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Personal Learning Networks

  • Remington Landis
  • Sep 11, 2017
  • 2 min read

Welcome to my blog! This is a place where I will post about different subjects relating to teaching and education. For my first blog post I will be discussing Personal Learning Networks, or PLN's.

Now by this time I'm sure you're wondering what a personal learning network is?

Well, a personal learning network is an organization that consists of all of the people a learner will interact with and acquire all their knowledge from while they are in their environment of learning. In an article titled, learning at your service, C. Bonk defines a personal learning network as an opportunity to build, tinker with, and share information that might be of value to a growing knowledge base, community of practice, or open access digital repository (Bonk, 328).

I decided to bring in a quote from one of my favorite teaching websites because I feel as though it embodies Personal Learning Networks perfectly.

“A Personal Learning Network is a way of describing the group of people that you connect with to learn their ideas, their questions, their reflections, and their references. Your PLN is not limited to online interactions, but it is that online, global interactive part that really makes it special. It is personal because you choose who’s part of that group; you choose if you want to lurk–just check out what people are saying–or if you share; because you choose when to do so, and how to do so.”

-Teach thought staff

So going off of that quote, a personal learning network is similar to the way that people by connecting with other people who share similar interests and goals in life. An interesting point to think about, that I will leave you wondering in this blog post is how personal learning networks will develop and change as technology advances. Will the evolution of technology have a large impact on personal learning networks?

References:

Siemens, G. (2014, March 4). Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. Retrieved September 9, 2017.

Bonk, C. (2009) The World Is Open. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Images Retrieved From:

https://www.google.com/search?q=personal+learning+network&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9m8-qjJzWAhUH2WMKHUb3BlUQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=631#imgrc=1XIa7m99fPXdFM:


 
 
 

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P E X

Professional Exhibition 

My Plan For The PEX...

My plan for the night: I have several ideas of how I want the night of the Professional Exhibition to run. First off I believe I would like to read my post above titled: Keep Going, Keep Growing. I believe that  this is a very powerful written piece that does a nice job of expressing what I value to be important within the profession of teaching. I will then plan to explain and present my artifact. I will fully answer the question of, "what is your work." I will then show my artifact which will be a short video. I plan to then give another small summative explanation of how my artifact reiterates what my work is as a teacher. I will then thank everyone for coming and take any questions the audience may have.

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My artifact: For my artifact I have decided to use an app called, “one second a day,” to document one small moment from every single day while student teaching. At the end of this semester I will then combine these pictures and one-second long videos into a short clip that will be a collage my small moments while student teaching. I have always been someone to try to capture and document everything and I feel as though this artifact will show my growth as a teacher and will help to answer the question, “what is my work.” Some pictures and videos may be of my students and some may be of the preparation and materials we use everyday, but every picture will have a story behind it. I am hoping to have the video be at least a minute long since the duration of student teaching is 75 days long. Depending on how the final video turns out I will either slow down the pictures for later viewing or I will play the video at least a few times to really get the full impact of the images.

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