Digital identities and personal learning environments (PLEs) allow learners to manage their own learning goals and process. PLEs support learning through social connections, creation of content, and play. Learners can shape their own learning spaces by designing resources, exploring ideas, and collaborating with others. PLEs move away from standardized education toward more collaborative knowledge construction.

1. Digital Identities and
Personal Learning
Environments
Graham Attwell
Online Educa Berlin 2009

2. Etymologies

5. traditional education organisations…
….have reflected the idea of ‘currere’

6. curriculum - a race
winners, losers
same starting point
same finish point
a straight line
who is fastest
rule bound

7. This was reinforced by the industrial model of
schooling - training a mass work force for a
production line economy

8. timekeeping, obedience,
neatness, tidiness, cleanliness
and…….

9. HOMOGENEITY

12. Dave White - http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2008/07/23/not-natives-immigrants-but-visitors-residents/
with
taking
place in
learning
different
contexts

13. developing personal learning networks

14. social networking
and making
connections

15. creating as
well as
consuming

16. Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

17. digital identity - the self
in the network

18. “The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life’
Erving Goffman
A dramaturgical approach
A person’s identity is not a stable and independent
psychological entity; it is constantly remade as the person
interacts with others.

19. Appropriating technologies

20. learning through play

21. PLMEs allow learners to set their own learning goals
manage their learning, managing both content and process and
communicate with others in the process of learning

22. support,
and scaffolding
learning

23. guiding and mentoring

24. shaping (designing)learning spaces

25. creating, exploring and transversing
boundary objects

26. using
social
software
and open
source
software

27. developing open spaces
for learning

28. “We are being forced to reexamine what constitutes
knowledge and are moving from expert developed
and sanctioned knowledge to collaborative forms of
knowledge construction”

29. “a rhizomatic model of
learning in which a
community can construct a
model of education flexible
enough for the way
knowledge develops and
changes today by producing
a map of contextual
knowledge.”

30. reflecting and
linking contextual
and community
knowledge

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watching
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