Digital Identities and
Personal Learning
Environments
Graham Attwell
Online Educa Berlin 2009

Etymologies

traditional education organisations…
….have reflected the idea of ‘currere’

curriculum - a race
winners, losers
same starting point
same finish point
a straight line
who is fastest
rule bound

This was reinforced by the industrial model of
schooling - training a mass work force for a
production line economy

timekeeping, obedience,
neatness, tidiness, cleanliness
and…….

HOMOGENEITY

Dave White - http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2008/07/23/not-natives-immigrants-but-visitors-residents/
with
taking
place in
learning
different
contexts

developing personal learning networks

social networking
and making
connections

creating as
well as
consuming

Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

digital identity - the self
in the network

“The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life’
Erving Goffman
A dramaturgical approach
A person’s identity is not a stable and independent
psychological entity; it is constantly remade as the person
interacts with others.

Appropriating technologies

learning through play

PLMEs allow learners to set their own learning goals
manage their learning, managing both content and process and
communicate with others in the process of learning

support,
and scaffolding
learning

guiding and mentoring

shaping (designing)learning spaces

creating, exploring and transversing
boundary objects

using
social
software
and open
source
software

developing open spaces
for learning

“We are being forced to reexamine what constitutes
knowledge and are moving from expert developed
and sanctioned knowledge to collaborative forms of
knowledge construction”

“a rhizomatic model of
learning in which a
community can construct a
model of education flexible
enough for the way
knowledge develops and
changes today by producing
a map of contextual
knowledge.”

reflecting and
linking contextual
and community
knowledge

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