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Personal Learning Environments Sustainable Learning

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf

Horizon Report: 2011 K-12

Personal Learning Environments

Independent School Fall 2011Spotlight on Research

Empowering Students with Personal Learning EnvironmentsBy Wendy Drexler

“…a PLE is the method students use to organize their self-directed online learning – including the tools they employ to gather information, conduct research, and present their findings. As its name implies, PLEs give learners a high degree of control over their work by allowing them to customize the learning experience and connect to others, including experts in the field.”

- Wendy Drexler p. 20, Independent School, Fall 2011

As a master learner, where is the edge of your learning?

Students at the mercy of the

entire Internet

Students build their own information

spaces to control the Internet

October, 2011AthabascaUniversity

http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens/open-access-week-athabasca-university

“Fragmentation is a new reality. Our learning models need to embrace it.”

-- George Siemens

[Picture of a skier, skiing down an avalanche in progress.]

Permission to use picture was given only for the live presentation however a copy of the picture can be seen on the cover of this book: Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper (Sept 2008)

FROMhttp://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/technology-in-pedagogy/articles/Technology-in-Pedagogy-6.pdf

Confusion about the term PLE

PLE’s are not exclusively digital: include taking in experiences and realia, and learning through TV, music, paper-based materials, radio and more formal contexts.

Content not as important now as knowing where (or who) to connect to, to find it.

Tools used to support lifelong learning.

ManagingMultiple Accounts

Synthesizingand Creating

Key: = Capacities/Literacies = Skills = Categories of Tools

Organizing Content

Collaboratingand

Socializing

Practicing DigitalResponsibility

PersonalLearning

EnvironmentPracticing Digital

Literacy

Tagging

Note Taking

Dealing with Technology

Searching and viewing text audio and video

EvaluatingResources

Avoiding Inappropriate

Content

CommunicatingRespectfully

UsingTechnology

Properly

Reflecting

Producing Content

Debating

Questioning

Communicating

Source:http://bit.ly/95fLAC

Don Tapscott

The Rise of the Age of Networked Intelligence

Don Tapscott - Aspen Ideas FestivalJuly 18, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIwIyft3fU

Agrarian Age

Printing Press Internet

IndustrialAge

Age of Networked Intelligence

Why are networks so powerful?

The value of a network increases by the square of each member who joins.

As a node in the network you can potentially connect with any other node and that action distributes your intelligence.

- Clay Shirkey

“There is no such thing as information overload. There is only filter failure.”

ManagingMultiple Accounts

Synthesizingand Creating

Key: = Capacities/Literacies = Skills = Categories of Tools

Organizing Content

Collaboratingand

Socializing

Practicing DigitalResponsibility

Activity: identify the

areas you are familiar with.

Practicing DigitalLiteracy

Tagging

Note Taking

Dealing with Technology

Searching and viewing text audio and video

EvaluatingResources

Avoiding Inappropriate

Content

CommunicatingRespectfully

UsingTechnology

Properly

Reflecting

Producing Content

Debating

Questioning

Communicating

Push ModelsPush models treat people as passive consumers whose needs can be anticipated and shaped by

centralized decision-makers.

Pull ModelsPull models are emerging as a response to

growing uncertainty. Instead of dealing with uncertainty through tighter control, pull models

do the opposite. Pull models help people to come together and innovate in response to

unanticipated events, drawing upon a growing array of highly specialized and distributed

resources. Rather than seeking to constrain the resources available to people, pull models strive

to continually expand the choices available while at the same time helping people to find the resources that are most relevant to them

-- John Seeley Brown & John HagelThe Power of Pull, 2011

from Push to Pull

An information dashboard utilizing widgets such as iGoogle, PageFlakes or Netvibes can aggregate many aspects of a PLE in a compact digital display.

’What can you do?’ has been replaced with ‘What can you and your network connection do?’

Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.

--Jay Cross “Informal Learning”

Shift: Push to Pull

OrganizingContent

-- Everyone needs to find their “Inner Librarian” in order to become efficient with information management.

-- The library of the future will include the one youmake yourself.

GOAL: Students come to believe their contributions matter.

Synthesizingand Creating

LINK to student project:https://sites.google.com/site/virtualmuseumoftheorigins/

It’s Personal!

Reputation and Identity management

“It seems critical to ask whether new digital media are giving rise to new models – new “ethical minds” – with respect to identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility and participation…”

Practicing Digital Responsibility

Example Mindmaps

Everyone’sLearning EnvironmentIs Different

BIG LIST OF PLEshttp://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Personal Learning Environments Sustainable Learning

Seattle Academy, Seattle, WAKathleen Johnson, Librarian kjohnson@seattleacademy.orgVicki Butler, Director of Academic Technology

vbutler@seattleacademy.org