Personal Learning Networks Are Virtual Lockers for Schoolkids

This article (Personal Learning Networks Are Virtual Lockers for Schoolkids) is about a teacher who's students have a Personal Learning Network. She says it is helpful with projects and researching because they can put whatever they are researching on their PLN. It is good to know that this will help me a lot in school. She also says that it is a "virtual locker" because it keeps changing when more information is put onto it. This teacher monitors her student's PLN very often. She makes sure all of the kids computers are visible from where she is teaching so she can make sure they aren't distracted with something else on their computer. ( I don't really understand how she does this because the students are facing her, so the computer screens shouldn't be visible from where she is teaching but maybe she has a certain technique) I think that a PLN would be fairly helpful for high school students as long as they are focus and willing to work on it. I think that it is possible for the students to drift off from it because it is another thing that takes up time in their busy high school lives but i also think it is worth it.