Blog Post #7

The Networked Student is about a high school student who has branched outside of the traditional classroom setting. He owns no textbook; he does not sit and listen to the teacher give lectures. He does not even sit and take notes. He simply takes control of his own learning. This video demonstrates the various tools technology has to offer and the connections the student has made.
The student now has a more positive outlook on school. The Networked Student is now allowed to learn on his own time and research topics that are interesting to him.

This is a type of learning we experience in EDM310. He can make the connections he feels will best benefit him. The student not only interacts with fellow classmates, but he can now take it a step further and interact with professors.
The teacher’s duty is to guide her networking students. She helps them in their dilemmas, not solve them for the student. She makes the learning experience more worthwhile for her student. One example would be, turning a web search into a scavenger hunt. Her main objective is for her student to apply his/her obtained information into their everyday life.

The Seventh Grader’s Personal Learning Environment (PLN)

The Seventh Grader’s PLN was very organized. She included links that were helpful to her and that she would need later. This PLN allowed her to credit where she got pictures and information from. It also allows her to share her information with other students openly. It was arranged so that her schoolwork tiles were arranged at the bottom of the PLN, and the tiles relating to social networks and other things arranged at the top.

I have my PLN arranged by row; the first row is what I use strictly for EDM310, the second row consists of a combination for what I use for EDM310 as well as my personal life, third row is what I will use when I become a teacher it is also color coded pink with alphabet symbols, and the last row is for my personal use only.