K12 Cornerstones Launches Blog Network

For the past several months, I have aggressively dedicated myself to completing my dissertation on the topic of social networking, personal learning networks, and connectivism for educators. Through my research and studies, I have found overwhelming evidence to support the benefit of online learning for adults by connecting with others. Rather than learn in isolation, adults prefer to facilitate that own learning quest by socializing and networking with peers.

This vague framework of social learning theory and connectivism (a learning theory for the digital age) is what spurred me to redesign and repurpose K12 Cornerstones. I want to continue providing individuals with high-quality information and resources regarding various educational topics, but also want to collaborate with other educational experts along the way.

Let’s be frank…there is a lot of junk to be found on the Internet. Shameless internet marketers have inundated the web and dominated the search engine rankings with absolute-crap, generally to make a quick dollar off innocent people. This is unethical and a complete waste of time for those in need of quality information. Some have identified this as an “information gap,” between websites rich with information and others festering with garbage.

To help maneuver through the immense digital landscape of educational information and resources, I decided to repurpose K12 Cornerstones to help others gain educational information/resources by actual educational experts. Over time, it is my intent to collaborate and partner with various educators by including their blog and educational products for our readers.

By creating the K12 Cornerstones Learning Network, the ability to promote and share ideas between member blog sites becomes a reality.

Additionally, one of the primary benefits of networking with others educational bloggers is to improve search engine optimization SERPS rankings. While some may target me for being to ambitious, it’s my hope that our network will grow to nearly 100,000 unique visitors each month and furnish hundreds-of-thousands of monthly page views.  But none of this is realistic without genuine, fresh, high-quality education niche content.

My primary goal is to provide readers with great content, in an interactive format, based upon various educational news, teaching and learning tips, and learning resources to help others.

I welcome you to the redesign and repurposing of my educational blog network. If you think you’d be interested in becoming a contributor, please feel free to drop me an email (k12cornerstones@gmail.com).

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