6. 15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning
1. Always have a book 9. Unlearn assumptions
2. Keep a to-learn list 10. Find a better job
3. Get better friends 11. Start a project
4. Guide your thinking 12. Follow your intuition
5. Put it into practice 13. The morning 15
6. Teach others 14. Reap the rewards
7. Clean your input 15. Make it a priority
8. Learn in groups
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/15-steps-to-cultivate-lifelong-learning.html
9. Personal Learning Network
A personal learning network is an informal
learning network that consists of the people a
learner interacts with and derives knowledge
from in a personal learning environment. In a
PLN, a person makes a connection with another
person with the specific intent that some type of
learning will occur because of that connection.
28. SO TO CREATE OUR OWN PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, WE NEED TO
GO BEYOND JUST READING
But what?
29. A PLE Needs
• A Focus
• A curated set of Inputs
• A place to refine, distill & Synthesize
• A method to Practice and reinforce
• A Structure to hold it all together
31. Focus
• Pick something to learn
• Size matters
• Intermediate mastery in a reasonable time
32. My Personal PLE Focus
• Game Design
• More specifically, learning how to make
educational games more educational without
sacrificing fun
33. Inputs
• Using the focus,
Blogs
choose sources of
information Book
Tweeps
lists
• Can be individuals
or media
• Be selective!
PLE
34. My Personal PLE Inputs
• Lists of specific
twitter users Blogs
• Playlists in YouTube Book
• Amazon book Tweeps
lists
search
• LinkedIn groups PLE
• Specific RSS feeds
• And more…
39. RSS Feeds
• Every RSS Feed has a URL
• Every folder of RSS feeds you have in Google
Reader also has a URL
• It looks like this:
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream
/user%2F05084904569903170225%2Flabel%2
F%20Game%20Design
41. YouTube Channels & Playlists
• A channel is a set of videos originated from
one account
• A playlist is a list of videos chosen by you
• Each has a unique URL that can be added to
your PLE
• Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCB11
4282ACDFE703
43. LinkedIn Groups
• Linked In has recently become a great place to
go for higher-level information sharing
• There are groups on many topics
• Here’s one one Board Game Design
• http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1159637
45. Delicious Tags
• Being smart about how you tag things in
Delicious makes it possible to find subsets of the
things that matter to you.
• Choosing tags that make sense to others will also
allow you to benefit from the things they find.
• Here’s a URL based on a tag I use:
http://www.delicious.com/bdodge/gamedesign
47. Book Searches
• Do a search for a particular topic
• Save the URL of the result page
• Revisit it to see what’s new
• Here’s my Amazon search for ‘game design’
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_0?rh=k%3Agame+design%2Ci%3A
stripbooks&keywords=game+design&ie=UTF8&qid=1351237322
51. Notes from Evernote
• Great way to capture information from real
life
• Conference notes
• Conversations with people
• Images, sounds
• Each notebook has its own URL
53. A PLE Needs
• A Focus
• A curated set of Inputs
• A place to refine, distill & Synthesize
• A method to Practice and reinforce
• A Structure to hold it all together
54. Where Do You Synthesize?
• Google Docs
• Linoit
• Blogger
58. A PLE Needs
• A Focus
• A curated set of Inputs
• A place to refine, distill & Synthesize
• A method to Practice and reinforce
• A Structure to hold it all together