Week 6’s focus was on PLE (Personal Learning Environment). Actually I only manage to download all the material from Moodle, really don’t have time even to go through. I think this probably first time I enter lecture without reading any material. Too many responsibility to fulfill, too many works to make up, suddenly feel panic. Everything seems in disarray, unable to calm down……
I feel guilty and hope that I will be escape, but unfortunately Pn Ng wants us to write something about PLE……Fortunately Pearl’s presentation at least gave me a simple concept about PLE.
The term PLE describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. A typical PLE for example might incorporate blogs where students comment on what they are learning, just like what we do in class PXGT6110. Other than this, learners might store and share information and connect to peers and their collections of resources in a virtual learning platform. A PLE also puts learner in charge of their own learning processes, challenging them to reflect on the tools and resources that help them learn best. As a learning platform that is by difinition always evolving, a PLE requires students to engage in ongoing decision making to maintain, organize, and grow their learning environments. The process of self-directed learning requires a degree of self-awareness, and it must be given time to mature.
Most of the material did mention that PLE will be our future, our higher education system is gradually operation in this direction. But in primary school & secondary school, I think there still a long way to go. As I know, most of the secondary students is like a parrot, hardly have their own opinion. Even teacher pick suitable dishes to spoon feed them, some of them still feel lazy to open their mouth. Want them to in charge of their own learning, must start with changing their own mind-set, but most of all, teacher should the one to change their mind-set first. We are fortunate to be able to receive all those latest information in advance, what about millions of teachers who still using chalk & talk in T&L and strongly believe that is the only and most effective ways to teach. It is sad to say that in Malaysia still have a huge numbers of teacher don’t even have email account. In their opinion, internet is just a place for games, for social interaction……but not for learning, how are they going to make use of all those web 2.0 tools enhance T&L, I ‘m wondering. If most of our teachers still using traditional method to teach, how can our student keep up the pace of social progress.
Our group manage to discuss with Pn Ng and show her our wikispaces set up for assignment 3. We only manage to put in 3 activities meant for enhanceing F2 students's essay writing but still don't have time to beautifying the platform. Our wikispaces look blank and dull.Pn Ng gave us some idea to decorate the house we prepare for our students. Besides that, she also let us realise that we shouldn't scare our audients from the first impression.Therefore we decide to name the platform as "Paradise of Learning" and minimize all those heavy words, replace with some feature which will made students enjoy learning in virtual learning environments. Hopes that what we have done will successfully engaging students.
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