It’s worth the six minutes necessary to watch the reflections from this young person as she discusses the biases and stigmas we often hear related to acquiring and maintaining Internet friendships. Much of her monologue relates well to the development of personal learning environments and Jurgenson’s notion of “digital dualism”.…
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Loading...On Thursday and Friday this week I was lucky enough to run two workshops at the PLE Conference held at Monash University. The PLE Conference is a two day conference held in two cities, Melbourne and Berlin. This year’s program, Personal Learning Environments: Learning and Diversity in the Cities of the Future, was full of presentations looking at the use of PLEs in education and examined the use of technology enhanced learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Off the top of my head, just a few quick reflections about my PLE:
Hmmm… Nope! Not a single one of them! All the items gathered in my PLE mindmap below are performed together with people or with an audience in mind.…
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This past few weeks has been all about connections for me – and they (the past few weeks, that is) have been pretty well a blur too! First off being a connected educator has been the theme over the first few weeks of the course I teach here at BU’s Faculty of Education called 03.467, Internet for Educators (#I4Ed is our twitter hashtag devised by one of my students).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Some of the questions posed during this #etmooc topic are ones I’ve explored before. Given the affordances which today’s communications technologies provide, it would be remiss (negligent?) not to reflect on how we might leverage the potential they might offer. So my explorations of the issues raised by “What does my PLE/PLN look like?…
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I admit it. I’m one of those. I build walls and compartmentalize. Here I am in a MOOC with all of these open, free, thoughtful, experimental people who are blogging, tweeting, etc about any number of subjects. Here I sit, painfully eking out my second blog. …
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