Having some difficulty describing a my PLE. Compared to the submissions already entered here it seems erratic, undirected and certainly no rational method for assembling knowledge.
Problems:
What is learning?
Is it a form of discovery? Works for the model of the internet as place where all knowledge is available to anyone with the right search strategy. The right search term fed into Google and all will be revealed (almost a magic spell) but how would you know if the result is learning without passing it through your brain? Is learning passive accumulation without intervention? Surely learning has to change something somewhere inside of us in a notable way? Yet there is the repeated claim of learning being almost an innevitable artifact of information as if properly concentrated information of any type will throw off learning particles that pass up the chain from sub-knowable to recognizable category to sensible assembly. All this without intervention of thinking; spontaneous.
I’m unresolved on learning.
Purpose of PLE:
To collect and store information comes first. An intellectual material store and retrieval facility. From here we might move on to trading information and a kind of collaboration gas station. Interacting and sharing are important to the learning process now. Claiming propriatary information and being a data hog are not just bad form, it shows an allegiance to an outdated model of knowledge as “belonging” to an individual rather than as a property of the social universe. Of course we have yet to explain how people who share-all will actually put food on the table…
Under the purpose banner I’d like to propose the PLE as a tool for tracking and liberating information. As an attitude the PLE assumes things are knowable with effort. This includes a certain looseness in the rules of access where free is best, sourcing by other means is fair game and finally locked-in-journals information is taken to be unusable, therefore without value. Today’s equivilant of sorcerers, witches, trolls and educators in the pay of weapons manufacturers can keep their precious jems of wisdom, spells and incantations to impress boards of governors and country club membership committees. Anyway, a PLE can express a way of being, almost a lifestyle? (What a powerless word lifestyle is).
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I know. I'm also unsatisfied with an explanation of learning that doesn't involve one's sense of personal accomplishment/glee/satisfaction...some sense, in other words. An embodiment. Learning theories without that don't interest me much. Similarly, as you say, is all information really the same? Is it all just "content" to feed on? ("I have a life, not a lifestyle!" say the gay and lesbian movements around here.)
ReplyDeleteOn a (really slightly almost un-) related note, Scott: is it worth it for me to continue in this certificate program? You've taken other classes in it, correct? I'm tired, a bit frustrated, and wondering whether to spend the money for the next course.
Best,
Leah
Learning does almost always involve manipulation of information. repetition is one of the often used ways of manipulation of information, as is reformulating, connecting to other information, using images. see http://www.downes.ca/post/38502 point 7 Playing with information fosters learning, and playing only occurs when emotions are involved.
ReplyDelete(some people say unconscious learning exists)
Regards Jaap
hi, my student write for you , thanks
ReplyDeletehttp://www.st-folio-ead.blogspot.com/2012/01/projetos-sociais-x-clubes-profissionais.html
"Se ha prazer em jogar, como fica o prazer em estudar, grande questão!....as escolas fazem parte do mundo das convenções organizadas e desta forma necessitam rever as causas de aversão ao conhecimento ou afastamento dos alunos, como da mesma forma os professores necessitam trabalhar com o lado criativo e lúdico que mobilizam os alunos em direção ao conhecimento e a aprendizagem."
ReplyDeleteEu estou de acordo com Connectiv!
WhAt's world scattered..
ReplyDeleteI believe that a decade has gone, and this dispersion in the performance of MACRO people should be on the Micro especially for the students ..
reflect on the reflections of the Macro is important in our lives
(in my blog) bye