Professional Studies 3APFS3A10

Soqinase N.201102273

Personal Learning Environments19 March 2013

The Road Ahead is Open!

“Creativity (in general) is the ability to come up with new ideas that are surprising yet

intelligible, and also valuable in some way” (Boden, 2001)

Creativity?

3 types of Creativity

Combinational

creativity - combining old ideas in new ways.

e.g. Analogy in science

Exploratory creativity - what do the rules enable me to do?

e.g. Jazz music.

Transformational creativity - significant alteration of one or more rules in concept space.

e.g. E=MC2.

Personal Learning Environments

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs

are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &

more formal contexts.

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

Here’s a problem for teachers:

“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” - David Warlick

Formal and Informal learning

20%

Informal Learning

80%

Is learning simply about gaining knowledge...?

... or about making connections?

Learners enjoy learning when it’s engaging and fun!

The reaction of education systems and institutions to the rise of social networking has been at best bewilderment, at worst downright hostility

a refusal to engage in these issues risks school becoming increasingly irrelevant to the everyday lives of many young people

and particularly irrelevant to the ways in which they communicate and share knowledge

Personal Learning Environments…

Connection

‘The wisdom of crowds’

Social Media use

Social Media gives everyone a

voice in the community

Retweeting is not repetition. It is amplification.

- Steve Wheeler

Web 2.0 allows young people to be active co-creators of knowledge

Most informal learning is learner driven, problem based, or motivated by interest

Google is the most used e-learning application

most learning is unaccredited

The Zone of Proximal Development - the distance between what we know and are able to do now and what we could know and do with the help of a Significantly Knowledgeable Other

Learning is linked to performance in practice

Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge

‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an

axiom for collecting knowledge through

collecting people. - Karen Stephenson

Web 1.0: Anything can link to anything

Think Different

Kick start your brain. New ideas come from watching something,

talking to people, experimenting, asking questions, getting out

of the office

- Steve Jobs

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