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| Anatomy of PLE (by Steve Wheeler from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/ 2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html) |
A
summary of what a PLN & PLE
Personal
Learning Environment
Personal Learning Environment (PLE) from the name itself is
an environment where an individual learns.
PLE has other components such as Personal Learning Network (PLN),
Personal Web Tools (PWT), and Cloud Learning Environment (CLE). PLE can be
digital or non-digital materials. For
non-digital materials, it could be newspapers, magazines, realia (field trips,
immersions, encounters, visits, real experiences and conversations.
(see PLE figure)
Personal
Learning Network (PLN) this is the part of one’s learning
environment wherein it focuses not only on the contents that we learn formally
and informally but as well as the people around us that helps us learn and
understand any subject matter .
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| Physiology of PLE (by Steve Wheeler from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com /2010/07/physiology-of-ple.html) |
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| Physiology of PLE (by Steve Wheeler from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com /2010/07/physiology-of-ple.html) |
These tools can allow you to generate, organize, and share
content with the use of communication. (see PWTfigure)
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| Anatomy of PLE (by Steve Wheeler from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com /2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html) |
CLE helps
the learner access online free tool most of have open architecture, easier to
use and free but unprotected and vulnerable.
As PLE is the combination of tools and it is owned by the students
wherein they enjoy full control on
and choice of. The tools within a PLE are most likely not used
for the purpose of formal education of all learners within an educational
institution. Each learner may use a different set of tools to support/enhance
their informal learning.
A
metaphor to explain a PLN & PLE
The organization of a learning activity is like the
exploration of a open doors, each of these doors is dedicated to a specific
activity. This metaphor is as simulation of the real life, where there is a
natural mapping between places and activities, from home or dormitory to a
library, a laboratory, or even a cafeteria. Available resources for the given
learning objective appear as objects inside a room. The tutor decides room
appearance and topology, by placing inside them, among possible objects, some
doors lead to other rooms.
Examples of content in a PLN & PLE
Tobi is a 5th grader taking Digital Art. Allow me to show a diagram
what would his PLE will look like.
Part of his PLN are his teachers not only from Digital Art
but also from other subjects; his home, school, after-school where he work on his tasks even school
cafeteria. His friends are considered as part of his PLN.
PWT are categorized from Generating & Organizing Content
– these are the applications that he use to create his work like Office, Adobe and
Open Source products (such as Word, Excel, Illustrator, Inkscape). He also use
facebook, blog and moodle to share or submit his work. He also read
books and magazines. He loves to check youtube, schooltube, and pbskids.
As described in 7 Things you should know about (published by Educause Learning Initiative), the term personal learning environment (PLE)
describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual
educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue
educational goals.
