Learning with e's

AUGUST 15, 2015

For the many people who have participated to date, it has been an exercise in creative thinking, and an experience of extending social connections within their personal learning networks. The challenge was simple - you shared an image with a friend (or three) and challenged them to write a short, learning related blog about it.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2011

Everyone has one - a personal learning environment, that is. We all learn. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personal learning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own communities of interest and practice.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Content creation is an important feature in many personal learning environment (PLE) models, and together with organising and sharing, makes up the cardinal triumvirate of skills that provides learners with a clear advantage. Without organisation and tagging (the use of key descriptive words) such content is not searchable.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. They can organise their own resources through free and easy to use tagging and social filtering tools. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

What schools should be doing is assessing for learning - providing students with personalised feedback on their performance referenced against their own previous personal attainment - what we refer to as ipsative assessment. et al (2007) Personalised Learning: Ambiguities in Theory and Practice. Reference Campbell, R.

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Learning with e's

JULY 23, 2010

Creating, organising and sharing content within a defined community of interest is the way forward, and all of these are achievable through social media. I have previously outlined my views on what a personal learning environment should contain - it's functional components, or the anatomy and physiology of a PLE.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Literacy allows us to develop a self awareness of not only the symbolic nature of our world but also the processes of personal learning - or meta-cognition - and in so doing we build what Bordieu has termed 'cultural capital'. Watching TV is no longer a distributed communal activity. Unported License.

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