Skip to main content

Home/ CTLT and Friends/ Group items tagged PLE

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Theron DesRosier

Critical Thinking as a Distributed Course - 2 views

ple.elg.ca/...view.php

education web_2.0

shared by Theron DesRosier on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Drawing from two years of experience offering the 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge' course in a distributed online environment, the National Research Council's Personal Learning Environment (PLE) project is expanding the model to courses outside the discipline of education. Specifically, Stephen Downes and Rita Kop - who have both offered Critical Thinking courses through more traditional online and offline means, are adapting this material to the distributed model. The purpose of this course is two-fold. First, the design of the course is based on an understanding of the skills and capacities required to effectively learn using a PLE. Second, the offering of the course is intended to test whether learners can employ a PLE environment in order to develop those capacities. Thus, combined, the objectives of the course are intended to demonstrate whether learning may be self-directed with a PLE, or whether an additional pedagogy is required prior to the use of a PLE. Research will form an integral component of the course.
  • Theron DesRosier on 22 Apr 10
     
    "This course attempts to teach the literacies I believe are needed to flourish in a connectivist environment." --Downes
Theron DesRosier

Disaggregate power not people - Part two: now with more manifesto @ Dave's Educational ... - 2 views

davecormier.com/...rt-two-now-with-more-manifesto

cormier Personal learning environments social networking

shared by Theron DesRosier on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 12 Oct 10
     
    "Definition 2 - disaggregating power There is a very different power relationship between being given a space which 'enables contexts' and 'allows supports' for a user and a space that you build and support for yourself. It dodges those institutionally created problems of student mobility, of losing the connections formed in your learning and gives you a professional 'place' from which you can start to make long term knowledge network connections that form the higher end of the productive learning/knowing that is possible on the web. The power is disaggregated in the sense that while attending an institution of learning you are still under the dominance of the instructor or the regulations surrounding accreditation, but coming to your learning space is not about that dominance. The power held (and, i should probably add, that you've given to that institution in applying for accreditation/learning it's not (necessarily) a power of tyranny) by the institution only touches some of your work, and it need not impede any work you choose to do. Here's where I get to the part about the 'personal' that's been bothering me The danger in taking definition two as our definition for PLE is that we lose sight of the subtle, complex dance of person and ecology so eloquently described by Keith Hamon in his response to my post. Maybe more dangerously, we might get taken up as thinking that learning is something that happens to the person, and not as part of a complex rhizome of connections that form the basis of the human experience. Learning (and I don't mean definitions or background) and the making of connections of knowledge is something that is steeped in complexity. At each point we are structured in the work (written in a book, sung in a song, spoken in a web session) of others that constantly tests our own connections and further complexifies our understanding. This is the pattern of knowledge as i understand it. It is organic, and messy, and su
Gary Brown

Best Colleges: The Real Rankings - CBS MoneyWatch.com - 2 views

moneywatch.bnet.com/...345754

ranking colleges PLE

shared by Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ultimately, though, the usefulness of any college ranking will depend on what criteria matters most to you and your teen. The best strategy: Use a few of the rankings to amass quantifiable and
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
Nils Peterson

ECAR on the PLE and the LMS « EDITing in the Dark - 0 views

boora.ca/blog

ecar web2.0 LMS

shared by Nils Peterson on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • The shortcomings of LMSs may, however, have as much to do with institutions’ lack of understanding about how to facilitate learning with them as with the inadequacies of the systems themselves. “
  • the ethos of the LMS and the “wild web” seem to be working against each other if we are trying  to create “professional” or “life long” learners, similar to Martin Weller’s thoughts on the situation.
  • Nils Peterson on 24 Feb 09
     
    I went looking for the ECAR report on LMS & Web 2.0, found this
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page