Excellent piece pulling together theories, making them understandable and relating them to current practice and people. Possibly only missing Lave's concept of peripheral participation and community of practice. I have always assumed an affinity between the idea of a journey from periphery to centre of a community of practice and that journey across a ZPD
1. Create social media tools that help teachers engage students and allow students to reach their potential.
2. Make sure every school in the world has access to them.
AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal learning environments: Balancing teacher control and student autonomy
"We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning. Equally important are those technologies that provide a context for these learning episodes, an environment where students interact and converse among themselves. This paper describes experimentation in the development of distributed online courses and in software - particularly, the personal learning environment - that support the formation of connections between the far-flung pieces of such courses."
EctoLearning is a social, collaborative, online learning environment that directly addresses the needs of the modern learning environment by making the new communication skills and competencies for content creation and sharing central to the classroom experience.
"actual student centredness not the ’students get to talk’ model we’ve been sold for years, involves the student's creating their own knowledge in their own space…"
Die Fachtagung "Personal Learning Environments in der Schule" beschäftigt sich mit allen Arten von medialen Werkzeuge, mit denen Lernende ihren Lernprozess verstärkt selbst gestalten können. Es gibt eine Video-Einführung in das Tagungsthema von Beat Döbeli.
Doug Clow’s notes from Researcher 2.0 event - sponsored by the Technology Enhanced Learning research cluster at the Open University, and the OLnet project.
Imagine if every twelve weeks Facebook: * shut down all the groups you belonged to, * deleted all your forum posts, * removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and * forgot who your friends were.
Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology 4 (2008) This paper briefly summarizes the implementation of a university-wide electronic portfolio requirement. We begin with a systemic view of the ePortfolio Program and narrow our focus to a view of ePortfolio integration into two different classes. The rationale behind the Clemson University ePortfolio Program is to build a mechanism through which core competencies are demonstrated and evaluated. The target classes are a general education English class focusing on 20th and 21st century literature and a professional development seminar in computer science. Both classes allow students to select their topics and present their work to the class using a variety of media types, and both include a form of peer evaluation. These classes confirm that when students’ choice is built into the assignments we are pleasantly surprised by the outcomes.
(1) the role of the learner as active, self-directed creators of content; (2) personalisation with the support and data of community members; (3) learning content as an infinite “bazaar”; (4) the big role of social involvement; (5) the ownership of le
