Professional studies 3A

Assignment Due date 29/03/2013

Tsatsi Sylvester Lebuajwang 200723014

Professional Learning Networks

The meaning of social and professional networks for education

Forming learning

network for competence development

Professional network

organizing

PLNs are deliberately formed networks of people and resources capable of guiding our independent learning goals and professional development needs.

Function of a pln

Social-oriented applications and professional networks - new opportunities for learners and educators W3C “Social Networks

Interoperability Roadmap” Incubator Group (XG)

Social-oriented applications and professional networks - new opportunities for learners and educatorsSocial networks

Social networks Social networks are online communities that allow

users to create a web presence, manage their identities, and stay connected to friends and colleagues. Social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn are among the most popular destinations on the web, with millions of users from around the globe signing up daily.

These sites are quickly evolving from mere public profiles into platforms for communication, creativity, advertising, and even commerce.

In the future The Five Trends We’ll Explore:1 | Show Them The Money.

Social Networks will force advertisers to engage consumers in new ways. 2 | Social Networks can Work Hard Too

Enterprise Social Networks will enhance productivity and innovation in the workplace. 3 | Map for Social Network Management

New applications will assist in visualizing, managing, synchronizing, and sharing information across multiple social networks. 4 | The Web Browser and Email Get Social

New social web users will emerge around alternatives to traditional social networks. 5 | A Smarter, Social, Semantic Web

Advanced Web applications will emerge to help users manage information and synchronize online activities with offline life.

Social-oriented applications and professional networks - new opportunities for learners and educators

There are many social networks that can be used by educators and learners

Building PLE on start pages

Stage of pln adoption

Stage 1 Immersion is where you immersion yourself into networks , trying everything online

Stage 2 Evaluation Evaluate your networks and start to focus in on which networks you really want to focus your time on.

Stage 3 Know it all Find that you are spending many hours trying to learn everything you can. Realize there is much you do not know and feel like you can’t disconnect.

Stage 4 Perspective Usually comes when you are forced to leave the network for awhile and spend time with family and friends who are not connectedly comes when you are forced to leave the network for awhile and spend time with family and friends who are not connected. Jennifer Carrier Dorman – http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ppln

Building PLE on start pagesPLEs are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning; managing both content and process; communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.

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• Of relationship and connections among peers and knowledge

• Of own opportunity for value-created involvement

IAware

•In engaging in informal knowledge exchange

•In revising/extending competence development objectives

IIInteres

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• In individual or collaborative learning

• In social and knowledge network activities

• In pro-actively contributing own insights and expertise

IIITrying engagi

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- To subject mater- To peers and educators- To another professionals

IVActively involved

and connecte

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Personal competence development objectives

Professional Network Organizing

More of the students who are deeply involved in the subject matter of the course and think in perspective are interested in:

more professional information contact to experts and specialists they joint to groups with special interests, professional networks they receive professional network services they can discuss interests stay informed share knowledge

Professional Network Organizing PLE as part of Personal Learning

Network and Professional Learning Network

P ro fe s s i o n a l N e t w o r k O rga n i z i n g

Personal Learning Environments

We are at present undergoing a deep and prolonged industrial revolution based on digital technologies

The reform and reshaping of social systems and institutions has tended to lag behind in periods of rapid technological change

Profound innovations in technology tend to be reflected in older paradigms

We have to review the industrial schooling model including the organization of institutions and pedagogy and curriculum

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