What Is Your Network Identity?
Watch some University of Southampton students talk about their approach to managing their network identity. Network Identity Having grown our network by making reliable new connections, we should think about …
Course: Learning in the Network Age
Goodbye!
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Task: create your own Personal Learning Network map
Now it is time for you to create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) map. To create your PLN map, you will need to complete a survey. It will ask …
It’s over to you!
This week is over to you and your Personal Learning Network. There are lots of links to tools, services, articles and information throughout this week. Some of you may be …
Reflect on your learning
As a learner, what actions will you take to develop your Personal Learning Network? As an educator, how will what you have learnt help to inform your online teaching practice? …
Task: how would you advise this student?
Scenario: while having coffee one morning, a classmate complained to her friend: “I can’t concentrate during lectures – they’re boring for me – so I just go on social media …
What you explored this week
This week has been all about you discovering some of the issues to keep in mind when learning in a networked way, exploring a range of resources and developing your …
Activating your network
Now that you have spent time growing and contributing to your learning network, it is ready for action. We all have our preferred ways of activating our learning network, so …
Digital creation, presentation and scholarship
It is important to remember that in network terms we have to give before we can get. In other words, we should aim to add ‘value’ to our network by …
Data Literacy
The Web provides abundant possibilities to connect to information and people when trying to grow your learning network, and it is vital that we evaluate the reliability of them effectively. …
Information Literacy
We might also grow our network by making new connections to people, organisations, services and (non-media) information sources (on and offline). This means we should consider: How to find new …
Media Literacy
It may sound obvious, but if we only have a small learning network, our opportunities for learning may be correspondingly smaller. Therefore, we have to proactively invest in growing our …
Reflection
What have you found to be good, useful or interesting this week? What actions will you now take to learn more about these topics? What questions, if any, have arisen …
What is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
We all regularly interact with a network of our preferred people, digital devices, information sources and services, both online and offline. We use this network in different contexts, such as …
Connectivism
The final picture represents our last learning theory – called Connectivism, (although there is still some debate about whether this is an extension of Social Constructivism for the network age, …