A personal Learning Network is a way of describing the group of people that you connect with to learn their ideas, their questions, their reflections, and their preferences. In a highly digital society, people have a close relationship with the web, both online and offline.
The significance of the network that social media has created is that it allows people to become more connected. People can express themselves online and discuss things of interest together. This inevitably has a good impact and brings some rewards. People who publish papers get money. People who watch papers get valuable information and learn from them. However, it can also lead to some risks to public communication, such as malicious rumors and cyber violence by people who are not governed by the Internet. We need to find out the truth and know whether it is true or not. We can’t follow the wrong trend blindly.
Our learning of PLN can be from childhood to old age. It can benefit us throughout our lives, and can be reflected in emerging technologies, climate change, and developing our networking skills and digital literacy, respectively. It can be seen that these can benefit us a lot and these are more than enough to show the importance of PLN learning. I would like to talk about my concept of PLN learning here. With the advancement and development of technology, it is very convenient for us to search for materials online for learning. I think that personal e-learning is very diverse nowadays and we can learn through various apps such as YouTuBe, university websites, books, and lectures by university professors.
These are my preliminary knowledge and understanding of PLN, if you have ideas or objections, please leave a comment and discuss with me.