ITC: 45 – Using a Personal Learning Network to Fuel Your Lifelong Learning

How are you set for learning across your lifetime? Have you set up your personal learning network (PLN)? A PLN is an intentional strategy to gather, organize, analyze, and share information that feeds one’s lifelong learning needs.

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Formal education will only take us so far. We need to create a system to help us learn across our lifetime. A personal learning network (PLN) and environment do exactly that. With a PLN, you are setting up systems to help you collect information, make sense of it, and share it with others. Naturally, a key component of this system is collaborating with others. A good PLN will help you achieve this and more.

In this episode, I am going to discuss personal learning networks and environments. You will discover not only the benefits but we will also touch on ideas for collecting content as well as sharing discoveries. This will be the first of a multipart series where I go deeper into helping you create a PLN that will fuel your learning for your lifetime.

Additional Reading

• ITC: 35 – Using the Twitter Backchannel in Your Classroom
• ITC: 34 – Using Twitter to Fuel Your Personal Learning Network
• Lots of Great Activity at the #NexConf
• Book Review: Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network
• How I Share as Part of the Seek – Sense – Share Framework
• How I Make Sense as Part of the Seek – Sense – Share Framework
• How I Seek as Part of the Seek – Sense – Share Framework
• Helping Students Develop Personal Learning Networks
• Professional and Personal Learning Networks
• How to cultivate a personal learning network: Tips from Howard Rheingold
• My daily PKM routine (practices and toolset)
• How Do I Get a PLN?
• Stages of PLN adoption
• Personal Learning for Learning Professionals – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective
• Power Up Your Professional Learning Network
• On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspects
• Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them
• The Social Impact of Personal Learning Environments
• Personal Learning Environments
• Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment
• The 21st Century Educator
• Personal Learning Environments and Vygotsky

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