Ready or not, Personal Learning Environments are coming -

John Pallister

ePortfolio 2009, London - June 2009

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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

Motivation: failure

… found that It was not possible to introduce ePortfolios when the ePortfolio process was not fully integrated into the curriculum;

Something to do with personalisation and learning

environments

• On a mission to sort it out!

preparation

• Thinking – based on experience• Searches – web-based• AND – promoted discussion in:

– Twitter– Becta Collaboration + Research List– MirandaNet– TES– LinkedIn– ePortfolio + PLTs Group

‘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/

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

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]

Assessment for Learning (AFL) and curriculum choice are identified in most attempts at defining personalised

• 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’!

But that is the ePortfolio process

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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!

In support of the school:

• They have teachers who can …..

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