Presentation at workshop in Wolverhampton University entitled the VLE is Undead

1. How we learn -
The challenge of the Personal
Learning Environment
By Graham Attwell

2. The industrial revolution of the 19th Century led to an
industrial model of schooling - training a mass work
force for a production line economy

3. and institutional pedagogic approaches
reflected the idea of ‘currere’

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

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

6. HOMOGENEITY

7. Virtual Learning Environments
have been based on traditional
educational models

8. for managing learners

9. The push delivery
of curriculum and learning materials

10. in walled gardens

11. owned by the institution

12. with hierarchical privileges

14. This model is now being
challenged

15. personalisation
of learning

16. new demand for
education

17. new sources and
contexts of learning

18. the changing ways in
which people are using
computers

19. developing personal
learning networks

20. participating in
communities of
practice

21. appropriating technologies
for learning

22. using multiple devices

23. learning
through
practice

24. Bricolage - (Levi Strauss)

25. Shaping
digital
identities

26. in other words developing
their own Personal Learning
Environments

27. The challenge to
institutions is to engage
with the new possibilities
the PLE offers

28. Thank you
for
watching
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