I was watching the PLN video posted for our Intro class today and I love the concept of not being the teacher, the sage on the stage, the know-it-all, but instead your personal learning concierge. I like it so much I may have to make a poster and put it in my classroom. It's such an amazing concept. I am not here to book your room, brush your teeth, deliver you room service, or turn down your bed, but I can help you get those things done.
Between this video and Tolis' (if you haven't seen it, check out his blog), its so much more apparent that we need to change the way we educate. I know its not going to happen over night, but I hope it will come soon. I don't arrange my classroom in the typical row by row style, I use technology as much as possible, but I still feel like I am not doing enough sometimes. It's hard to accomplish everything we have to do in a day. Like I love the idea of using the RSS feed and I have set this up, but its hard to read everything, everyday. I like some of the suggestions I found when searching about PLN's on Google, but please comment if you have a way you keep up to date with all the web info without going on information overload!
Erika - I found a link that helped me when trying to understand how to create a PLN:
ReplyDeletehttp://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html
It might have some useful information for you.