PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

M.E Tshabalala student teacher University of

Johannesburg

We are at present undergoing a deep and prolonged

industrial revolution based on digital technologies

Profound innovations in technology tend to be reflected in older paradigms

Social media

We cannot ‘manage’ self-organised learning for our students.

We can only create conducive environments within which students will organise their own learning.

The reaction of education systems and institutions to the rise of social networking has been at best bewilderment, at worst downright hostility

The reaction of education systems and institutions to the rise of social networking has been at best bewilderment, at worst downright hostility

Google is the most used e-

learning application

Aim of the PLE……. BEGINNING

PLE

Functions of PLEs

PLEs are not another substantiation of educational technology but a new approach to learning

the idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that learning is continuing and seeks to provide tools to support that learning

Why PLE????? Whence the PLE? “Why do we need a PLE when we already have

the Internet? The Internet is my PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, wikispaces, ourmedia, creative commons, and what ever comes next in this new Internet age, I have a strong online ID and very extensive and personalised learning environment."

Leigh Blackall http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/

2005/11/die-lms-die-you-too-ple.html

THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT WILL

In a nutshell – because it means that theories of online distance learning must:

capture the expression of self as a network of connections

place this self at the centre of the learning experience

Social networking

PLE and Social networking continued……

External Services Web 2.0

Self organisedE-Portfolio

Aggregator

Social Network

Blog

LMS

Personal Learning

Environment

Continued….

External Services Web 2.0

Self organised

E-Portfolio

Aggregator

Learning networks Learning Networks Not Institution Based Resource based, learning integration Open access, content networks Not Product Based Web based, content not packaged but

aggregated Identity used to enable access, not restrict it Not Content Based E-learning as engagement, conversation Focus on services and interaction

In such communities of practice formal learning materials are seldom used

Communities involved And although most countries

have adopted a rhetoric of lifelong learning, there is little sign that education systems have sufficiently changed to facilitate such a movement.

Top 5 teacher tools

Examples 0f these tools EG BLOGGING…….

Blogs and Wikis

"Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few..." -- Katie Hafner NY Times.

Blogger - Live Journal - Movable Type - Wordpress Educational Blogging – article Educational Weblogs - Edublogs.org

Wikipedia – as compared to Britannica by Nature

Beginning of change

Policies to support the development and implementation of PLEs

the development and adoption of new pedagogies

Bibliography Attwell, Graham. (n.d.). personal learning enviroments. Retrieved

from slide share.

Ivanova, M. (n.d.). Retrieved from eLSE - eLearning and Software for Education,

John G. Breslin, S. D. (n.d.).

Malinka Ivanova, T. U.–S. (n.d.). Retrieved from slide share.

Stephen Downes. (n.d.). Retrieved from slide share: http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2005/11/die-lms-die-you-too-ple.html

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