So I have been pondering my latest #ETMOOC blog challenge for almost 6 minutes now on Connected Learning.

If people are looking for ideas to write about, I’d like to take this opportunity to once again share the blog prompts that were mentioned in the Introduction to Connected Learning presentation. These included:

• What does my PLE/PLN look like? How can I share it?
• How important is connected learning? Why?
• Is it possible for our classrooms and institutions to support this kind of learning? If so, how?
• What skills and literacies are necessary for connected learning? How do we develop these?
• What are limits of openness in regards to privacy & vulnerability? Are we creating or worsening a digital divide?
• How do we expand this conversation?

I have always had an informal PLN,

• in high school and college – it was friends and classmates who would ask me how to do the homework (there was no Internet back then)
• in my work in education – it was my boss who wanted to discuss his doctoral research
• currently for education – it is my office mates, my Google+ must reads (Laura Gibbs, Anne Hole, PJ RosenBerg and George Station) and now my MOOC-er Circle (which is growing daily).
• for less educational portions of my life – http://comicbookrealm.com/ and http://www.chess.com/ are my go to spots

But I don’t post much, I am a LURKER, I read way too much of my Google+ stream, and will sometimes comment, +1 and share. But I seldom post original content.  I think the K-12 education system broke me. As I was one of the smarter kids in school I usually did the work and knew the answers, so teachers would tire of calling on me, therefore I stopped participating.  So by the time I got to college I was a bad student, never talked during class, afraid to voice an opinion, and continue to be that way today.

So while I enjoy listening to the recorded session and reading many of your blogs, participating by writing a blog is a very hard thing for me to do.