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