Networked Student

A networked student is an idea of how a student can use networking as a better way to form ideas about the information being learned. This video portrays what is referred to as connectivism. Connectivism is a theory that learning occurs as a part of a social network of many diverse connections and ties. The tools that we have access to allow these connections to strengthen your learning process. I find this learning process more beneficial because I learn better and faster when I am able to form my own opinions. There is a lot of fuss these days about people learning from a biased perspective and blogging allows you to explore and create your own biases. I think these networks are very useful in today's learning as well as teaching tools. Since this is moving into the norm and not just something above and beyond, as teachers, it will be our job to be fluent with these tools. There are absolutely right when they ask "Why does the networked student even need a teacher?". To help them organize and filter the sources of their knowledge. If we can't teach these students to excell with bigger and better things then they can't compete with those who are.