This document summarizes a presentation on personal learning environments (PLEs) and personal learning networks (PLNs). It addresses 8 questions about PLEs/PLNs and education. For each question, several contributors provide responses in the form of quotes, images, and brief explanations. The questions cover topics such as the need for educational technology, implications of PLEs/PLNs for traditional education, attributes of a healthy PLE/PLN, pedagogies inspired by PLEs, implications for professional learning, what it means for teachers, strategies for managing networks, and whether PLEs/PLNs represent a transitional model.

1. PLE2010 unKeynote Presentation
Alec Couros and Graham Attwell and friends
Photo: Thomas Hawk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2442371176/
sizes/l/in/photostream/

2. QUESTION 1: With all of the available Web 2.0 tools, is there
a need for “educational technology”?
Photo Raymond Elferink

4. Contributed by Mark McGuire
Photo by by thumeco
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynethume/
154109994/

5. Question 2: What are the implications of PLEs/PLNs on
traditional modes/structures of education?

6. Contributed by Gemma Tur
PLEs may expand into traditional structures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xip/13979681/sizes/o/in/photostream/

7. When we seek
and we create
PLE
personal
learning spaces,
our classrooms
can no longer
be defined
by their
physical spaces. PLN

8. Contributed by Carlos Santos

9. Question3:
What are the key attributes of a healthy PLE/PLN?

10. Contributed by Gemma Tur
A healthy PLE is dynamic, diverse and interactive.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/labguest/3510995344/sizes/l/in/photostream/

11. What are the key
attributes of a
healthy PLE/PLN?
D E P TH
Background to this diagram – blog post 1 & blog post 2
Both online & offline
Linked into multiple
networks
Draw from eclectic
sources
Involve 2-way
information flow
Have people at their
heart
Contributed by Ian Guest
B R E A D T H

12. Contributed by Leslie Edwards

13. George Roberts

14. George Roberts

15. Empathy/Forgiveness
Contributed by Richard A. Schwier

17. Contributed by Richard A. Schwier hospitality

18. QUESTION 4: What pedagogies are inspired by PLEs (e.g., networked learning,
connected learning)? Give examples of where PLEs/PLNs have transformed practice.

19. Sia Vogel - My PLE

20. Question 5: What are the implications of PLEs/PLNs beyond
bringing educational technology into the classroom, and
specifically toward workplace/professional learning?

21. Contributed by Gemma Tur
One implication of PLEs in education:
empowering students’ learning
/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldm/14296081

22. Another implication of PLEs in education:
Working students’ digital attitude
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unav/4100393732/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Contributed by Gemma Tur

23. Question 6: If PLEs/PLNs are becoming the norm, what does it mean for
teachers/trainers (or the extension: what does it mean for training teachers &
trainers)?

24. If PLEs are becoming the norm,
it means networking our students from the very beginning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimiw/1878700854/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Contributed by Gemma Tur

25. Contributed by Mary Risner
Photo danceinthesky http://www.flickr.com/photos/
26533176@N00/403990660/

26. The networked student may become the networked professional.
THE WAY IS LONG... BUT IT CANNOT BE DONE ALONE.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/4173304621/
Contributed by Gemma Tur

27. Question 7: As our networks continue to grow, what strategies
should we have in managing our contacts, our connections, and
our attention? Or, extension, how scalable are PLEs/PLNs?

28. Question 8: Can we start thinking beyond PLEs/PLNs as models? Are
we simply at a transitional stage? What will be the next, new model for
learning in society? (e.g., where are we headed?)

29. Contributed by Meredith Stewart
How can you avoid
creating an echo
chamber PLE/PLN? CC-licensed photo by
lovestruck

30. Thank you
for
watching
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