Sunday, October 14, 2012

Blog Post Assignment #7

1. The Networked Student



The Network Student by Wendy Drexler explains what it is a network student and identifies the role of the teacher in the classroom of the network student. The network students are activity using social networking tools, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, search engines, etc.


I think the network students learn by the use of networking. Our PLN (Personal Learning Network) is consisted of family, friends, classmates, and other teachers. Now, PLN of 
students with technology becomes much 
larger and includes a great number of resources. Their community is not limited. With network, through some SNS (social network service), teachers can connect with master and/or special teachers in world, and share ideas resources, lesson plans, students’ feedback, methods of assessments, and so on. Additionally, students can connect with teachers and other students. They are still using their community to learn and develop. it becomes a global community now.



The global PLN helps our learning process. It provides meaningful and useful information, it provides support, motivation, and allows connections to be made. The PLN is not only about technology and websites, but about people. People with network help others learn. I think it is still important for the network students to have a teacher and/or professional instructor. Teachers can teach their students how to assess the information and evaluate the information for its creditability. Additionally, they can provide emotional support, encourage their students to learn and build confidence, and give their students advises to lectures and questions to them.





That's amazing video. Her PLN is different from mine. Her PLN is consisted of networking including resources, ideas, and search. She can learn by mastering technology. She do not use any papers, pens... However, I learn based on professors' lectures and on line. Actually, I need teachers who teach me face on face. In the future, students will have PLN with technology and networking like her PLN.













Picture: newamericamedia.org



2 comments:

  1. Keiko,

    You made some great points in your post! I agree that my PLN is also quite different from the seventh grader's. It amazes me how much freedom in the learning process her teacher is able to give his students! It is definitely very inspiring! You have completed the whole assignment and included links to the videos. However, your pictures do not have titles telling the source. The only aspect of the post that needs to be improved is the grammar. Here are a few mistakes that I caught:

    "The Network Student by Wendy Drexler explains what it is a network student" - Make sure you watch your verb tenses. "Network" should be "networked." Also, "it" should be left out.

    "It provides meaningful and useful information, it provides support, motivation, and allows connections to be made." - Watch out for run-on sentences. You could divide this into two sentences after the word "information.

    "That's amazing video." - Maybe add "an" after "that's" to make the sentence flow better.

    Overall, I think you did a great job, and I think it is so awesome that you are from Japan!

    -Kaitlyn

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  2. Hi Keiko,

    I want to point out some very good thoughts that you presented: You said, "The global PLN helps our learning process. It provides meaningful and useful information, it provides support, motivation, and allows connections to be made." I think this is a very important and valuable aspect of the networked student! Thanks for pointing that out!

    Kaitlyn has some valuable advice for grammar for your post, so look and see how to make your post better.

    Keep up the hard work!

    Stephen Akins

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