K12 Online Conference Reflection #19

This is my reflection on the K12 Online conference presentation:

Professional Learning Networks
“Changing a System: Network Centric Learning Communities”

by James Folkestad

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

What were the main points made during this session, the “takeaways?”

1. Changing the setting
2. Organization systems
3. Characters in the system
4. Collaboration and collective action skills may help us survive an avalanche of change
5. We will build a new environment of networking and collaborating.
6. Industrial era learning was isolated,, disconnected, and discarded topic students were interested in.
7. Students now discover they like curiousity, connected, networked learning.
8. The new skills with be creating and sharing.
9. Networked collaboration through social networks.

In terms of your own professional development, what did you gain from the session?

Networked systems perform much more efficiently than bureaucratic organizations.
Part 2 explained with words while demonstrating with pictures what is networked learning and why we need it.
Decentralizing and aggregating help us adapt to change.
Aggregation very simple to do through RSS.

What questions did you have after this presentation?

He is talking about businesses. How do network systems apply to schools? Oh.
The antiquated system is clunky. How do we make it more nimble?

How will you apply the learning to your professional situation?
I will have to use other Web 2.0 tools instead of Ning, since my students are not yet 13.
I could use Think.com as a social learning space and Moodle or a page on our class wiki to aggregated various feeds.

What other resources (including reading material) are relevant to this session?

http://switchspace.wikispaces.com
http://switchspace.blogspot.com

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