personal learning
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Presented at the North Central Leadership Conference May 2012TRANSCRIPT
Personal Learning
Anne Mims Adrian, PhD
Social Media Strategist
Military Families Learning Network
@aafromaa
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
slideshare.net/aafromaa
http://blog.anneadrian.com
OR Google me (I am very findable).