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lunedì 24 dicembre 2007
domenica 9 dicembre 2007
Personal Learning Environment
This is the most difficult activity I’ve ever dealt with during this course. I realized that it’s not so easy to develop a mindmap of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). It took me a lot of time to think about how I learn and in what context.
First of all I made a list of all the different activities and tools I use making no difference between formal or informal learning. As I now know the 80% of our learning is informal. The majority of our improvements take place outside the classroom. This is the reason why developing a mindmap of my PLE has overturned to be fundamental in order to organize a lifelong informal learning process. I tried to focus my attention on the tools and activities I’m using in an informal context. Then I thought about Web 2.0 tools we’re using in our University English course judging which can be useful for my English learning outside that formal context.
I wasn’t really convinced of the reliability of my first mindmap. The simple division between formal and informal context wasn’t coherent enough. I was looking for a clearer and more specific categorization. I thought that my European Language Portfolio could help me to find the categories I needed. Since my first year of English learning I have been thought to identify what kind of activity I was doing (e.g. listening exercises, reading exercises etc.). So I asked myself if I could use the same categorization for my PLE. The answer was yes. I divided my mindmap in 4 macro groups called Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing. I put in those groups all the tools and activities I found in origin.
I’m convinced that my mindmap will work very well. In my opinion it’s very important to understand which tool you can use if you want to improve a particular language skill.
First of all I made a list of all the different activities and tools I use making no difference between formal or informal learning. As I now know the 80% of our learning is informal. The majority of our improvements take place outside the classroom. This is the reason why developing a mindmap of my PLE has overturned to be fundamental in order to organize a lifelong informal learning process. I tried to focus my attention on the tools and activities I’m using in an informal context. Then I thought about Web 2.0 tools we’re using in our University English course judging which can be useful for my English learning outside that formal context.
I wasn’t really convinced of the reliability of my first mindmap. The simple division between formal and informal context wasn’t coherent enough. I was looking for a clearer and more specific categorization. I thought that my European Language Portfolio could help me to find the categories I needed. Since my first year of English learning I have been thought to identify what kind of activity I was doing (e.g. listening exercises, reading exercises etc.). So I asked myself if I could use the same categorization for my PLE. The answer was yes. I divided my mindmap in 4 macro groups called Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing. I put in those groups all the tools and activities I found in origin.
I’m convinced that my mindmap will work very well. In my opinion it’s very important to understand which tool you can use if you want to improve a particular language skill.
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