School Hierarchy vs Network Hierarchy

This amazing little graphic that I ran across, published by PLearn on Flickr, really captures the two opposing environments. The question is, where do we fit in? What’s the learning environment that we create around us? How do we make the transition to the other? And how do we take others along with us?

Developing a Personal Learning Network is a revolutionary practice, but the next logical step, is to challenge one’s own colleagues to join in the transformation. And therein lies the biggest challenge.