widget-based ples
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talk at the JISC dev8ed conference in BirminghamTRANSCRIPT
… is developmentof competence.
(more or less planful)
LEARNING
MORE… OR LESS PLANFUL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
21ST CENTURY LEARNING SKILLS & COMPETENCES
“A competence is defined as the ability to successfully meet complex
demands in a particular context through the mobilization of psycho-social prerequisites (including both
cognitive and non-cognitive aspects)” (Rychen & Salganik, 2003b, p. 43)
Social“facilitate communicative and cooperative action that aim at identifying, managing and mastering conflicts” (Erpenbeck, 2003)
Professionalbasic and specialized general knowledge, basic psychomotor and mechanical skills, and disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge (Jäger, 2001)
Methodologicalability to independently acquire, structure, critically evaluate, and exploit knowledge in a creative way (Kauffeld et al., 2003)
Personalconcerned with those attitudes and character attributes required to perceive and utilize one’s own competencies and to act in a reflective and self-reflective way (Erpenbeck, 2003)
competence = a human potential
for action!
PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
A network of people surrounding an individual with the persons in this network making use of artefacts and tools while they engage in isolated or collaborative activities of more or less planful (co-)construction of knowledge and information (Wild et al., 2011).
Actions modify this environment
Aim: positively influence competence development (i.e. building up potential for future action)
Ecosystem: lack of control of the individual, characteristics
of all agents moderate performance and behaviour
COMPETENCES MOTIVATED
Planning competence refers to those skills, abilities, habits, attitudes, and knowledge that fix how goals, schedules, and paths are set.
Reflection is creative sense making of the past and enables planning.
Monitoring refers to how progress control is performed.
Last but not least, the pair acting and interacting group social & collaboration and information & tool competences.
planreflect
monitor
actinteract
(Wild et al., 2009)
Qualitative Interviews: 15 persons in 5 sessions (each 40 min to 1 hour)
The theoretical justificationor: why? Why? WHY?
‘CAUSE: MEANING IS SOCIAL
Douglas Adams’ ‘meaning of liff’:
– Epping: The futile movements of forefingers and eyebrows used when failing to attract the attention of waiters and barmen.
– Shoeburyness: The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
METHODICALCULTURALISM• Methodical culturalism is a form of
(radically social) constructivism. • Understanding is by nature social as it
is grounded in human action (Janich, 1998; Hesse et al., 2009)
• Therefore: understanding is always constituted (and restricted) by a culture of shared understanding
Logical abstractor = a release mechanism.
Quality of a signal
(96dpi)
learning = social interactionfor knowledge building
… and web-apps mediate between users and
knowledge
ACTIVITY THEORY
(Engestroem, 2008)
• A form of (socio-) constructivism. • Mediated action: Tools appropriate
collective experience and therefore mediate between subjects and objects.
In internalisation, “social interaction turns into mental activity” (Fjeld et al., 2002).
In objectification, individual’s mental processes result in the production of a new tool, which again can be involved in social interactions.
Widgets, Services, … and Shopping?
WIDGETBASED PLE
This is a ‘widget’
it’s a use-case sized mini (web) application
It’s either an open social gadget or a widget 1.0 app
Other apps can run it with the help of an RTE (Wookie, Shindig) and connectors
You can turn it into a mobile app (using e.g. phonegap)
PLE Architecture
shop /directory
using delicious
using piratepad.net/art1
using www.objectspot.org
share bookmarks
find papers
summarize papers
Recommendations: tools, activities, …
Recommendations:patterns
Analytics: Tracking:interactions & usage
Widgets &web applications
http://tinyurl.com/cfkno26
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http://code.google.com/p/edukapphttp://widgets.open.ac.uk:8080/