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The construction of a PLN enables educators to harness the power inherent in 21st Century technologies in order to create a professional growth tool that is accessible whenever, wherever. Tablet apps are great tools to access RSS feeds and create your own customized news feeds. Educators can even create their own RSS feeds!
Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personallearningnetwork (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. Additionally, it is important that we ask for their feedback so we can continue to provide the best learning opportunities for them.
Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personallearningnetwork and share teaching tips and tricks. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly. Lock from the University of Calgary has developed a four-item framework to help teachers design authentic collaborativelearning.
There is however a growing number of educators using Twitter who look for strategies to better serve them in social media for collaborativelearning. First, we must understand that the worst advocates for collaborating with Twitter are more often educators who are collaborating through Twitter. I follow over 3,000.
Today’s learners have become more directed and into the ownership of their learning. The classroom is no longer the only location where learning takes place. The idea of collaborativelearning has always been with us in education, and in life in general. It is the social learning we talk about.
It is a complex network of dynamic resources that we all acknowledge is constantly changing to adapt to the growing demand for entertainment, communication and access to knowledge. The Network Society. This is a contested label for new and emergent properties that are found on the Web. Retrieved 7 February, 2014. van Dijk, J.
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