personal learning networks. vanas

Personal Learning Networks

Ana Valentina Chavez

EBV

Why?

Why?

• Gap between how we learned and how we teach today

• The urge to stay current

• The transformation of our practice

The open bubble

Personal Learning Network

PLN

• Informal

• Free

• Independent

• Appealing

The importance of the P

Significance

Filters

1.0 2.0

1.0 & 2.0

1.0

“I consume”

2.0

“I create and share”

… but how?

The struggle

• When am I going to have the time to sit and write a post?

• It’s impossible to read all tweets.

• I barely have any time to plan a lesson And grade,

when will I have the time to tweet or blog?

The importance of the P

You create your own rules.

Schedule

Twitter Lists

Automatic posts

Filters

The 2.0 Teacher and the newborn PLN

Simple

Quick Micro blogging

Conversations

More Twitter

• Class communication

• Student tweets

• Teacher tweets

• Parents are informed

• Engaging teacher-student and student-student interaction

Blogging

• Global connections

• Social skills

• Authentic audience

• Social skills

• Home – School

• Classroom community

• Literacy

Blogging – 1 way…

Teachers’ learning

1. Join a conversation 2. Share your thoughts 3. Engage in discussions

Blogging – 1 way…

Main source of brand new content

Blogging – the other way…

Class blog

1. Define the purpose 2. Plan for content 3. Start posting

Facebook pages

Class page

1. Define the purpose 2. Plan for content 3. Start posting

Are you ready to become 2.0?