Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) in ICT - Mediated Language learning

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) in ICT - Mediated Language learning

1. Nicolas Talero Vaquen - Animación 3D

2. What is a PLE

   • Personalized, student- centered system
   • Formal and informal learning
   • Flexible in time and space
   • Learning with and through technology

3. Key elements PLE

   • Students: active agents, set their own goals
   • Teachers: facilitators and guides
   • Tools: apps, websites, media
   • Learning process: strategies, task, feedback

4. Benefits

   • Motivation, engagement
   • Autonomy and responsability
   • Skills
     • Reading
     • Listening
     • Writing
     • Speaking
   • Lifelong learning
   • SelfRegulation and SelfAssessment

5. Tools used

   • Reading
     • dictionaries (Cambridge, Duden)
     • Social bookmarking (reddit, digg)
     • Blogs (Edublogs,Blogger)
   • Listening
     • Videos (youtube)
     • Social networks (TikTok, Instagram)
     • Podcasts
   • Speaking
     • Zoom, Skype, google Meet
     • Webinars and videopresentations
     • Create and upload videos
   • Writing
     • Journals
     • Blogs
     • Padlet Boards

6. Teachers

   • Select and organize content
   • Select relevant tools
   • Feddbacks and helps in the progress
   • Guides students academic goals

7. Students

   • Previuos Knowledge
   • Different learning styles (visual, social, etc)
   • Values and motivations
   • Cognitive resources

8. Learning Strategies

   • Metacognitive Skills: Self-Awarness, Planning, Monitoring
   • Constructive tasks: Solving problems, creating content
   • Collaboration: Chats, Blogs, Group activities
   • Bloom´s Taxonomy
     • Games, quizzes, media
     • Understanding to creating

9. Insights

   • PLEs + ICT improve learning only when is well designed
   • Make (language) learning authentic and dynamic
   • Students choose WHAT, HOW, WHERE and WHEN to learn