personal learning environments & networks

Personal Learning Environments & Networks

Technology trends that enhance student successBy Derek Moore

You could Google me to see what I’m up to

Or you could see the kind of people I’m hanging out with

PLE

Personal Learning Environments (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to: – set their own learning goals– manage their learning, both content and process– communicate with others in the process of

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• A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment

Technology Trends

• Pull• Personalisation • Participation

Personal | Social | Open | Emergent | Push

Purchase | Rent | Fuse | Adapt | Network | Perform

Push

Mass Production

Passive Recipient

• ‘If I can have a mass production car built to my specification, why can my child not have a mass production education built to his?’

John West-Burnham

“We're not in Kansas anymore”

• Transmissive• In order• Hierarchical• Structured• Restricted

knowledge• Top down• Gradual• Products

• Transactional• Social• Together• Spontaneous• Share and spread• Among equals• In real time • Services

Change classroom practices 1. Acquisition

2. Participation3. Knowledge

Creation

Does tech enable student success?

• Learning Management Systems• ePortfolios• Personal Learning Environments

Somebody I used to knowWally De Backer (Gotye)

• Disseminate• Participate• Create

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References• Chatti, M. A., Jarke, M., & Specht, M. (2010). The 3P Learning Model. Educational

Technology & Society, 13 (4), 74–85.• Chatti, Mohamed Amine, et al. (2010) "Toward a personal learning environment

framework." International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) 1.4 : 66-85.

• Couros, A. Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning in Emerging technologie s in distance education

• Ito, Mizuko,. ... [et al.]. (2013). Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub

• Mizuko Ito ... [et al.]. (2009) Living and learning with new media : summary of findings from the digital youth project /

• Sfard, A. (1998). On two metaphors for learning and the dangers of choosing just one. Educational researcher, 27(2), 4-13.

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• Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know • Walk off the Earth - Somebody That I Used to

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