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The construction of knowledge in personal learning environments. A constructivist perspective. Alexandra Saz, César Coll, Alfonso Bustos and Anna Engel

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Page 1: Constructivist PLE

The construction of knowledgein personal learning environments. A constructivist perspective.

Alexandra Saz, César Coll, Alfonso Bustos and Anna Engel

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A pilot study

Aims to examine the suitability of thecno -pedagogical design in a specific instructional sequence.

Students following the instructional PBL methodology must personalize and use their personal working and learning environments (PWLEs)

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Wider research

Subject of Education Psychology

Bàtxelor in Education Sciences

University of Andorra

Master of Psychology education

University of Barcelona

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How students create, customize and use their PWLEs in the course of

specific learning activities

to analyze how students construct

and give meaning to their PWLEs

according to a specific task

to analyze how students articulate the different levels

of privacy and publicity in their

PWLEs

to analyze the reviews and

perceptions of students and

teachers about their PWLEs

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Theoretical framework

Socio-cultural

constructivist

Learning ecology(Barron,

2005)

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Research context

Subject Educational Psychology

University of Andorra

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Techno -pedagogical design

Problem-based learning

(PBL)

Personal working and

learning environment

(PWLE)

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Problem-based learning

4 problems scenario

role of school teachers

individually sought

information

working group

collaborative answer

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Personal working and learning environments (PWLE)

Open source sofware

(David Tosch and Ben Werdmuller, 2004)

A platform for communication and learning

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Virtual Learning Community

(VLC) Education

Psychology

PLWE student 1

PLWE student 2

PLWE student 3

PLWE student 4

PLWE student 5

PLWE student 6

PLWE student 7

PLWE student 8

PLWE student 9

PLWE student 10

PLWE student 11

PLWE teacher

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Available 25 tools in PWLE

Activity

FavoritesDiscussions

Calendar

Photos

Videos

Pages

Files

Audio

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Profile Progress

GroupMessages

RSS Feed

Latestphotos

Users online

SearchTags

Messenger

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Tools available in Group Space

PagesCalendarVideos

Files

FavoritesDiscussions

Photos

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Social cognitive processes

Access, selection and

organization of information

Creating, editing,

presenting and representing information

Interaction and communication

with others

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Different privacy levels

private

friends group network public

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Instruments for data collection

End second problem

Students questionnaire

Uses and attitudes of students regarding

their PWLE

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Initial results

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Which tools have been the most useful according to your learning process?

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carrying out individual tasks

presenting information

working BPL methodology

share information

doing group tasks

communicate

create new contents

connect with the teacher and receive help

acquisition of the contents of the subject

setting of their own learning timetable

organizing their own personal work space

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The use of PWLE lets...

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What is your assessment about your leaning by solving the problem?

Very high

High

Acceptable

Low

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Teacher’s views

Duplication using Moodle and Elgg

revise the problem

statements to concretize

individual and group tasks

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Interviews

PWLE would be appropriate in

virtual or blended learning processes

possibility of creating a virtual

learning community for the Bachelor in Education Sciences as a space to share

knowledge

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Conclusions and suggestions

Interactions established in the

network are an important part of their present and

future PLE

The introduction of PWLE and VLC

would be appropriate in

virtual or blended learning processes

Elgg is appropriate

software to work through PBL methodology

Students have not thought of

individual work as private

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It would be advisable in future editions…

to include a version that allows the

creation of tabs or sub windows where

students can organize their information

to avoid duplication and include all processes of

learning within a unique virtual community of

learning

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References

Attwell, G. 2007. Personal learningenvironments-thefuture of eLearning?E-Learning Papers, vol 2, no. 1 January 2007 ISSN 1887-1542

Barron, B. 2005. Learning ecologies of DigitallyAdeptYouth: Implications for seedingthedevelopment of technologicalfluency for all. Presentation at the Power UsersConference in San Jose, Costa Rica. August, 2005. SponsoredbyEducationDevelopmentCenter (EDC).

Coll, C. 2004. Las comunidades de aprendizaje. Nuevos horizontes para la investigación y la intervención en psicología de la educación. Paper presented at IV Congreso Internacional de Psicología y Educación. Simposio: Nuevos horizontes en Psicología de la Educación. Almería, April 2004

Tosh, D. and Werdmuller, B. (2004). Creation of a learninglandscape: Weblogging and social networking in the context of e-portfolios.RetrievedJuly, 16, 2004.

Vigotsky, L. S. (1979). El desarrollo de los procesospsicológicos superiores. Madrid: Critica. (Published in english 1978)

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Thanks you for your attention

Authors: Alexandra Saz. Grup de Recerca Interdisciplinari en Educació - GRIE. Universitat d’Andorra. (www.uda.ad). César Coll, Anna Engel and Alfons Bustos. Grup de Recerca sobre Interacció i Influència Educativa – GRINTIE. Universitat de Barcelona (http://www.psyed.edu.es/grintie).

Alexandra Sazhttp://www.alexandrasaz.comTwitter: @alexandrasaz