PLN

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**My Personal Learning Network**
====** A PLN is important to educators and should meet their standards in ways that it will show those who view their profile that they have clear understanding of technological skills which are gradually becoming more important in the classroom. **====


 * While creating my own PLN, there are some things Ive learned that I was never very familiar with. **
 * **First, I have never heard of wiki spaces before I started this course **
 * **Ever since high school I have had a facebook and never thought about following on twitter. For this PLN page we were to create our own twitter account and embed our feed onto this page. That was definitely new to me.**
 * **The last thing for this PLN was to create a google reader account and subscribe to a minimum of five blogging sites. I learned how to shorten the URLs for these sites and share them through twitter.**

Marc Prensky's Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants ( My Response )
====**We as students according to Prensky are the first generation to grow up in this new world of technology. He refers to us as Digital Natives because in the education world, it is the only language we can understand. Our older educators are referred to as the Digital Immigrants because the language of their teachings contains very little new world technology as a result of not having access to it growing up. Prensky makes a valid argument that I find almost impossible to go against. We are so used to these different aspects of technology that it has become the only way we can learn and our elder instructors don't understand that. Many years ago the only resources our teachers had were books, so they believe that is the best way to retrieve information. Books still exist as a source of information but why use books when we have the internet. Need I say more? That is how we grew up and as Prensky says, it is better for the Digital Immigrants to adapt and teach us in our language than to have us Digital Natives go backwards. **====