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I was asked by Grainne Conole to record a short video on my views about PersonalLearningNetworks, VLEs vs PLEs and other related topics, as a contribution toward her unkeynote with Ricardo Torres Kompen for the PLE conference in Aviero, Portugal this week. Unported License.
Everyone has one - a personallearning environment, that is. We all learn. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personallearning 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.
If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that social media and personallearningnetworks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.
I watched this morning's PLE conference (#pleconf) unkeynote by Grainne Conole and Ricardo Torres Kompen, which was streamed live from Aveiro, in Portugal. We are indeed 'distributed beings', said Grainne, perhaps invoking the work of Mark Curtis.
During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personallearningnetworks to try to get started. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?
I have written a lot about PersonalLearning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.
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