My Learning Mind Map (Connectivism)

My learning Mind Map illustrates the various ways that I learn. Within this mind map the internet media and social network portions are fairly new. Through internet media I find that I have access to to more information such as articles or news from different regions of the country and even the world. Social media gives quite a different learning experience. Through social  media I have the opportunity to listen to the more personal thoughts and ideas of other individuals which can be very entertaining, informative, but sometimes thought provoking. To obtain this information my laptop and smartphone are excellent tools to help facilitate my learning. Since both of these devices are mobile I have access to wide array of information at all times of the day. In obtaining new knowledge I would go to a digital source such as gmail, yahoo,  youtube but also I enjoy the old fashioned way of obtaining information by just talking to people. Whether these people are: family, or friends, or even the customers that I encounter at work; the information that could be obtain is invaluable and lets face it sometimes the information passed from person to person cannot be found online. This personal learning network in my opinion follows in the idea of connectivism  because of the multiple impacting factors, the abundant information shared from various sources whether it comes from physical or virtual, and the primary use of technology (Siemens, 2011).