR – Personalising education

Dabblerr is an educational platform for people to involve their friends, and friends of their friends, and create enough demand so as to learn a topic of their choice from their favourite hero. It’s an effort by the next generation to request the most successful people in the world, to commit to giving few hours of their time, to train them so as to pass on their knowledge and expertise to achieve a shared prosperity that benefits all. Thus, we are not only creating a mentoree base around some of the most successful people and fan base around topics but also will be matching interesting opportunities around it. 

Dabblerr believes its time for people who want to learn a skill to demand the study environment and educator. Rather than the traditional way, where you have an educator offering a particular course to a number of people, over here in Dabbler, we have people coming to our website and creating enough demand so as to learn a topic of their choice from their favourite hero. It’s a win-win enabler which flipped the traditional educational system to make it “by demand”.. At Dabblerr, we are obsessed with the Warren G Bennis quote “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish”. We are on a mission to create an environment where people can flourish.
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Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens – Dec 12 09

I am finding less and less value in the term “learning“.

Learning is constant, ongoing. We cannot stop it if we wanted to (short of watching reality TV or reading a Blackboard lawsuit filing).

Often when the term “learning” is used, I think we really mean “sense making“. We want to make sense of our environment.

We want to know what we should do, what types of evidence supports viewpoints others hold, or how we should think about politics / global warming / economics / etc. Sure, at the most basic level, learning is involved. But when applied to work or even decisions we need to make in our lives, our focus is not on some esoteric concept of learning. Instead, the intent is to orient ourselves to a complex set of phenomenon and to plan potential courses of action.

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My PLN Blueprint in 5 parts « My Island View

One of today’s educational buzzwords, or fad terms is the PLN.  For my purposes it stands for Personal Learning Network. Others call it a Professional Learning Network or Community or even Environment. That would be PLN, PLN, PLC, or PLE. Many educators today are involved understanding and developing their own PLN’s. Everyone has one, and each is different and as unique as a fingerprint. Some employ technology, and others dwell in faculty rooms across the country and around the world.

The history of my PLN began back in the late 70’s. It was formed not through the technology of the computer, but rather about the technology of a 27 foot sailing vessel. It was merely a sailboat, but in my mind, being my first boat, it was truly a vessel.

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Pierre Levy on Collective Intelligence Literacy – HowardRheingold – blip.tv

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Definition of collective intelligence – broad phenomenon that has its origins in the animal realm. In humans such animal collective intelligence is enhanced by language and culture allowing knowledge to be passed from one generation to another. Human collective intelligence is augmented by technology – starting from language. Any convention/technology that enhances our language ability will enhance our collective intelligence. Writing systems, printing press, e-media and digital networks – augment both personal cognitive abilities (memory and perception) and collective cognitive abilities (cooperate, share, increasing the stock of collective memory). The augmentation of collective intelligence by digital networks is simply an extension of an evolutionary process that goes back to the development of language. New digital tools for memory, perception and reasoning can be used effectively and they can be misused.

The essence of the new skills in digital tools is to create a synergy between personal knowledge management and collective knowledge management.

Personal knowledge management = connecting to people and sources of knowledge through a wide variety of platforms: filter: categorise: prioritise in order to be able to share it with others who are doing the same.
It has to work for you and work for others at the same time: mutuality.
So twitter comments must enable others to categorise the reading (url) that you have tweeted.
Filter + making available = curation – so we are all increasingly behaving as librarians – the keeper of personal knowledge but because of the tools we are using that personal knowledge has the power to become collective.

The philosophy is as old as the golden mean – do unto others as you expect they do unto you. Or even Kant’s Categorical Imperative.