This is the first day of a 30 day personal record of how using twitter impacts my personal learning and professional development.
Some will be significant, some won’t, some will be just be downright amusing, because the folks on twitter all seem to have a sense of humour. (uk spelling, due to uk schools)
This experiment encapsulates many goals.
To write more often on this blog, this gives me focus.
To teach a personal learning network course, this will provide a record of activity.
To capture all the great synchronistic info twitter brings.
To contribute to the network daily.
To give credit, other twitterers do not know how their tweets impact others.
To trust that the sum of 30 days will be greater than each individual post.
The professional development that is provided at my place of work for teachers, while it has merit, it is pale in comparison to the pln I am surrounded by in twitter.
Today, I followed a tweet by @willrich45 to attend an impromptu (one day notice) elluminate session/discussion on 21st century literacy, its meaning and whether it contains anything new.
You can follow the link to find out more about the discussion. wiki here.
Over 80 passionate educators were in the “room” and it was energizing to be able to share in the experience and listen to the audio, while reading and writing in the chatroom. As one participant suggested that is a new literacy in itself.
The gist of the conversation was “Has the definition of literacy changed as the term 21st century literacies would suggest?” The conversation veered around from literacies vs skills to school vs learning. This doesn’t do the conversation justice.
Will Richardson asked
“…what literacy is, is it more than reading? Reading people? Reading networks? Building personal learning networks?”
Next steps might be to expand those in the conversation to include more teachers from outside the echo chamber and to include students.
One of the most interesting links shared was http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jan/02/school
A thought provoking day one twitter effect.
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