widget-based ples

widget-based PLEs

Fridolin WildKMi, The Open University

f.wild@open.ac.uk

… is developmentof competence.

(more or less planful)

LEARNING

MORE… OR LESS PLANFUL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT

21ST CENTURY LEARNING SKILLS & COMPETENCES

“A competence is defined as the ability to successfully meet complex

demands in a particular context through the mobilization of psycho-social prerequisites (including both

cognitive and non-cognitive aspects)” (Rychen & Salganik, 2003b, p. 43)

Social“facilitate communicative and cooperative action that aim at identifying, managing and mastering conflicts” (Erpenbeck, 2003)

Professionalbasic and specialized general knowledge, basic psychomotor and mechanical skills, and disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge (Jäger, 2001)

Methodologicalability to independently acquire, structure, critically evaluate, and exploit knowledge in a creative way (Kauffeld et al., 2003)

Personalconcerned with those attitudes and character attributes required to perceive and utilize one’s own competencies and to act in a reflective and self-reflective way (Erpenbeck, 2003)

competence = a human potential

for action!

PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

A network of people surrounding an individual with the persons in this network making use of artefacts and tools while they engage in isolated or collaborative activities of more or less planful (co-)construction of knowledge and information (Wild et al., 2011).

Actions modify this environment

Aim: positively influence competence development (i.e. building up potential for future action)

Ecosystem: lack of control of the individual, characteristics

of all agents moderate performance and behaviour

COMPETENCES MOTIVATED

Planning competence refers to those skills, abilities, habits, attitudes, and knowledge that fix how goals, schedules, and paths are set.

Reflection is creative sense making of the past and enables planning.

Monitoring refers to how progress control is performed.

Last but not least, the pair acting and interacting group social & collaboration and information & tool competences.

planreflect

monitor

actinteract

(Wild et al., 2009)

Qualitative Interviews: 15 persons in 5 sessions (each 40 min to 1 hour)

The theoretical justificationor: why? Why? WHY?

‘CAUSE: MEANING IS SOCIAL

Douglas Adams’ ‘meaning of liff’:

– Epping: The futile movements of forefingers and eyebrows used when failing to attract the attention of waiters and barmen.

– Shoeburyness: The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom

METHODICALCULTURALISM• Methodical culturalism is a form of

(radically social) constructivism. • Understanding is by nature social as it

is grounded in human action (Janich, 1998; Hesse et al., 2009)

• Therefore: understanding is always constituted (and restricted) by a culture of shared understanding

Logical abstractor = a release mechanism.

Quality of a signal

(96dpi)

learning = social interactionfor knowledge building

… and web-apps mediate between users and

knowledge

ACTIVITY THEORY

(Engestroem, 2008)

• A form of (socio-) constructivism. • Mediated action: Tools appropriate

collective experience and therefore mediate between subjects and objects.

In internalisation, “social interaction turns into mental activity” (Fjeld et al., 2002).

In objectification, individual’s mental processes result in the production of a new tool, which again can be involved in social interactions.

Widgets, Services, … and Shopping?

WIDGETBASED PLE

This is a ‘widget’

it’s a use-case sized mini (web) application

It’s either an open social gadget or a widget 1.0 app

Other apps can run it with the help of an RTE (Wookie, Shindig) and connectors

You can turn it into a mobile app (using e.g. phonegap)

PLE Architecture

shop /directory

using delicious

using piratepad.net/art1

using www.objectspot.org

share bookmarks

find papers

summarize papers

Recommendations: tools, activities, …

Recommendations:patterns

Analytics: Tracking:interactions & usage

Widgets &web applications

http://tinyurl.com/cfkno26

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