The Connected Educator Chapter 6 Summary - Tyler Tarabocchia
The main idea in Chapter 6 of The Connected Educator is personal learning networks. These networks help people obtain more knowledge through other people. This can also be seen as connections or relationships. With these connections with other people, these communities grow and help people learn and become leaders. "[Personal learning Networks] consist of streams of people, information, expertise, learning objects, and images that are of interest to you" (Nussbaum-Beach and Hall 92). The benefit of having a personal learning network is the ability to learn from other people that share a similar goal and gather knowledge and ideas from them. From there, you can pass on that newly learned knowledge or just continue to learn from others; that's what makes learning communities so great. Finding the right community is also important to note when trying to find a personal learning network. Depending on who you follow can change the whole focus of your personal network. To sta...
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