Netwibes.com. If you dont have a PLN, you don't know what you are missing. Recently I had the most thrilling experience!
I met, in person, some members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN)! In between shared handshakes, hugs, giggles - gasps could be heard: "Wow - you're so tall! " "Your hair isn't as red as I thought it'd be! " "You're just like I imagined! " "I can't believe I'm finally meeting you! " So who are these people? When I started out on my learning journey nearly two years ago, I expected to increase my knowledge and learn some more about the technology that had baffled me for so many years. My PLN is comprised of a range of professionals that stretch across Australia and the world, many more than the half dozen members I recently met in person. What is a PLN? The simplest definition is that a PLN is a group of people with whom one connects, communicates and collaborates in the sharing and exchanging of information and ideas, and through whom one increases one's knowledge and understanding of topics of interest.
You can learn anything you like. Eksempel PLE -Debbie Kroeker. Personal Learning Environments as conscious learning strategies. Digitalingua , the International Conference on Digital Environments and Language Learning, took place last week and I was interviewed by one of the organizers, Lola Torres on the topic of Personal Learning Environments (PLE). Below you can find the original text of the interview in Spanish, and a quick translation into English. What do you mean by PLE? Although certainly not the best way to define a thing, I like to think on the Personal Learning Environment as opposed to two aspects of learning, which are, still today, the orthodox and hegemonic form to understand education (and note the change of “learning” to “education” is fully conscious). When we think of learning we tend to circumscribe it into a formal and institutional environment. The Personal Learning Environment is rethinking the whole process of learning from the informal and the endogenous or non-institutional, everyone becoming responsible for their own learning plan.
Now available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Backwards. Personal-learning-environments - home. Personal Learning Environment. Information Fluency provides a model for educational activities; the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the place where those activities happen.
Just as learning activities and their products map to the three areas that comprise Information Fluency, those activities and their products can be mapped to different tools and resources. About the “PLE” Personal The PLE is personal because the people, applications, tools, resources, and services are chosen to match our individual, idiosyncratic needs. Each is adopted and discarded according to our needs and whims. Learning Many have given up on the call to rename the PLE to the Personal Living Environment. Environment In practice, the PLE is an environment, not a network. Visualizing the PLE Visualizing the PLE has become something of a pastime for education technology geeks. Similarly, Martin Weller clusters tools and services around himself, clustered by (primary) function: Parts of the PLE (for me) Connect Collect Reflect Share The PLE is People!