The Power of Personal Learning Networks: How Social Networking Can Transform Organizational Learning and School Culture

1. The Power of Personal Learning Networks:
How Social Networking Can Transform
Organizational Learning and School Culture

3. ground· swell (groundswl) n
1. A broad deep undulation of the ocean, often
caused by a distant storm or an earthquake.
2. A sudden gathering of force.

4. 1999 2011

6. New Workforce

7. Toby Language
Learning
Culture of Learning
Organization

8. Learning Community Vs.
Community of Pratice

9. New Infomration
Landscape

10. If we look back on this 50
years from now

11. We’re going to address:
— What is a PLN and how do educators become use
them?
— Why is it imperative that we change the paradigm?
— Are school innovation factories?
— Do teachers feel they have the ability to be creative?
— What is organizational learning (performance)?
— What does this have to do with school culture?

12. Cont…
— How social technologies connect people to ideas
— The history of knowledge and what to do with it
today?
— Teaching and learning in an error of disruptive
innovation.

13. What’s happening today?
— Current Economy
— Concerns about sustainability
— Use of technology in teaching and learning
— Incredible pressure to succeed despite diminishing
resources

14. I don’t even know, what I
don’t know!

15. Twitter
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18. Some BIG
shifts, caused
by new trends,
to which many
view as
problems, are
really new
opportunities.

21. The Myths of Internet Filtering
1. Accessing YouTube is not
violating CIPA rules.
2. Websites don’t have to be
blocked for teachers.
3. Broad filters are not helpful.
Schools will not lose E-rate
funding.
4. Kids need to be taught how to
be responsible digital
citizens. Department of Education’s
Director of Education Technology,
5. Teachers should be trusted. Karen Cator

22. How Social Media Transforms Professional Learning?
— What does it mean to be a learning organization?
How can technology and social media improve
organizational learning? Is there a strategic planning
component to all of this? Learning, supported by
social networking and other collaborative tools, will
help to construct and share new knowledge in an
accelerated and more engaging format. Successful
and sustainable outcomes will depend on educators’
knowledge of these tools, their passion to learn, and
the support and guidance to do so.

24. The Scoop on Twitter

29. The Current Context

30. The people in charge
of leading school
organizations into the
21st century …
often are the
least knowledgeable
about the 21st century.
dangerouslyirrelevant.org

31. If the leaders
don’t get it,
it’s not going
dangerouslyirrelevant.org
to happen.

32. “My Teachers”

33. What are you
learning about?

35. Thomas L. Friedman

36. Sir Kenneth Robinson

37. Tony Wagner

38. Clayton M. Christensen

39. John Kotter

40. What should learning look
like?
— Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting
change in human performance or performance
potential…[which] must come about as a result of
the learner’s experience and interaction with the
world.

41. What should learning look
like?
— Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting
change in human performance or performance
potential…[which] must come about as a result of
the learner’s experience and interaction
with the world.

42. IS THIS THE EXPERIENCE WE WANT?

43. The Networked Student

46. A Working Definition of
PLN
A personal or professional learning network (PLN)
involves an individual’s topic-orientated goal, a set of
practices & techniques aimed at attracting and
organizing a variety of relevant content sources,
selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish
a professional goal or personal interest.
-David Warlick

47. An idea can turn to dust or magic depending
upon the creative talent that rubs against it.
Now. Unleash the Magicians!
- Bill Bernbach

48. Some Important Questions

52. Meet Fred

55. How about a different look at this? People
are happier when they contribute to the
system. – daler bucks