Week 8

In Karl Fisch's " Best of the Fisch Bowl 2007" the August blog "Creating Personal Learning Network" was neat to me. The blog explains how students and teachers can create personal learning networks, which is a collection of resources that you can go to when you want to learn something. The resources can be parents, teachers, the internet, books, journals and other forms of media. The teachers gave the students the assignments and are teaching them how to find trustful sources, and to help them find multiple sources on that same topic, but to compare and contrast them to get multiple view points on issues. The students don't only learn how to use their own personal learning network, but they should be learning how to be part of someone else’s learning network. How to provide relevant and meaningful information and analysis to others.
I believe this a really good assignment for students, by helping them to become more technologically advanced. The teachers assigned the Personal Learning Network as an assignment at school but they also wanted the students to take it another step and add things that they are personally concerned about. It is important as a student in 2008 to know how to make and use sources that are trustful. Whether you are writing a research paper as a student, or using the internet to find information to use in your classroom it is important to know how to use Personal Learning Networks, blogs, internet sources, and other forms of media.