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My personal work/leisure/learning environment
Following on from the previous post I was thinking about how I have accrued a set of technologies around me. This wasn’t a deliberate policy – I didn’t think "I need to construct a personal working...
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Adblock 1999 A.D. Learningby donaldtheduckie (via Scott Wilson) Back in 2006 I posted some of my reservations about PLEs. At the time I thought these issues were insurmountable, and largely being...
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A PLE – VLE continuum
There’s been a bit of a PLE flurry of posts, generated by some Twitter discussion. Chris Lott posted that he couldn’t see why people think you can’t teach PLEs, or about PLEs. Scott Leslie argues that...
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Here comes everything
I've been reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody. In it he argues that organisations have costs that means they struggle to compete with masses because the masses can afford to have lots of...
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VLE vs PLE fight club
<Image Pirate Test by Danksy http://www.flickr.com/photos/petedanks/2770208173/> I did a debate with Niall Sclater for the upcoming OU course Technology enhanced learning around PLEs and VLEs,...
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The long-awaited ‘education as fruit’ metaphor
I have just returned from the ALT-C conference in Manchester, where I held a workshop with Brian Kelly called 'Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities'. My role was to...
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Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change
Last year I wrote a piece for a special edition of On the Horizon, which Michael Feldstein was editing. It has (finally) appeared in print. Michael gained permission for authors to publish their work...
View ArticleThe centralisation dilemma in educational IT
I wrote an article for a new journal, the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE). My piece was entitled ‘The centralisation dilemma in educational IT’. I argued...
View ArticleWhy don’t we talk about PLEs anymore
I know some people will immediately respond to this title by declaring “I do! And look at all these other people who do”. And yes, there is a PLE conference. But my sense is that we don’t use the term,...
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25 Years of EdTech: 2011 – PLE
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) were an outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the web 2.0 boom. Learners and educators began to gather a set of tools...
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