Reflecting on (Dabbagh, 2012) Role of instructors in helping and guiding their learners to acquire skills needed to effectively utilize social media for a better learning outcome/ experience .

A framework has been suggested by the author , to help  higher education instructors in setting and framing  student self-regulation skills in the creation of Personal learning environment PLE . They based it on how the levels of socially interactive the person is on social media . Levels were as follows :  (1) personal information management, (2) social interaction and collaboration, and (3) information aggregation and management. This framework helps college faculty on how to engage students into an actively growing cycle of building  PLEs that would support students' self-regulated learning. This environment can become an effective educational tool that acts as a vehicle for informal learning as well as it could trigger their cognitive analytical processes. 

When it comes to me , i feel like im going through the same thing with this course, as a student im learning and im being guided to construct my own  blog , to be active and keep posting blogs, get feedback, comments  and im being encouraged through out my contributions then being helped to master my networks/ links and my topic by getting me linked into other online platforms, ultimately adding the blog into an aggregation service as  feeder.  Im very grateful and thankful for this experience for i truly lack or dont possess  knowledge management and the self-regulatory skills to be able to  effectively use social media in order to be able to personalize my  PLE  to have a great learning journey. or experience. 


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