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Personal Learning Environments. Congreso E-Duca 2011. Graham Attwell. 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.
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Personal Learning Environments Congreso E-Duca 2011 Graham Attwell
Web era 'more tumultuous than any previous economic or social revolution
Challenging expert knowledge
Our schooling systems are based on the first industrial revolutions
teaching timekeeping, obedience, neatness, tidiness, cleanliness and…….
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
Young people are using the internet for creating and sharing
Social networking facilitates knowledge exchange and reflection
The main use of social networks by young people is for learning
PLEs are a collection of tools, loosely coupled, for working, learning and collaboration
social learning is constructed from conversations and participation within a CoP
From digital literacies to critical literacies giulia.forsythe
Universal education through schooling is not feasible. Schools are not (as commonly perceived) a 'dependent variable' within society. They are the reproductive organ of a consumer society educational webs ...heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring Ivan Illich
"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" Friere “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”
Open education Open Educational Resources
Open and linked data Open and Linked Data
Massive Open Online Courses Massive Open Online Courses
learning embedded in every day life
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
Reflect, question, challenge, seek clarification, form and defend opinions
PLEs promote learner autonomy and control as learning takes place in multiple spaces and contexts