Presentation on Personal Learning Environments for the PLE 2010 conference in Barcelona in July.

1. Working, Playing and
Learning through
Personal Learning
Environments
Graham Attwell

2. We
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ore
tum
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ous t
han
any
prev
ious
eco
nom
ic or
soc
ial rev
olut
ion

4. Learning is moving outside the institutions

5. We are learning in multiple
places and multiple contexts

6. Challenging
expert knowledge

7. Our schooling systems are based on the
first industrial revolutions

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

9. above all, homogeneity

10. The internet allows the
development of
personal learning pathways
and collaborative knowledge development

11. The schooling system has evolved as a media ecology
specific to the age of the past and separated from the
media saturated life world

12. How do we learn in a
media saturated
world?

13. Young people
are using the
internet for
creating and
sharing

14. Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

15. Social networking
facilitates
knowledge exchange
and reflection

16. The main use of social networks by
young people is for learning

17. Mobile devices are
spreading learning into
new contexts

18. The use of educational technology has
replicated traditional learning arrangements

19. PLEs are a collection of tools, loosely coupled,
for working, learning and collaboration

20. PLEs are spaces in
which we interact and
communicate - with
the ultimate goal of
learning and
developing collective
know-how

21. Searching for information
and knowledge

22. Aggregate and scaffold
information and knowledge

23. Manipulate, rearrange and
repurpose knowledge artefacts

24. Analyse information to
develop knowledge

25. Reflect, question, challenge, seek
clarification, form and defend opinions

26. Present ideas, learning and
knowledge in different ways

27. Represent and re-render
underpinning knowledge structures

28. Share by supporting
others in their learning

29. Network through a collaborative
learning environment

30. PLEs promote learner autonomy and control as
learning takes place in multiple spaces and contexts

31. Learning interactions take
place in a social
environment

32. 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

33. Learning is linked to
performance in
practice

34. PLEs form part of an expanded
learning environment

35. Thank you
for
watching
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