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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 30, 2021

Mike Taylor

This post gathers a big collection of resources on Active Learning Strategies, Think-Pair-Share, Active Learning Classroom and Active Learning versus Passive Learning. Clark Quinn on how learning science underpins instructional design on the Accidental Trainer podcast. Where You Can Find Me.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

Not only does a sound understanding of the fundamental concepts have an obvious bearing on the employee’s ability to do their job properly, but leaving such learning to chance could have serious risk management and compliance ramifications. Social and professional networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

An integration of blogs, wikis, content management systems (plone), simple social tools (skype), networking tools (Orkut), collaborative spaces (groove, and acollab), and the use of emerging "connection-making" protocols like RSS and Atom. Tools like Furl , del.icio.us are examples of personal knowledge management (PKM) tools.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in social networks. It sort of feels like a classroom with too much noise and side conversations. As a teacher, we learn how to manage that. As a student we learn how to ignore the chatter. Another set of questions.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Learning teams and projects need to be assigned based on job roles. Teams need to learn to support and understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. The value of del.icio.us / Yahoo MyWeb is that it first helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective.

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