personal learning

Personal Learning

Anne Mims Adrian, PhD

Social Media Strategist

Military Families Learning Network

@aafromaa

aadrian@extension.org

slideshare.net/aafromaa

May 1, 2012

North Central Leadership Conference #nclc

PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

We want ... a crystal ball

We want ... a crystal ball with a

roadmap.

Make your own path

Embrace learning

Know that you must do

Be on the course (flow)

Then “be the ball”

“To learn, we must do.”

Harold Jarche

SETTING UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT

SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

Experiment

New tools

New connections

New sources

Learn what you don’t know that you need to know

SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

Become comfortable with

the tools

people

levels of credibility of sources

trial and error

opposite viewpoint

the unknown

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

Connect and learn from others

Join and engage in communities

Become a node

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

Exchange resourcesthoughtsquestionsideasexperiences

Collaborate

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

Learn to flow Networks are fluid

Balance dichotomy of critical mass and close enough for relevancy and understanding

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

Let serendipity work“Chance favours the connected mind.”

Steven Johnson

http://blog.anneadrian.com/2012/04/my-own-serendipitous-opportunities.html

MANAGING YOUR OWN LEARNING

AND KNOWLEDGE

You are in charge

“The only knowledge that can be managed is our own.” Harold Jarche

MANAGING YOUR OWN LEARNING

AND KNOWLEDGE

Manage information overload

Keep found things found ™ (doing this in the open canhelp others can learn)

The term Keeping Found Things Found was coined by William Jones in 1999 and he has written a book by the same name http://keepingfoundthingsfound.com/ )

http://www.slideshare.net/Jack_Davis/perspectives-in-personal-knowledge-management

MANAGING YOUR OWN LEARNING

AND KNOWLEDGE

Move efficiently between projects,ideas & thoughts

Identify automated ways to improve personal productivity

www.slideshare.net/Jack_Davis/perspectives-in-personal-knowledge-management

An exercise: What is the last thing you learned?

Who ?

What ?

Where ?

How ?

Draw a connection to you.

Draw the connection of how you first learn of that person.

How important is this person / source to you?

Do you trust this person / source? Why?

Why do you trust the person or source?

Why do you trust the person or source?

Valuable ?

Credible ?

Believable ?

Other descriptor ?

Continuous process

http://www.jarche.com/key-posts/personal-knowledge-management/

Seek

DiscoverKeep up to dateSearchPull

Sense

Reflect

Experiment

Reflect

Adjust

Put into

practice

Reflect

Personalize

Share

Converse

Exchange

Narrate your work

Collaborate

Social media just another set of tools

Getting information to come to you

Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts

http://learn.extension.org/events/471

Twitter Search Tweetdeck or Hootsuite on computer and either or Twitter app on smart phone

RSS Feedshttp://learn.extension.org/events/148

http://learn.extension.org/events/472

Getting information to come to you

Others’ Aggregators News.me, Newsle, Summify, Scoop.it

Google Newshttp://news.google.com/

Networking online

Finding and Following Othershttp://learn.extension.org/events/473

Find a few people who discuss and share what you are interested in and then follow who they follow.

Networking online

Find a few favorite bloggers and news writers

LinkedIn (group discussions)

Google Plus

Twitter (follow a critical mass)

Twitter Search and Follow relevant hashtagshttp://learn.extension.org/events/306

Networking online

Listen for awhile, then engage

Then expand

If it isn’t working adjust.

If it is working, adjust.

Consider traditional differently

Mass MediaNetwork News

Newspapers

Professional Journals and Magazines

Academic Journals

Books

Narrate what you are learning through all media (be mindful of copyright)

Share

Bookmark in the open: delicious, Diigo, Pearltrees, Pinterest

Will learn as you share & connect to other

Narrate as you learn

Narrate as you do your workBlogs, Commenting, Photos, Videos, Links,

Online Journals

Curate Scoop.it, Summify, Pinterest

Learning is not a

passive activity

What are the challenges?

Challenges

Be willing to fail 

Network Literacy http://www.extension.org/network_literacy

Join the CoPhttp://www.extension.org/people/communities/226

Participate in webinarshttp://learn.extension.org/events/tag/network%20literacy

Learn from AleX Netlithttp://twitter.com/AleXNetLit

“MANAGING KNOWLEDGE MEANS

MANAGING ONESELF.”

Peter Drucker

Photo Creditshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nakedtrust/5574747936/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/randa/270952848/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aafromaa/3027002824/in/set-72157608631840641

http://www.flickr.com/photos/way2go/3787721913/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/create-learning/3682590980/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbye/1215052987/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/perfectoinsecto/2632798204/

Photo Creditshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wiertz/5624285586/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mil8/2171507093/

http://www.jarche.com/key-posts/personal-knowledge-management/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62693815@N03/6277337422/

http://blogs.hbr.org/bigshift/2010/04/a-brief-history-of-the-power-o.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/info_grrl/5107772098/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aafromaa/3026998606/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/3060085598/

References

http://www.jarche.com/key-posts/personal-knowledge-management/

www.slideshare.net/Jack_Davis/perspectives-in-personal-knowledge-management

http://www.slideshare.net/kjjeannette/customizing-a-pathforusingsocialmediainextension

Personal Learning by Anne Mims Adrian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.

Anne Mims Adrian, PhD

Twitter: @aafromaa

aadrian@extension.org

slideshare.net/aafromaa

http://blog.anneadrian.com

OR Google me (I am very findable).