o Explore the video provided and reflect on the themes of a PLN in a professional capacity.
Brad Baker uses his PLN to support the indigenous community. He also wants to be a “positive contributor” in society. In the meanwhile, he thinks people in the community have a healthy environment where people can treat each other respectfully and carefully.
o Which social media platforms are beneficial in education?
Twitter.
o Consider the equality that exists when all have the same platform to engage community dialogues.
Equality is helpful for people who not willing or be afraid to show their true thoughts. Especially for the vulnerable sector, they sometimes hard to find a community that can speak freely and objectively. What we can do is to understand and listen to their voice because they have been through things that we have not been through.
Having the same platform can help people recognize people from their group. By sharing thoughts and techniques in this kind of community, people will benefit more than ever. Because now they don’t have to learn things randomly, and they can now learn more efficiently.
Hello, KAYATCHEUNG
Thank you for your blog, I agree with you on the idea that Twitter is a good platform for education. Perhpas you can exapnd on this notion a bit further, like what function on Twitter makes you feel like it helps educators or students to discuss teaching materials? For me, I think Twitter give me a channel to see how my peers and their PLN communicate. For example, I have a friend who is in NGOs, and I love to check her Twitter account because they share many interesting stuff they did as a non-profit organization, such as musical education for a local Chinese band.
Hello, KAYATCHEUNG
Thank you for your blog, I like your sentence “Equality is helpful for people who not willing or be afraid to show their true thoughts.” I think it expresses your views on equality very well.
Hello,
The platform can expand people’s minds. It helps a part of the population that is too shy to express itself. When a part of people don’t know how to express themselves. Retweeting posts with similar views can help them a lot.
Hi, KAYATCHEUNG，
I think twitter is a really good social media software. It could help us to discuss and learning topic online. It allows us to learn a lot of news and politics. Young people nowadays have a hard time understanding news and politics. Thank you for sharing your ideal!