Comments on: PLE 1.0 and PLE 2.0 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/ple-10-and-ple-20/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Tom Franklin http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/ple-10-and-ple-20/#comment-64412 Tom Franklin Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:22:35 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-64412 While you clearly had a pen, I am not sure that it was just a PLE. You presumably also used it to doodle in the margins (or the desk top), to write notes to your mates, love letters to the little girl at the next desk etc. In other words, it was a pen environment. It is not clear to me - despite many discussions on the issue - what is special about a personal <i><b>learning</b></i> environment that distinguishes it from your personal work environment, your personal entertainment environment, your personal community environment etc. There may be some specific tools that you want for each of these that are not used in the other. However, what I think we end up with is the personal environment. Oh, we have that already - only we either call it the browser or the desktop. So what we are really looking for is ways that we can use that better, and can integrate the various tools and things we want to do. While you clearly had a pen, I am not sure that it was just a PLE. You presumably also used it to doodle in the margins (or the desk top), to write notes to your mates, love letters to the little girl at the next desk etc. In other words, it was a pen environment. It is not clear to me - despite many discussions on the issue - what is special about a personal learning environment that distinguishes it from your personal work environment, your personal entertainment environment, your personal community environment etc. There may be some specific tools that you want for each of these that are not used in the other. However, what I think we end up with is the personal environment.

Oh, we have that already - only we either call it the browser or the desktop. So what we are really looking for is ways that we can use that better, and can integrate the various tools and things we want to do.

]]> By: AJ Cann http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/ple-10-and-ple-20/#comment-64409 AJ Cann Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:55:33 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-64409 Well in principle, yes, but in practice away from the high-flying pedagogical rhetoric and at the chalkface, err, keyboard, you can't ignore the technology when it comes to deliver the ideas in practice. Actually, primary schools spend a lot of time focusing on how to hold the pen, handwriting, etc, i.e. focusing on the technology. Well in principle, yes, but in practice away from the high-flying pedagogical rhetoric and at the chalkface, err, keyboard, you can’t ignore the technology when it comes to deliver the ideas in practice. Actually, primary schools spend a lot of time focusing on how to hold the pen, handwriting, etc, i.e. focusing on the technology.

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