4. Self-organised learning
Formal learning Informal learning
Self-organised learning
Students take
responsibility for their
own learning
Slidesource:http://www.equal-works.cominWheeler2009
5. Where do you get help from now?
• Supervisor
• Other experts
• Printed material in library
• Internet
• Co-students
• Other
6. Where get info from?
Can you get expertise, support, etc.
also from here?
7. Characteristics
• Content is free
• Content is abundant
• Content is varied
• Sharing / collaboration is easy
• Socially based
• Network is valued
• Peer critiquing
• Personalisation
• Open practices
AdaptedfromWeller2010
13. Learning webs
From this .... ..... To this
Slidesource:Wheeler2009
http://sm.irsd.k12.de.us http://blogs.silverlight.net
14.
15. PLE
• Move from expert developed knowledge to
collaborative forms of knowledge construction
(Graham Attwell)
• PLE is environment for person to manage
knowledge & connections
• PLE is tool intended to immerse yourself into
the workings of a community
• This is how you practice being person with
characteristics of that community, i.e.
researcher
AdaptedfromDownes2010
16. PLE & PLN (for professional development)
Personal
learning
environment
Personal
learning
network
Personal
web tools
Slidesource:Wheeler2010
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
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
31. It’s all about who you follow…
…and being followed!
AdaptedfromLingardetal2010
32. Finding the right people to follow
• Find people
– Id people you admire in your research field; find them
on Twitter via Twitter Search
– Read bios of people on Twitter to see if share interest
– Explore their network / lists
• Scan Twitter lists/ directories
– Listerious
– TweepML
• Ask!
33. DO
• Use good language
• Make it relevant
• Share good resources
• Ask questions and give answers/opinions
• Think before you tweet
• Be yourself!
34. DON’T
• Use ALL CAPS (it is screaming)
• Forget to credit those tweets that you are
passing on (RT)
– RT makes people aware that you value their work
& build stronger network
35. THINK OF YOUR DIGITAL
FOOTPRINT
• Professional identity
• Privacy
41. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Conole G 2010 The changing landscape of educational practice. Presentation to NADE
annual conference in Harten (Norway) on 18 November
• Downes S 2010 Pedagogical foundations for personal learning. Presentation in January
• Downes S 2009 Learning 2.0: Learning today and tomorrow. Presentation on 16 April
• Ebner M 2010 Academic use of microblogging. Presentation at #AIECS10. Available
online at http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
• Kadle A 2010 Elements for constructing social learning environments.
http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/10/elements-for-
constructing-social-learning-environments/
• Lingard M, McNeill A & Cann AJ 2010 Using Twitter in (higher) education. Powerpoint
presentation at the ATL workshop at Nottingham on May 2010
• Pacansky-Brock M Your hybrid classroom: Will you change your paradigm?
• Weisgerber C 2010 Tweet your way to success. Presentation to St Edward’s PRSSA
Twitter workshop
• Weller M 2010 A pedagogy of abundance.
• Wheeler S 2010 Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age.
• Wheeler S 2010b Learning management system and personal learning environment: A
bridge in the clouds?
• Wheeler S 2009 It’s personal: Learning spaces, learning webs.
• Images not acknowledged on slide was taken from Google Image
Notas del editor
Much learning is unaccredited
Downes 2009
Learning as active process where learners discover principles, concepts and facts for themselves.
Acknowledge that learning takes place in various contexts & situations