Social media: Make it work for you

Karen Melhuish

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Warning!

This is NOT about technology!

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

Connect to learn….

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 "Communities of practice are our first knowledge-based structures”

(Wenger, McDermott & Snyder, 2002)

By Isherb (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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A successful learner….Drives their own learning

Can connect with and relate to others

in communities

Ask questions and pursue answers

Reflect on their progresstowards goals

Today, with the complementary nature of sociocultural theory and

collaborative learning tools, learning is…fundamentally social and derived

from authentic engagement with others in a community of practice

(Bonk & Cunningham, 1998 citing Kahn, 1993)

Anyone can connect, share, collaborate, negotiate, relate to others, exchange ideas, participate, debate, discuss to learn….

EasilyGloballyAnytime

AnywhereFor free

Your personal learning network#tag

Filter Search

http://www.studyit.org.nz

Find your focus

Reflect. Connect.Reflect some more…

http://alicepyne.blogspot.com/

Your Purpose

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The People

Art by Terry Dodson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men | http://www.offsitedatabackup.com/blog/index.php/2010/10/internet-privacy-the-venn-diagram/

The Process

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Passport_to_the_World.png

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

Nancy White, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006