Personal Learning Networks
Warlick, D. (2009). Grow your personal learning network: new technologies can keep you connected and help you manage information overload. Learning & Leading with Technology, 36(6), 12-17.
Personal Learning Networks are not new. We have been connecting with people for ages. They ways in which we connect, however, are changing. The internet has afforded us with communication that changes the definition of time. The almost synchronous ability to communicate has changed how we access information. Posting questions to Twitter or Facebook can get real results very quickly We can tap into the knowledge of our networks and participate in conversations that can enrich our learning and teaching.
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There is nothing new about personal learning networks. They are the people and information sources that help you accomplish your goals, either on the job or in your personal pursuits. They are the teachers who work in your school, your instructional supervisor, your library media specialist, the art teacher at the high school, which whom you are friends, the magazines you subscribe to, books you brought home from college, etc.
Today, however, new techniques for organizing digital networked information, have enabled us to fashion new kinds of networks that extend far beyond our immediate location and face-to-face connections, and to grow our networks based not on explicit decisions, but through the ideas of other nodes (people and resources), whose ideas intersect with ours.
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