For this assignment I had to follow 5 people on twitter who were interested in education and posted valuable information that I can utilize and learn from as an aspiring teacher. I also did this with my delicious account. I was required to participate in a twitter chat; I chose #edchat where I joined many of other professional to discuss a topic on education. I also had to join a digital discussion forum; I chose The Educators PLN, where I get to connect with many other educators.
Journal #7- My Personal Learning Network
1. My personal learning network is a tool for professional growth. I am able to use it as a resource for my needs as a student and an aspiring teacher. I am able to find ideas from others who may be experts in a subject that I am unfamiliar with; such a technology in the classroom. The topic discussed in the #edchat that I participated in was: “Is education broken or just outdated”. I found it hard to follow the conversation because so many tweets were coming in so fast. Several people appeared to be having conversations with each other. I learned that many people are negative about our school system. Not many of the tweeters had good things to say about the quality of our education system. I also learned that many believe we are educating our students to be good factory workers. I didn’t tweet but if I did I would have tried to gear the conversation away from bashing the school system and onto how to adjust so we can teach our students in the best possible manner under these current conditions.
2. My personal learning network on Twitter is a group of people I chose to follow, who have the same interest in education as I do. Participating in this PLN gives me the opportunity for further learning. I am able to view data and information posted by my peers in my network, and care share in their wisdom and knowledge.
3. Delicious is a social bookmarking web service that I use for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. I explored tags of my interest to search for people to add to my delicious network. I added these people to my network because I believe that they will bookmark articles and sites that will be useful for me. I tagged a few sites PLN. The sites that I tagged were all education related. They focus on different aspects of education that I personally find to be very important. One site is dedicated to keeping kids moving. It is a great resource for teachers who are looking to incorporate health and physical education into their classroom and curriculum. I tagged a few other sites PLN that have great links to articles about incorporating technology into the classroom. I tagged a site that gave a lesson on teaching tolerance for ADHD and kids with dyslexia. My favorite PLN tag was one that gave feedback to a student teacher on her first day of teaching. I think every student looking to become a teacher should print this out and study it.
4. I joined the The Educators PLN digital discussion forum. I watched a video titled Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy; I was mainly attracted to this video because it was a Prezi, and I had never heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy before. In summary Bloom’s taxonomy was a hierarchical classification of educational objectives that are key the key to understanding the learning process. Benjamin Bloom developed this in 1956. In 2001, Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl reformed Bloom’s taxonomy because we are teachers to different kinds of students know. The students we are teaching were referred to as “digital natives,” teachers were referred to as “digital immigrants.” The main point is that technology and collaboration is essential for our 21st century students.
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