today's edchat was on plns's influence.. 3 hours later - people are still rattling on about them.
cool jets.
@mrtownsley just gave this great insight and visual
PLN != online networks.
PLN = personal learning network
my take on his visual
pln = personal learning networks
we've always had and still do - but they are face to face - and a lot of times not even noticed as such, they are great nonetheless... a support system.. people that nudge you and you nudge them to be better than you would without them
pln!= online/virtual personal learning networks (i'm thinking he would be ok with me including the word hybrid here - as some still will be face to face - heck i included a whole slew of words that aren't his)
description of network above - but now on steroids... amped up a bit - because they now include virtual relationships, which means now i get to connect to people purely per passion, since i am no longer bound by geographythen - @shellterrell shared this gem i had not seen before.
notice @gsiemens comment about a networks being equiv to a degree program:
The first reference from George Siemens I find is September 30, 2003. "Most of us belong to more than one learning community. These multiple communities form a personal learning network. If a learning community equates somewhat with a course, then our learning network is equivalent to a degree program."
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I was in an interview today and was asked about my comfort and abilities with technology in education. I came dangerously close to selling myself short, because I've tried (and succeeded, apparently) to convince myself that a PLN is not made of tweets or blogs, but of real people. In the best of times, the technology that gives you access to those people becomes transparent.
very cool Raymond.
you get it.
they'd be silly not to hire you.
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