Developing PLEs to improve learning - a critical life skill - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Jun 07
  

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  information-literacy learning tools

  • Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
  • PLE is characterized by the freeform use of a set of lightweight services and tools that belong to and are controlled by individual learners. Rather than integrating different services into a centralized system, the idea is to provide the learner with a myriad of services and hand over control to her to select and use the services the way she deems fit'
  • '...PLE's are power tools. They empower the powerless to break out of their boxes. PLE's invites self-directed learning...It becomes possible to think for oneself and disagree with the groupthink...PLE's put distributed and democratized power in the hands of the individual. It counteracts the conformity pressures without confrontations or insurrections. PLE's are politically radical and perfectly natural.'

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