1. Alt.
Ready or not, Personal Learning
Environments are coming -
John Pallister
ePortfolio 2009, London - June 2009
2. A ‘modern’ man, a learner in
2009
• Listens, watches (lurks)
• Increasingly participate, contribute, share
• Reflects and learns – anywhere anytime
• Obsessive Internet addiction
www.slideshare.net/JPallis001
3. Motivation: failure
… found that It was not possible to introduce
ePortfolios when the ePortfolio process
was not fully integrated into the
curriculum;
4. Something to do with
personalisation and learning
environments
• On a mission to sort it out!
5. preparation
• Thinking – based on experience
• Searches – web-based
• AND – promoted discussion in:
– Twitter
– Becta Collaboration + Research List
– MirandaNet
– TES
– LinkedIn
– ePortfolio + PLTs Group
6. ‘everyone’ telling schools to:
“put personalising learning at
the heart of their vision for
transforming teaching and
learning”http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/personalisedlearning/about/
7. Personalised Learning; what is it?
• means different things to different
people;
• Lots of discussion – talking about
different things;
• schools confused about what it is that
they need to introduce, implement or
support
8. confusion - who personalises ‘it’?
• ‘Personalised’ - done to the ‘learning’; that it had
been structured, organised or presented for the
consumption of the learner. [passive]
• OR the learner ‘personalises their own learning;
organising their own learning; organising their
own time; seeking info, advice and support from
anyone who is appropriate and available
accessible [active]
9. Assessment for Learning (AFL) and
curriculum choice are identified in most
attempts at defining personalised
10. But that is the ePortfolio process
• The ePortfolio process is consistent with
Assessment for Learning;
• If schools promote the ePortfolio process
they will be supporting personalisation;
they will be doing what they are being told
to ‘do’!
11. Curriculum choice for learners
• Learners need to be able to ‘see’ the curriculum
options that are available to them;
• Learners ‘expect’ to have their ‘voice’ listened to;
they expect to be able to exercise choice;
• Learners ‘expect’ a curriculum based on their
interests, abilities and aspirations, they want a
‘Me-curriculum’.
12. Need a ‘learner facing’ and learner
accessible curriculum
• If the learner is to make choices and take
an active part in their own learning they
need to know what is expected of them
and what is available to them;
• Schools need to make it clear, to learners
what their ‘offer’ is.
13. Competition for the ‘old’ school
• The learning environment provided by the school, is
complemented by those enabled by technology;
• If learning is metered-out and controlled by teachers in a
‘traditional learning environment’, during school hours,
the learner can now access learning opportunities
whenever they want to, as long as they have internet
access; the required skills and the motivation;
• The boundaries between formal, planned learning and
unplanned learning are likely to evaporate as Web 2+
increasingly provides, and is recognised, as providing a
space and a tool-set capable of supporting learning.
14. Learners ‘do’ personalised learning in
their Personal Learning Environment
• To ‘do’ personalised learning they need a
new skills set to operate in their Personal
Learning Environment;
• Nationally, Personal Learning and
Thinking skills have been defined.
15. STOP PRESS - Learners operate in
Personal Learning Environments - now
• Can a learner ‘operate’ in a PLE without
following the ePortfolio process?
• Can a school decide not to respect or support
their learner’s Personal Learning Environment?
• ‘competition’ no longer just from the school ‘next
door’ – global competition to provide 24/7
learning environments, here today – prepare for
tomorrow!
16. In support of the school:
• They have teachers who can …..
17. Also
• Deque of slides compiled to support this
presentation http://www.slideshare.net/jpallis001/london-2009-e-portfolio-v2-1677169
• Presentation on Web-based Curriculum
Mapping that supports this presentation;
http://www.slideshare.net/jpallis001/london-2009-curriculum-mapping
• Discussion being promoted via Twitter,
MirandaNet and Google Group
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/eportfolios-and-plts?hl=en
