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LEARNing To LEARN, the PracTICE
With ALL that mass of information which WE get on each day in OUR technology driven Digital World, with the messages from Social Media through OUR PLN (Personal [Professional] Learning Network), there is a MUST to organize OUR LEARNing! WE MUST unlearn the OLD and learn to learn differently as that was the case twenty years ago!
WE are lucky, Social Media has emerged a lot of different tools which WE can use to organize OUR learning and to have access to it in the cloud, no need to have the learning stuff with us. WE find everything ONLINE and WE can build OURSELVES learning space, ALSO! ALL we need to do is to tinkering a bit around with different tools and merge them together to build ONE tool from whom WE will profit to learn at our own pace!
I will present to YOU a way who makes it very easy to organize YOUR learning and ALSO to provide YOU the way how you can learn on a very effective and efficient way. WE will learn about curation, PKM and the use of ThingLink, that are the three components WE need. Through “Curation“, “Social Media” and a “PLN” WE are on ===> Collaboration <===, it’s NOT anymore the “ME”, BUT the “WE”!
As MOST is build around ===> Student Centered LEARNing <=== check below to learn more, please:
I intend to present different blog posts with different possibilities on ===> LEARNing To LEARN <===, this one is the first one of a series still to come…
Remember THAT in 21st Century EDUcation it is about ===> Student Centered EDUcation <===, Check below for more information:
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Let’s Start With Curation, What Is Curation And How To Use It?
I will try to explain to YOU in one sentence WHAT ===> Curation is <===: it is doing a research on the internet by using YOUR ===> Critical THINKing <===, analyzing the found and making a selection of ONLY the BEST found which YOU annotate THEN with YOUR personal reflections and THEN share it with YOUR ===> PLN <===. This is BETTER than looking ONLY on research results from the major search engines as it is filtered by humans with THEIR insights! Check below, please, for the How-To.
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Credits to : http://www.curata.com
Learn more:
- http://blog.scoop.it/2011/11/30/lord-of-curation-series-gust-mees/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation
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What Is A PLN And How To Work With It?
Well, I will NOT talk too much about it, BUT will let YOU watch some videos and the image below. So YOU can make YOURSELVES your personal view about it 😉 BTW: I use my “PLN” for updating my ===> Professional Development <===, to make friendships, to connect globally, for coaching and for ===> Global Collaboration <===. PLN’s are MOSTLY created through ===> Social Media <===!
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Check ALSO the videos below, please.
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Personal Learning Networks for Educators
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PLN how to build one!
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What is a PLN
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Importance of a PLN in Education
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Learn more:
- Curation about “PLN”:
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What is PKM?
“PKM” means ===> Personal [Professional] Knowledge Management <===, it is THE way how people can (and SHOULD) OWN OUR knowledge, THE way on How-To organize OUR LEARNing. It isn’t actually that difficult as it seams;) It is ONLY THE habit to know How-To do it, so WHAT are YOU waiting for to adapt for a BETTER way of LEARNing, follow the steps below, please 😉
OUR “PKM” is depending MOSTLY from OUR “PLN” in the 21st Century as it is related to ===> Social Media <=== (Twitter, Facebook and…) because WE GET most information from THEM!
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What is ThingLink and how to use it?
Some PracTICE To Foster Creativity
There are a multitude of tools which WE could use to foster the creativity of the learners, such as “Story Telling“, coding with Scratch and other programs, comics, and interactive images with links and videos such as “ThingLink“, which I will present here with some practical examples. Below my curation about ThingLink where YOU can first read about it for a better understanding:
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- My curation about ThingLink-1
- My curation about ThingLink-2
- My ThingLink Creations
- ThingLink’s Homepage
- Learn more about ThingLink
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First of all, please let me tell YOU this: to engage YOUR learners show THEM some practical examples and let THEM play around with them. THEY will have understood then what it is about and THEN YOU ask them to create THEMSELVES a new interactive image with ThingLink, a private one. One from where THEY will get some profit for THEIR private life; such as e.g. my vacation trip (preparation) such as I did here ===> Schwarzwald | Black Forest | Forêt Noire (DE) | Europe <===, my Garden (for nature lovers) as I did here ===> My Wild Garden | Panorama View With Localisation Of The Flowers <===, for people who playing sports competitions and/or visiting them, such as I did here ===> Darts-Clubs in Luxembourg | FLD-2013 <===, where is my favorite music band and/or singer playing its next concert?, creating its OWN “PKM” (Personal [Professional] Knowledge Management) and/or courses, such as I Did here ===> Skills needed in the 21st Century from Educators, Teachers <===, and here ===> Learning IT-Security <===, … Well, let YOUR imagination flow to find more examples, I am sure YOU will find a lot 😉 Let it GO, let it FLOW!
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THE PracTICE, An Example
Check the screenshots below, please, how I announced a practical example on Twitter and follow it by ===> Deep Thinking <===!
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In the above mentioned way of LEARNing (Project Based Learning), the students will learn about “Sustainability” while walking in the nature by using their smartphones to take photos and videos and/or are using a professional photo machine and will discover so the nature and the fauna and flora. They will learn how to take photos (golden rule / Goldener Schnitt), learning about gardening, learning to make online searching for the photographed flowers, animals, insects, learning to make curation of their search results, learning to create their own PKM (Personal [Professional] Knowledge Management), learning to love the nature and animals, learning to create Slideshows, learning to upload a video on Youtube, creating blogs…
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Being Able To Use Different Techniques And Tools Combined To Express A Whole Entity Is “Learning To Learn”
Please find below a reminder to understand what the world needs for abilities from students in 21st Century:
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By using the above mentioned techniques and advice, YOU will be able to understand WHAT ===> #LEARNing2LEARN <=== is and How-To forward it to YOUR learners (students). Through those learning techniques with #PracTICE and engagement THEY will be prepared for the 21st Century needed abilities from the workforce. THEY are ready NOW for ===> Life-Long-LEARNing <===. Here below an PracTICE example for LEARNing about ===> Digital CitizenShip <===.
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Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post: Organization, curation,learning while curating, reading before and while curating, PKM, Personal Knowledge Management, ThingLink, Blog,
Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉
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EDU: Digital CitiZENship, CyberSecurity, eSkills, Modern EDU by Gust MEES 