Experimenting with different online learning opportunities which take advantage of the affordances of openly networked online social technologies underpins my approach to learning and teaching. Just as I encourage participants in the subjects that I teach as part of the Master of Education at QUT to take a leap into unknown online spaces, I try […]
Tag: “connected learning”
Out with the old: Using a Twitterchat as a formal learning strategy
This semester I am teaching LCN600 Connected Learning, as part of the Master of Education course at Queensland University of Technology. This course explores online connected and networked learning. Students are first challenged to map and analyse a connected learning environment through the lens of the Connected Learning Framework by Ito et.al, (2013). They are […]
Connected Learning: Resources for educators
To support the webinar I recently presented with Eduwebinar, I have curated a small collection of resources for educators wishing to learn more about Connected Learning. This collection focuses on the Connected Learning Framework presented by Mimi Ito and colleagues, and includes a series of open access readings and reports, as well as three book […]
The online Book Club – A connected learning experience?
The online book club is a fairly new concept to me, and one that I have been exploring through a variety of channels. My first exposure to an online book club was early this year, when I came across the book club that is run by Bryan Alexander. Bryan is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, […]
Designing a connected future – A keynote for the UQ Cyberschool Seminar
On Friday 20 July I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote for the UQ Cyberschool Seminar, which is an annual professional learning event for educators, with a particular focus for teacher librarians. I have included my presentation below, and also have put together some resources to support the ideas that I discussed. Many of the […]
How do you connect?
Following up on my previous post explaining the theoretical underpinnings of personal (professional) learning networks, I have put together a two part vlogcast and created an infographic to capture some of the information I have gathered through my doctoral research exploring how teachers experience professional learning through personal learning networks. My findings have revealed the […]
PLNs: Theory and Practice
As many of you will know, my PhD research is exploring the concept of PLNs and networked and connected learning, by investigating how teachers experience professional learning through their own PLNs. This post is based upon my research, and was created in part because I was asked by the lovely Dr Mandy Lupton to prepare a […]
Supercharge your PLN – Part Two
Following from my previous post, which explored how you might use hashtags to supercharge your PLN, this post will continue looking at ways to enhance your learning through the PLN, this time exploring the importance of connections. Learning through a PLN is inherently social. If we listen to what George Siemens and David Weinberger say, […]
Why education is challenged by Artificial Intelligence
Feature image “Electric Neuron” flickr photo by philosophy_rebel shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license It’s not what you think. We will not be sending our children to schools staffed completely by robots anytime soon. While the huge processing capacity of AI may mean that robots will have access to unthinkable amounts of data within mere […]
Innovate or Transform…
21st Century Digital… What? We are seventeen years into the ’21st century’, but for education, I’m not sure that we realise this yet. There is shared agreement that schooling in its current form, is not necessarily synonymous with learning, nor preparing students for what Jan Owen,CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians, says is a […]