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Chris Jobling

PLENK 2010: Just Like 'Watching Football' - 0 views

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    Nice summary of the first week's readings and discussion by Stefanie Pike, Educational Technology and Change Journal.  "Both the discussion and readings helped me to refine my understanding of both concepts. To me, the term personal learning network refers to processes and structures within the personal learning environment. Another personal learning outcome is my new awareness of the importance of "curation" in online classes, an issue I have not yet thought about. A great deal of discussion time was dedicated to the problem of curation, that is, how to make the results of a forum or live discussion available without having to read through all comments. Dave Cormier and the participants vented different ideas and approaches - from structuring the process of curation in a wiki and using word clouds like Wordle and visualizations like concept maps to discourse analysis and approaches from computational linguistics. "Stephen Downes encouraged participants to be selective in their attention and activities within the class. "Think of it as football.  People do not stop watching football just because they cannot watch everything!" I wonder if Stephen was talking about american football or soccer? In soccer you just watch the player with the ball.
Lindsay Jordan

YouTube - Massive Open Online Courses for Network Creation - 0 views

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    Dave Cormier - MOOCs for network creation
paul lowe

#PLENK2010 Curation and Balance « Jenny Connected - 1 views

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    "There has been lots of discussion this week about whether Personal Learning Environment (PLE) and/or Personal Learning Network (PLN) are the right terms to describe what this is all about and some recognition that this a semantics issue. According to Rita Kop PLE is a UK term and PLN an American term. Dave Cormier questions whether the term personal should be used at all. Stephen Downes points out that personal is an OK term if you think about [Personal Learning] Network as opposed to [Personal] Learning Network - and similarly for PLE. I like that - but for me, the words are not as important as the process - although I can see that the process needs nominalising for ease of reference. If I am going to think about introducing the idea of PLEs/PLNs to my colleagues or students then I will be talking about the process and the implications of this process for learning rather than what we should call it, i.e. why it might be preferable for students to learn in environments/spaces of their own choice rather than be confined to an institutions VLE/LMS."
Heinz Krettek

5 points about PLEs PLNs for PLENK10 @ Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

  • POINT 1. The PLE differs from the general usage of the LMS in that it is not course focused, but rather focuses on the learning the student is doing over the length of their learning journey. By extension it tends to allow for the student to control the way their own work is organized.
    • Niklas Karlsson
       
      Is it not possible to workwith the concept PLE, PLN inside trad. school system?  Is it possible to help the students to create a PLE even if they are focused on courses?
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Maybe a 'portfolio' is a proto-PLE?
    • Heinz Krettek
       
      Does proto-PLE mean that a portfolio is a part of PLE or a preliminary stage? 
  • My problem lies in the double trouble that exists around ‘telling’ someone that this is going to be their personal space, and the other is around the idea that TIME is very short in most courses, too short, really, to create a ‘network’
  • How do we know that any learning happened? How can we possibly organize all the work that students are doing so that they can find each other’s work and so that I, as an instructor, can review all their work? These (and many more) are some of the difficult practical issues around the PLE PLN in the classroom. In the course I linked to in the last section, I put the onus on the students to copy/paste a link to each of their blog posts, to important comments they had made structuring other people’s work (one of our students or not) and important connections that they had made between the information/knowledge we were covering and their experience during the course.
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  • PLEs are (to me at least) the ecologies within which PLNs operate
  • POINT 3 PLEs need not be supported by educational institutions
    • Heinz Krettek
       
      Why do students don't use a ple without assessment pressure?
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    From facilitator Dave Cormier -- "The concept of the Personal Learning Environment in all of its wondrous forms has been one that I've struggled with over the last four or five years that I've been familiar with it. I'm very excited to be taking part in the PLENK10 course in order to take the time to focus on these ideas and get a clearer sense of what I mean by the word. I would add, that I think this is one of the central values of an open course… it provides the opportunity to bring clarity to a subject in a field… even if we end up with different clarities"
Chris Jobling

PLE vs. LMS - disaggregate power, not people. @ Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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    An important contribution the the PLE v LMS debate that will be the focus of Week 2. Dave Cormier says that "The PLE/LMS debate is not about autodidacticism, it's about the decentralization of power". Dave and commentors Michael Feldstein and Alan Levine see a a role for institutions, educators and even an LMS in the "brave new world" of the PLE.
Chris Jobling

Communications & Society: Complexity and Personal Learning Environments - 0 views

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    Post of the week! Posted by Keith Hamon and shared by Dave Cormier via Twitter and picked up serendipitously via a Feedly suggestion of good sources for PLENK2010 in Swansea on a Sunday. A neat critique of what the word "personal" in PLE should mean. I wish that I could write like this!
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