Personal Learning Environments- the future of eLearning? - Graham Attwell - full text.d... - 1 views
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a Personal Learning environment was not an application. A PLE is comprised of all the different tools we use in our everyday life for learning.
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All educational software, implicitly or otherwise, either enhances or restrains certain pedagogic approaches to learning. There is no such thing as pedagogically neutral software. A Personal Learning Environment could allow a leaner to configure and develop a learning environment to suit and enable their own style of learning.
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Social software offers the opportunity for narrowing the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers become themselves producers, through creating and sharing.
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This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.
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Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.
Pencil metaphor of Technology Adoption by Teachers by Lindy McKeown - 2 views
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When reflecting on why every teacher isn't using their computers and Internet connections productively when schools have had computers since the early 80s and the Internet has been in schools since the early 90s, I came up with this metaphor for the various positions people assume in relation to the uptake of information and communications technologies.
Code with Google | Google for Education - 0 views
102 Free (or Free-to-Try) Online Collaborative Learning Tools - 2 views
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Today's student generation is mobile, online and Internet-savvy. They are all computer gurus, and they often engage better with their electronics than they do with paper and pencil. As the saying goes, when you can't beat 'em, join 'em: charge into the information age as a 21 st century teacher.
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Huge list of sites and apps that foster collaboration. Tools are divided by grade level and a section for special education is included.
The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption | District Administration Magazine - 1 views
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It Takes Time to Change. Computing technology is not another innovation du jour. Technology is here to stay. Student achievement may not go up after eight weeks of technology use; in fact, it probably won’t. Patience is the way through this barrier.
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Bad Bargain: Why We Still Ask Kids to Factor Polynomials and How We Fix It | Getting Smart - 0 views
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