–Reflect on your experience in the course, your development of PLN, your use of social media platforms and networked publics. Note any changes in your perspective of social media in professional settings and personal use. Submit a closing blog post about your experience and consider how you can pivot your PLN into your next steps.
Before learning about PLN in this course, m
y social media usage and learning habits through connections were scattered and inconsistent. I never thought of improving and inspecting my learning habits and learning outcomes in learning through networks. I was even not aware of the option to develop a personalized learning network. After the systematic learning about the subject matter, I am now more conscious of developing a learning network and how to achieve maximized learning efficiency and learning outcome.
As I am gaining knowledge in this course, I have learned multiple crucial skills and idea to pay attentional in my learning networks:
- I learned to be conscious of separating personal approaches to learning and networks for a professional setting, namely for entrepreneurial purposes.
- I am now aware of my own digital identity and use my personal information wisely. Also, I am more careful of the privacy released on the internet, including my geographical information, passwords, etc.
- I have identified my role of being a resident or visitor when using social network services and how to choose what platforms to use to expand your PLN and combine the degree of freedom of the platform to be visible as a residence.
- I learn that creating a professionalized profile of my own on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram can be used to seek professional learning opportunities and even a job.
- I can now behave appropriately to maintain an admirable reputation, avoid conduct behavior, and conduct a comment that might be a problem for my future career if an employer is tracking the content.
- I am more conscious of avoid sharing misinformation and how to identify verifiable sources.
- I have a clearer image of the aspects that an influencer uses on social media in the eye of the public.
- I learned to use media literacy skills when I am learning and sharing information and conducting controversies.
Before, I never purposefully think about my use of social media and connections and how I can be a more innovative life-long learner using them. I not only learned the techniques and perspective to view my learning process with PLN, but I will also continue to build and expand my PLN. By that, I mean to develop skills revolving around PLN to better assist my academic learning and professional learning with PLN.