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PLEs are Educationally Delicious, EAT-IT 2009
Aug 18th
I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Twin Cities area to attend and present at Emerging Academic Technologies and Instructional Techniques, otherwise known as EAT-IT (hence the presentation topic). Innovations in e-Education at Lake Superior College and Inver Hills Community College hosted, and Barry Dahl (twitter, blog, blog) organized and coordinated the event.
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Loading ...IBM’s Mentoring Network via Facebook
Aug 3rd
Continuing in the Ilich-vein from the last couple of posts. An article at Chronicle Wired describes a new, Facebook-based mentoring program IBM will be piloting this Fall:
Through a Facebook application, which IBM plans to offer in a pilot program in the United States this fall, students like Mr. Vogt, a sophomore at Pace University, can find mentors to give them practical or career advice, or oversee student projects, said Tim Willeford, a spokesman for IBM.
“We have existing mentorship programs within IBM, so it’s a natural extension that we’re trying to connect experts of multiple disciplines to university students,” Mr. Willeford said. “It’s one of the next steps in education.”
Students would log in to an application that would connect them to IBM experts with similar interests, skills, or career goals. Together they could contribute to message boards, create groups, or develop independent projects. Similar mentor programs have been offered in several countries, including India, Mr. Willeford said.
This touches directly on the ideas I’ve discovered recently in Ilich’s 1971 book, “Deschooling Society,” and it appears to be a very specific, although more narrow example of what Alan (Levine aka CogDog) suggested in his recent post. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ivan Ilich Keeps "Popping Up"
Aug 2nd
In previous entry, I quoted from Ivan Ilich’s “Deschooling Society” on which I recently stumbled while reading in more depth about personal learning environments. Just in the last couple of days, Ilich’s simple notion of broad, interpersonal networks serving the primary educational function has surfaced in two other blogs.
First, Alan Levine asked why is it not possible for
People who have knowledge skills to tweet might send messages with #haveknowledge and people looking to learn something specific can tweet #wanttolearn
as a sort of an educational matchmaking system. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PLEs, the Interwebs & 1971
Jul 31st
I recently came across a text that, after scanning it initially, I feel as though I should have encountered it before now. It surfaced in the reading and blogging I’ve been doing focused on personal learning environments, and the publication date, to me, is astounding given some of the ideas.
The educational institutions I will propose, however, are meant to serve a society which does not now exist . . . A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.– Ivan Ilich, Deschooling Society, 1971
The internet enables each and every aspect of that. So, the question I’ll be reading for will be, “How should that theoretically transform the way education happens?”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...How do you use your PLE?
Jul 25th
Continuing the thought from my three previous posts regarding personal learning environments . . .
The thought process has been to consider what exactly a personal learning environment is; reading through some of the literature (journals and blogs), the implicit consensus is a PLE is a collection of applications that enable three types of activities: managing information, generating content, and connecting with others. Of course, there’s overlap between the three activities; if I’m sharing links, I’m managing information and connecting with others. If I’m writing a blog post, I’m at least generating content and likely connecting with others as well. In some instances, depending upon on how I’m using a particular tool, I may be generating content, managing information and connecting with others all at the same time.
With that framework in mind, I decided to place the icons of the various tools I use for each activity. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...What’s in Your Personal Learning Environment?
Jul 25th
Following the two previous posts (here and here), I’m interested in what your experience may be with this model and diagram. It would be a learning experience for me to see how your personal learning environment looks when placed on this same type of model, and perhaps we can crowd source improvements to the model.
To that end, the PSD file – which can be opened and edited by Photoshop, Fireworks or Gimp - is available for you to use to place your tools on the same diagram. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...My Personal Learning Environment
Jul 25th
Based on the model I blogged yesterday, I started considering actual elements within my own personal learning environment and placing them on the model. That exercise prompted several realizations.
First, placing each tool required more reflection than I thought. By the time I was done, I had moved most of the icons around more than a few times. Trying to estimate the percentage of each activity for which a tool is used was interesting.
Second, the level at which this is personal also became extremely clear. Consider the placement of Diigo. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...What is a Personal Learning Environment?
Jul 24th
Preparing for a couple of presentations in mid-August, I’ve been reading literature – journal articles, blogs, research reports etc – focused on personal learning environments. My primary intent and expectation was to validate my understanding and definition of PLEs. What I’ve found thus far achieves that, but it’s also become clear that specific definitions may vary as much as individual PLEs do. One particularly useful resource is Scott Leslie’s EdTechPost listing of PLE diagrams; all of the resources I’ve bookmarked are available below.
Considering all of the definitions I’ve come across, my definition has become more general in nature. Generally, there appears to be consensus regarding the types of activities a PLE should support: More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Don’t Fence Them In @ five-4-six
Jul 18th
I’m wanting to blog a few more ideas than what I have been lately and to find a way to bring in more of the ideas I generate and consider as I’m reading other blogs; I’ve always shared items I’m reading (typically in the sidebar), but I haven’t commented on as many of them as I could or perhaps should.
To that end, I’m hoping to do more “formative” blogging – getting more raw thoughts and ideas “on paper” rather than waiting until there’s a more fully formed summative argument to be made or idea to be expressed.
- comment more and find a way to bring some of those into this space easily; unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a tool to accomplish that, and
- hopefully blog more frequently about some of the specific blog entries I’m reading and considering; for that I’m going to be using Diigo’s “Send to Blog” feature.
Take 1. More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Twitter for Learning & Professional Development
Apr 8th
By week’s end, I will have presented and facilitated four hours worth of sessions focused on learning – in classrooms or as personal professional development – with social networking tools and, specifically, Twitter. Both sessions are at the Texas Distance Learning Association 2009 Annual Conference in Corpus Christi. I’ll be posting more thoughts and resources here, but I also have session content available at a sister Edtechatouille Google Sites page.
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