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Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Personal learning environments

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[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]

I found this map of Ray Sims’ personal learning environment via a link from Stephen Downes (thanks, Stephen!). It’s a neat idea. I’m guessing that it would be pretty informative to ask K-12 teachers and administrators to diagram their own personal learning environments and then have some discussion around some key questions:

What sources do we tap into for our own professional learning?

What overlaps are there between staff members?

What gaps are there within our school organization (i.e., what learning channels should we be monitoring but aren’t)?

What are some strategies for staying on top of the incredible wealth of information that is out there?

How do we learn about new learning channels?

How are we modeling ‘lifelong learning’ for our students?

and so on…

This is cool. I may try to create my own map and see what it looks like. How about you? What does your personal learning environment look like?

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