Networked Student

[makeiteasyable]

excellent vid.

[barb1840sp]

Thank you! Simply brilliant in its' simplicity and clarity. I want my teaching and my learning to match this process. And thanks for allowing us to use this video in educational settings. I plan on sharing this with faculty and students.

[deoat2]

when my girlfriend walked in i had to switch to porn

[yintibbies]

I have two seventh grade children. One is high functioning Autistic and the other is an honors student. They both love computers. I wish that the schools here would teach them about RSS feeds, readers, scholarly websites, discerning fact from crap on the web, etc. It would be awesome if they let them be a connected partner in learning. I agree that you should post another video of pitfalls to this approach. Love your video!

[2gobeyond]

This is great, I have been trying to push this in my high school classes. Think I will use your video to explain it to my students. Well done!

[antoniusjody]

Great Visualization. Simple yet meaningful. I'm trying to introduce the concepts of PLN to my fellow teachers and students in Indonesia. I hope you don't mind I use your Youtube video in helping explaining this concept :)

[wdrexler]

@antoniusjody Please feel free to use the video with your fellow teachers.

[tmalloff]

TY so much for this video. I've read your paper "The Networked Student Model for PLE's" in the Australasian Journal of EduTech. I'm hoping to use a very similar format for my InfoTech 9 students. A few years ago, I tried something similar--RSS feeds, iGoogle, blogging, but the concept was too foreign for the students. I believe the time is ripe, and our upcoming students (ie/ gr 7's) feel much more comfortable w experimenting with tech. Hopefully, we'll be able to blend iE-Portfolios with PLE's!

[ldawley]

This is an excellent overview of connected learning via social networks. Perfect for my class, thank you!

[bonsarts]

This is not a learning theory but a group process theory. Connectivism is about filtering information and not about actual cognitive or behaviorism. It isn't even constructivism where new meaning or true consensus achieved. It is like WOW, people sharing a same interest but employing strategies on how to assert their own position in the learning environment. The "concierge" reflects apprenticeship learning models which has some validity.

[wdrexler]

@bonsarts I understand your comment and recognize that there is considerable discourse around Connectivism as a learning theory. I would not focus just on group process theory, however. The focus here is on a personal autonomy in learning that includes connections with people. But, it also includes connections with content, synthesis of information, and knowledge management that arguably could combine multiple learning theories depending upon the individual learner.

[bonsarts]

This is not a learning theory but a group process theory. Connectivism is about filtering information and not about actual cognitive or behaviorism. It isn't even constructivism where new meaning or true consensus achieved. It is like WOW, people sharing a same interest but employing strategies on how to assert their own position in the learning environment.

[MiamiHeat87]

Great video. Thanks.

[infoliteracy1]

Exciting format for network learning. Simple, yet packed with "how to" info for 21st century learning.

[DrGarcia2010]

TY for this video. I'm and educational psychology prof & covered connectivism this past week. We didn't know about this video. :( Students struggled with the theory in abstraction. But... because I have a robust PLN via twitter I was turned-on to your video. Now I can post it to our course wiki to help my students transform the theory into practice. Excellent work. GG

[DrGarcia2010]

TY for this video. I'm and educational psychology prof & covered connectivism this past week. We didn't know about this video. :( Students struggled with the theory in abstraction. But... because I have a robust PLN via twitter I was turned-on to your video. Now I can post it to our course wiki to help my students transform the theory into practice. Excellent work. GG

[rwolburg]

Wow, nice job. Its a very illustrative explanations. Thanks

[nelliemuller]

Excellent presentation! 

[prosasxx]

simply amazing! the graphical representation show how we work in towards a community developed in the net. something unimaginable 20 years ago

[eannegrenoble]

Great video - thanks (but the du.. du.. de du.. wasn't up to the original :-)

[MikeandKari7]

This is really good, any way you could fix the audio? That would really make it great!

[davidds64]

¡Brilliant! Connectivism in Plain English ;-)

[realuniversity]

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[sendkathy]

Wonderful! You presented a convincing scenario with valid examples of the powerful benefits you've experienced as a student. You make it sound as if your class has reached the apex of teaching and learning! Might you present a critical view of the same scenario, projecting potential holes in the plan through the eyes of a less successful student? What would account for the differences in student experience?

[wdrexler]

Excellent comment. I actually hope to address some of these points as I implement this format with middle school students in the fall. Thank you for your input!

Wendy

[agyorke]

This could be a whole series of 2-3 minute videos about the networked student. The networked student and blogs. The networked students and podcasts. The networked students and RSS.

[wiwanca]

Thank Wendy and Alex! I really needed this explanation- it helped a lot to get the idea about connectivism! Lots of love from a Swedish networked student:)

[solotrekkers]

dude. this rocks!

[YoeFSantos]

Congratulations

[ruthmagdalen]

Id love to know what you think plenty in Feedly for filtering,monitoring,sharing,n­etworking,simplifying and time saving!

I'm thinking about blogs as eportfolios. Authentic alternative and performance assessment.

[ruthmagdalen]

I experience a blog as like the fulcrum to the whole thing.Input and OUTput. On several levels. Deep.Particularly when showing others the how tos. Great for students to show others the how and where and why/not-accoun tability is built in.There's the assessment.

Feedly may be a way of teacher to view student inputs/outputs for assessment in one space?

[wdrexler]

Thank you for your comment. We've been using iGoogle, but coincidentally I looked at Feedly for the first time today.

[ruthmagdalen]

Thanks I'll embed it into my Food Tech unit blog and my new edublog and see how I can embed it generally!!!

Ive been onto this idea for digital literacy with my original food trend blog but you've created a fab distillation. I'm so glad I've found this for overall unit design.Seriously real!

[soupnj]

I like the phrase I recently heard used to describe the role of teachers who support this - teacher as master learner. I heard it from David Warlick who didn't take credit for the phrase.

[aishaladon]

I like the way you presented it, with the small sheets of paper. Ive seen this done before. Is this what you had to get permission to use.

[wdrexler]

Yes. It's done in the same format as the Common Craft videos. I'm glad you liked it.

[tomshepp1]

Great job explaining Connectivism.

[locusSol]

This is all nice, but most teachers (in public schools at least) seem to need all the school time they can get to get kids prepped for standardized tests (odd considering how low those standards are).

Sometimes I feel kids are better off being home schooled...

[wdrexler]

Suzanne,

Please come back and share some of your new ideas and let me know how they work out. We're all in this together.

Wendy

[SuzanneWilliams2004]

Wow! Even as an online instructor, your video blew me away. My mind is reeling with ideas for new lessons and alternative assessments--thank you!

[mjhasley]

I agree with dotlizard from a few comments down. We have state tests where I teach that are so dominant, teachers just roll their eyes at this stuff. I work with teachers daily on tryiing to get them to learn and try out Web 2.0 things, but it's like pulling teeth.

[wdrexler]

I feel your pain to some extent. Assessment is a key issue in getting this into the mainstream. We really have to start thinking about alternative assessments. I do believe there are many networked learning techniques that can work within the current system. But, I hate to perpetuate the bigger concerns I have with high stakes testing. As they say, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. At the same time, with a little shift in mindset, it's easier than you think.

[petrjohansson]

Great work!

[smbfoyt]

Thank you! This video is a great inspiration for our home schooling plans.

[jocelynchappell]

Nice one

[dotlizard]

I just wanted to thank you for this, it's inspiring. I hope that our educational system can move away from 'standardizing' students, and make better use of the amazing social media tools out there to create a more engaging learning experience. I'd much rather see students taught how to learn, rather than have everybody learn how to fill in the boxes on the exact same tests.

[wdrexler]

I hope so, too. I think the more teachers experiment with networked learning, the more we'll learn about how our students can learn in this environment. I think it's very exciting!

[techszewski]

I'd also add checking comprehension to the changing role of the teacher for 21st century students. We assume that students have the skills to interpret the wealth of information that they find in their network, but often they're just collecting links. I see my main job as helping them extract the relevant information and making sure they're in the ball park of understanding on it. 21st century students still require the skills of 20th century.

[wdrexler]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

[john85710]

Great presentation. Unfortunately, many teachers are still highly suspect of online content.

[dalerrogers]

Great job. I teach multimedia at a community college. I'll share your presentation with my students.

[clifsnotes]

EXCELLENT work! Clear message, good graphic design/artwork, good video editing, and good humor.

[kgshriram]

Very nice. The best 5 minutes 9 seconds I have spent on youtube, thank you for creating quality content. And it works well on my internet connection too.

[teach42]

Excellent job! Well worth sharing.

[nononi286]

Great perspective~ I want to be a Network Sherpa when I grow up!

[ed4wb]

This needs to be shared with teachers, parents, students and administrators. Thanks for putting it together. Well done.

[NievesGlez]

and librarias

[ed4wb]

The librarians I work with consider themselves teachers. But point well-taken.

[NievesGlez]

Not only as teachers, but they have to define too their services taking into account the needs of the networked generation.

[lubeld]

Thanks for such a positive point of view!

[weywallace]

Love the low-tech approach to a high-tech concept. (Grinned at the graduation cap at the end!) Great video, clearly scripted and cleverly executed. I'd love to see links to a student's wiki or other capstone project to see someone who has actually studied a subject this way!

[samannzinnia]

Thanks!

[melazib]

Excelent job! Thank you.

Ciao

[techteach123]

Great video. Looking forward to hear what your students think about it.

[jaredkiwi88]

Great Video,

At first glance it seems as though the possibilities are endless. The sheer mass of content would allow a learner to be greatly advanced in comparison to previous generations.

Why does my intuition tell me that this new model of learning is floored? I like the smell of old paper that rises from a novel. I prefer the stentch of humanity to the efficiency of the cpu. The masses will lead you astray. Remember, he/she who walks alone paves the new path.

[wdrexler]

Loved your comment on The Networked Student. It gets me thinking. The smell of an old novel doesn't have to go away. As far as the CPU goes, it's allowing us to connect to far greater numbers of humanity with greater intellectual capital (and since we're online, the stench won't be an issue.) The masses WILL lead you astray unless you've learned how to disseminate good information from questionable. And finally, there are many paths to be paved in this new concept of learning.

[mikebogle]

Brilliant job :) Really easy to understand. Rest assured I've already used it to promote network learning in my department. Thanks for this!

[rheinardkorf]

Great Job!

[sarahmstewart]

Excellent video. A great resource to help me explain connectivism to my colleagues.

[leelefever]

Cool! I learned about the Networked Student! I wasn't aware of the concept before. Cheers!