21st Century Skills: Finding & Controlling Info Flow

Bob Bertsch

NDSU Agriculture Communication

What is an active learner?

What is an active learner?

continuously learning

personal learning network

information flows to themable to find and follow

leverages power of online networks

aggregates information from different sources

curates content

comfortable in social spaces

narrates their work

List 2 things you want to learn more about.

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List 3 people you want to learn from

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Personal Knowledge Management

Harold Jarche - jarche.com

Personal Learning Network a deliberately formed network of people and resources capable of guiding our independent learning goals and professional development needs.

ContentComment

aryResearch

Conversation

Experience

Colleagues

FriendsExperts

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YOU

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Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387

My Learning Network

ContentZiteFlipboardFeedlyGoogle Alerts

SocialTwitterFacebookGoogle +

CurationDiigoPinterestScoop.it

Google Alerts

Use Google Alerts to:

find out what is being said about you or your organization

monitor a developing news story get the latest news on a celebrity or sports

team. find out what's being said about a topic

that interests them

Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts Delivered by email (daily, weekly, or as

found) RSS available for Google accounts

Online content for your learning network

content

• blogs• news sites• online journals• videos• podcasts• social media

YOUlaptop - http://www.flickr.com/photos/computermonger/, smartphone - http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewcf/, ipad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/leondel/.

What are RSS feeds?• RSS = Really Simple Syndication

• Feeds allow websites to send updates to you without you having to visit the site to get it

• There are three common types of feeds - RSS, XML and Atom

• As an end user, it doesn't really matter which format the site uses

• You can subscribe to a feed from any website and read all your feeds in a feed reader, in your browser or in some email clients

News Feeds

Blog Feeds

Feedly

Power of Networks:Exposure to incidental information

Power of Networks:Asking questions

Power of Networks:Connectedness

Power of Networks:Awareness of Trends

Power of Networks:What are others doing

Filter the Noise on Facebook

Filter the Noise on Twitter

Filter Your News

Next Steps List 3 things you plan to do to get started

organizing your learning

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Questions