Growing Your Personal Learning    Environment
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Skills
Values
Attitudes
beliefs
Knowlege
Step 2: Who am I?
What I can do?
What do I know?
What I think?
What Motivates me?
Step 1: Who do I want to be?
the care and feeding of your
learning environment requires you to...
environment=people,places,things,ways
Learning Environment
Tools
http://wordpress.com
Google Calendar
Quizlet
Creately
Prezi
Google Docs
Wikis
http://quizlet.com/
Step 3: 
How do I get there?
Step 4: How do I support my journey?
Habits
30 day trial
one at a time
television
Facebook
Internet browsing
Reading

Games
Daily revision
exercise
What habits would you like to change/create?
Complaining
What can you do tomorrow?
How do I build skills?
How do I know/build what I know?
How do I develop my attitudes?
networks
professors
books
internet
news
media
religious affilitaions
friends
family
experiences
discussion
reflection on action
experiment
practice
evaluate your progress
compete
collaborate
envision ideal - choose a beginning
"begin with the end in mind"
contemplate
defend
make decisions
seek feedback
collaborate
share views
listen
seek feedback
communicate
research
make connections
search
organize
aggregate
analyze
discover
create
Skills
Values
Attitudes
beliefs
Knowlege
What I can do?
What do I know?
What I think?
What Motivates me?
How do I change my motivations?
Aggregate
Connect
Organize
Create
Collaborate
Blogs
mint.com
Freemind
Google Reader
Blogs
Delicious
Create an environment that facilitates your learning.
http://mint.com
http://calendar.google.com
Google Tasks
http://tasks.google.com
Evernote
http://evernote.com
RescueTime
http://rescuetime.com
http://reader.google.com
http://delicious.com
http://docs.google.com
http://wiki.ubc.ca
http://blogs.ubc.ca
http://twitter.com
http://prezi.com
http://creately.com
RefWorks
http://refworks.library.ubc.ca
habits of mind
Revisit Your Goals
what did you choose to do in the week?
were you successful?
why?
why not?
Feedback from last week
How do you create goals for less tangible (more abstract) outcomes?

Example: Critical Thinking relies on habits of mind - practice.
 
Habits of mind develop over time but there are approaches that you can integrate into daily life: 

http://leap.ubc.ca/get-started/study-toolkits/critical-thinking-toolkit/
Twitter
Forums
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.  I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.  When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town.  I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.  Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.  My family and I could have made an impact on our town.  Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.  ~Author Unknown
what is it?
what do you think?
what do others think?
?
what do we think?
Cindy:

It's all about the process, identifying knowledge, skills and attitudes you hold now, thinking about where you want to be in the future and bringing along the people, resources and approaches to help get you there.
Andre:

It is everything in your environment that leads toward learning.
Graham Attwell of the UK

"A PLE can use social software for informal learning which is learner driven, problem-based and motivated by interest - not as a process triggered by a single learning provider, but a continuous activity. Personal Learning Environments are by definition individual."He blogs at http://pontydysgu.org

Michael Wesch of the US:

"As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyse, share, discuss, critique, and create information. The need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able..."

From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments 
Posted January 7th by Michael Wesch
key features
individual and personal
forms around your goals and motivations
includes people, places and things as learning resources (enablers)
learning how to find, create and contribute to collective knowledge
requires reflection, conscious action, habits of mind.





Daytum
http://daytum.com
Mindmapping
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Mind_Mapping_Resources
Enablers
Enriching your PLE soil
connect these to your goals
add them to your PLE map
people
places
tools

what works for you?