Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments EuroCALL September 2010
image: Joyce Seitzinger, e-learning instructional designer : http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/ PLE vs PLN More PLE Diagrams here: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
image: Francesc Esteve, educational analyst, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid http://www.francescesteve.es/ PLE vs VLE PLE - open learning - informal learning - student/teacher owned - small pieces loosely joined
“ Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing. One implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’ content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through learners themselves becoming producers of learning materials.” (Attwell, 2007) New approach to using technologies for learning.
Barriers against Teacher take-up - “ twittiquete ” - impression of Twitter cliques
Autonomous 'Personal Learning Networks’ for Language Teachers APLaNeT Seven Partners: ISTEK, Turkey University West Scotland, UK – Sofia University, Bulgaria British Council, Spain – EuroEd Foundation, Romania CELT Athens, Greece – Pelikan, Czech Republic Associate Partners – 140 institutions from 33 countries
not 'build and they will come' but go to where the people are
- Attwell (2007) Personal Learning Environments – the future of e-learning ?
www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media11561.pdf - Downes (2010) Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Project http://ple.elg.ca/ - Various (2010) Personal Learning Environments http://edutechwiki.unige.ch - Weinberger (2007) The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York:Holt)