Team 2 has decided that we will reflect on each lesson in the "comment" section of this post. Each member will add content throughout the lesson as we grow and learn in each lesson. We felt that this would foster communication and collaboration in each lesson.
First off, I am glad to be working with such a great group. I have worked with both Emily & Courtney in prior courses and am excited to be in a group with them again. My reflection on lesson one has to do with the concept map on the PLE. I found this difficult to complete and still have it legible. I found myself wanting to connect almost every idea to each other. (In fact I ended up cleaning up my map quite a bit as I found it too distracting for my OCD-self). The PLE is so diverse in its tools yet at the same time a singular access source. Everything in the PLE makes it easier to manage multiple accounts and sites that have value to my life personally and professionally.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Mark that I am glad to be in such an awesome group. I haven't worked with Emily, but I can already tell from our first meeting that we're all going to work well together. I find that I am not going to mind working in a group this semester. The concept map was challenging for me as well. My challenge was in making it comprehensive. There are so many ways I could possibly use the PLE that it was difficult to think of all the ways.
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteExcellent observations on "I found myself wanting to connect almost every idea to each other."
I think it says our thinking is not linear. It is more like a "web" networking.
I encourage you to think why "web networking" represent your ideas better.
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteExcellent point: "The concept map was challenging for me as well. My challenge was in making it comprehensive."
I don't know think our PLE would be comprehensive enough to reflect our learning. Because I believe each person's PLE is evolving constantly. I encourage both of you to review your own PLE regularly to obtain better understanding on your own learning environments.
I like that your group integrate blog as a team space for communication, information sharing, and interaction etc. I encourage your group to turn the team blog into a ONLE for your own group so group members can visit it on regular basis. You team can add various gadgets to make the blog containing richer and live feed information. The example would be like our course blog: http://etc647.blogspot.com/. It contains almost all our course interaction, communications.
Web 2.0 tools are very flexible. Frequently people use them in non-traditional ways. That is the beauty of Web 2.0 technologies. We are different but we have things in common and work together as a community.
PLE, ONLE, and Connectivism are just pure technology impact to human learning; it is referred to our attitude toward to technology and learning. If we apply our learning paradigm to understand how PLE, ONLE, and Connectivism work, it is extremely difficult to understand how people learn with new network technologies. Perhaps that is reason why we have difficulty to understand how younger generations learn, how they use network technologies, and why they them.
Remember the keys of PLE and ONLE: Learners create content; organize content; and share content.