Personal Learning Environments

Graham AttwellCongreso E-Duca 2011

Web era 'more tumultuous than any previous economic or

social revolution

Learning is moving outside the institutions

We are learning in multiple places and multiple contexts

Challenging expert knowledge

Our schooling systems are based on the

first industrial revolutions

teaching timekeeping, obedience, neatness, tidiness, cleanliness

and…….

above all, homogeneity

The schooling system has evolved as a media ecology specific to the age of the

past and separated from the media saturated life world

The internet allows the development of

personal learning pathways and collaborative knowledge

development

The use of educational technology has replicated traditional learning arrangements

How do we learn in a media

saturated world?

Young people are using the

internet for creating

and sharing

Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

Social networking facilitates knowledge exchange and reflection

The main use of social networks by young people is for learning

Mobile devices are spreading learning into

new contexts

PLEs are a collection of tools, loosely coupled, for working, learning and collaboration

creating, exploring and transversing boundary objects

social learning is constructed

from conversations

and participation within a CoP

From digital literacies to critical literaciesgiulia.forsythe

Ivan Illich

Universal education through schooling is not feasible.

educational webs ...heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring

Schools are not (as commonly perceived) a 'dependent variable' within society. They are the reproductive organ of a consumer society

"Education makes sense because women and men learn that through learning they can make and remake themselves, because women and men are able to take responsibility for themselves as beings capable of knowing — of knowing that they know and knowing that they don't"

“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously students and teachers”

Friere

Open education

Open Educational Resources

Open and linked data

Open and Linked Data

shared knowledge in communities of practice

Massive Open Online Courses

Massive Open Online Courses

PLEs and PLNs

learning embedded in every day life

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PLEs are spaces in which we interact and communicate - with the ultimate goal of learning and developing collective know-how

Searching for information

and knowledge

Aggregate and scaffold information and

knowledge

Manipulate, rearrange and repurpose knowledge

artefacts

Analyse information to develop knowledge

Reflect, question, challenge, seek clarification, form and defend

opinions

Present ideas, learning and knowledge in

different ways

Represent and re-render underpinning knowledge

structures

Share by supporting others in their learning

Network through a collaborative learning

environment

PLEs promote learner autonomy and control as learning takes place in multiple spaces and

contexts

Learning interactions take place in a social

environment

The Zone of Proximal Development - the distance between what we know and are able to do now and

what we could know and do with the help of a Significantly Knowledgeable Other

Learning is linked to performance in

practice

PLEs form part of an expanded learning

environment

We have divergent discourses about learning

A discourse of imagination, play, exploration. sharing, multimedia

attainment targets, measuring

A discourse of targets, standards, testing and inspection

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