This document discusses personal learning networks (PLNs) and their importance in education. It provides quotes from several experts on the topic. Joi Ito argues that education is no longer about centralized instruction, but establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. George Siemens describes learning as foraging for knowledge when and where it is needed, driven by real life rather than theory. The document presents a framework for PLNs including presence, curation, communities, information streams, and personal hubs/collections. It encourages the reader to become a node in the author's network.

1. PERSONAL
LEARNING
NETWORKS
JOYCE SEITZINGER
WINDESHEIM HONOURS
PROGRAMME ON SOCIAL
INNOVATION
4 OCTOBER 2014

2. @CATSPYJAMASNZ
SLIDESHARE.NET/CATSPYJAMAS

4. #help?

5. -JOI ITO
I DON’T THINK THAT EDUCATION
IS ABOUT CENTRALIZED INSTRUCTION
ANYMORE;
RATHER, IT IS THE PROCESS [OF]
ESTABLISHING ONESELF AS
A NODE IN A BROAD
NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY.

6. People live their lives and learn ACROSS
MULTIPLE SETTINGS, and this holds true
not only across the span of our lives but also
across and within the institutions and
communities they inhabit – even classrooms,
for example. I take an approach that urges me
to consider the SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP
across these boundaries as PEOPLE,
TOOLS AND PRACTICES TRAVEL
THOUGH DIFFERENT AND EVEN
CONTRADICTORY CONTEXTS AND
ACTIVITIES.
-KRIS GUTIERREZ

7. As a function of the environment,
THE LEARNER FORAGES FOR
KNOWLEDGE when and where it is
needed. Real life, not theory, drives
this learning type. … We connect and
bring together numerous elements
and activities, CONSTANTLY
SHAPING AND CREATING OUR
UNDERSTANDING AND
KNOWLEDGE."
-GEORGE SIEMENS

8. NETWORK
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
PERSONAL LEARNING

9. -ALEC COUROS

10. about the tools

11. about the people
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13. A PLN FRAMEWORK

14. PRESENCE CURATION
COMMUNITIES
INFORMATION
STREAMS
PERSONAL HUB COLLECTIONS

16. Social curation is: “the discovery, selection,
collection and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual
for a social purpose such as learning,
collaboration, identity expression or
community participation.”
- Joyce Seitzinger
Artefacts
Discovery
SelecDon
CollecDon
Sharing

17. PRESENCE CURATION
COMMUNITIES
INFORMATION
STREAMS
PERSONAL HUB COLLECTIONS

18. BOUNDED V OPEN ONLINE SPACES
-CATHERINE CRONIN

19. MANY PLACES TO DOCK YOUR PLN

24. BE A NODE IN MY NETWORK!
Joyce Seitzinger
@catspyjamasnz
@academictribe
joyceseitzinger@gmail.com
academictribe.co

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Mixing
Panel:
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Moodleman:
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Julian
Ridden
Bonsai
Tree:
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rofi
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Fire hydrant: cc
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Will
Lion:
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Networked
Teacher:
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Alec
Couros:
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Inara’s
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