personal learning environments nais 2012
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PLEs include the capacities, skills, contacts, tools, and resources that Learners use to direct learning and pursue personal and professional goals. Placing students at the center of their learning environments encourages students to take charge of their learning. PLEs provide a unifying concept that can address a number of promising educational practices.TRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected] Butler, Director of Academic Technology