One of our goals is to develop and strengthen our personal learning networks (PLNs). One of the things our new iPads can really help us with is connecting---to people, data, knowledge, expertise...
Please watch the videos below. What did you find interesting about them? What did you agree with or disagree with?
"Chance favors the connected mind." Steven Johnson
"The network is the learning." George Siemens
One of my favorite parts of George Siemens' video is when he says,
ReplyDelete"What we know today is not as important as our ability to stay current. So, if what I know today is going to change because knowledge changes rapidly; if I'm not continually learning, I am becoming obsolete in my particular field or within a particular knowledge space. There are different ways of trying to solve that through courses and through other means of learning but none are really as effective or as adaptive as a network because a network continually evolves and continually reforms itself."