Before and After Twitter: Personal Learning Environments

Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference http://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

Outline of Presentation Before & After Twitter - How is it being used? Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) - PLE vs PLN - PLE vs VLE - Helping Teachers Twitter & English Learners - Introducing learners Questions

http://www.twitter.com/grahamstanley

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Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

image: Joyce Seitzinger, e-learning instructional designer : http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/
PLE vs PLN More PLE Diagrams here: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

image: Francesc Esteve, educational analyst, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid http://www.francescesteve.es/
PLE vs VLE PLE - open learning - informal learning - student/teacher owned - small pieces loosely joined

Some Benefits
"As people communicate online, that conversation becomes part of a
lively, significant, public digital knowledge - rather than chatting for one
moment with a small group of friends and colleagues, every person
potentially has access to a global audience. Taken together, that
conversation also creates a mode of knowing we've never had
before...these diverse viewpoints help us get past the biases of
individuals..." (Weinberger, 2007:146)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipeapple/3280609082/ Social software Spoilt for choice

“ Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing. One implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’ content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through learners themselves becoming producers of learning materials.” (Attwell, 2007) New approach to using technologies for learning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubspot/3111238226/ Barriers against Teacher take-up - “ twittiquete ” - impression of Twitter cliques

http://twitter.com/barbsaka/starter-pln

Autonomous 'Personal Learning Networks’ for Language Teachers APLaNeT Seven Partners: ISTEK, Turkey University West Scotland, UK – Sofia University, Bulgaria British Council, Spain – EuroEd Foundation, Romania CELT Athens, Greece – Pelikan, Czech Republic Associate Partners – 140 institutions from 33 countries

not 'build and they will come' but go to where the people are

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
guide people to existing professional resources / networks

inform about and support teachers in a wide variety of social networks http://www.slanguages.net/

http://www.facebook.com/LearnEnglish.BritishCouncil

http://twitter.com/learnenglish_BC
bringing learners together

introducing learners to Twitter

learners use of Twitter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/3616155715/ Twitter as a student self-help line the mobile factor

References http://eltple.wikispaces.com/ - Attwell (2007) Personal Learning Environments – the future of e-learning ? www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media11561.pdf - Downes (2010) Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Project http://ple.elg.ca/ - Various (2010) Personal Learning Environments http://edutechwiki.unige.ch - Weinberger (2007) The Power of the New Digital Disorder (New York:Holt)

Before and After Twitter Personal Learning Environments British Council Teacher Conference http://britishcouncilteachersconference2010.wikispaces.com 25 th September 2010 [email_address] http://eltple.wikispaces.com/

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