Personal Learning

Session PRS15

Annette Q PedersenNick Kearney

Mike Cosgrave

Floor exercise:

Meet another participant!Ask them your question, listen to answer

Answer their question

(At the sound: Swop questionsand go meet another participant!)

Group Discussions:

a) how can we embrace the benefits of personal learning in formal educational settings (as individuals, as programmes, as institutions?)

b) how can we support both teachers and learners in doing this?

Submit Answers to: todaysmeet/ourURL (TBA later)

Case:

Working with Personal learningat the Digital Humanities programme at UCC

Humanities scholars seek to understand the world and cultures in which people live and have lived through a variety of disciplines including literature, English and other modern languages, philosophy, art, art history, and history.

Engage with the ‘text’

Caterina Fake’s copy of Ulysees

Read for argument

For interpretation

Facts and Interpretations

Read for argument

For interpretation

Hand drawn student mindmap of article c2005

Images from class demonstration of digital reading and mindmapping,

C 2013

Building •Lit Review, •Argument map •Essay plan

from multiple mindmaps

Digital tools allow REUSE and SHARING of personal learning

• Lesson planning, 2015

• Mindmap with links to readings

• Mobile Device

• Personal Learning Environment in your pocket

From one page to PLEDH1003 Coursework Portfolio

Due no later than midnight, Thursday 10th December 2015 Upload to Blackboard as word doc or .pdf

The aim of this portfolio is to break down the various parts of the process of seeking out knowldge, making sense of it, and sharing it using tools for digital knowldge managment. It steps through the

process of research, reading, evaluating and analysis of material and constructing informed arguments and presenting the results in a variety of formats in a way that helps us to understand the process and

develops practical skills of research, analysis and writing in the digital age

The length should be 18-30 pages and must include the items listed below in the "minimum required" column. Each portfolio will be marked on the basis of the required items, and the "best of the rest" with portfolios showing a greater

range of items earning higer grades. This will ensure a degree of common ground along with flexibilty to recognise individual strengths. A key theme is that this work uses a range of different digital tools

Task Description Minimum required

Forum Posts Demonstrate ability to contribute to discussion on topics 5 posts

Forum Post (responses)

Responses to other student posts, demonstrate ability to engage in debate, offer supportive peer commentary

5 posts

Chose topic Chose a topic for exploration. Ideally it should be of interest to you, and be reasonably challenging. For most people, it will realte to your propsoed dissertation research field

1 paragraph

Locate scources

Find sources in a topic, using web searches. Should use more than one search engine, and capture a range of text, audio and visual sources, as well as communities of practice and social media networks

Export from Evernote or Zotero, or other tool

Evaluate Sources

Evaluate reliability of above sources, based a a set of criteria you develop Evaluation of 5 or more from the above collection, applying your set of criteria to each source

Mindmap Demonstrate ability to summarize a source in visual, non-text format; and distingush argument from supporting evidence

1, 1 page

"Literature Review"

Demonstrate ability to show the range of points of view on a topic across a number of sources, either in traditional literature reivew or other text or visual means. May be able to show the development of the debate over time

1, 1 page visual or longer written piece (max 10 pages)

Research Questions

Frame 1 or preferably more research questions for further research. 1 Page

Design for knowledge sharing

Outline plan for essay, research project, powerpoint, article, website, video or other presentation which shares the knowledge product. Could be essay plan, storyboard or other format but should 'tell a story'

3 different concepts, each presented in 1-2 pages

Collaborative Writing

Piece of collaborative writing on topics of shared interest, in groups of 4-5 5 pages

Other, Student suggested

Other artifacts which embody evidence of learning in the course, and show some awareness of your personal learning process

Clear these with Mike Cosgave first.

Final Reflection Reflection on what you learned from this, how it changed your presonal learning process, and how you might build on it

1-2 pages

2000 “Draw a mind map”

2000-2013 Development: inclusion ofNew tasks and toolsMetacognitive readings for studentsMaking learning visible

2015 Structured PortfolioRange of digital tools Linked to phases ofResearchAnalysisWriting

Integrates development of PLE built intoassessment

Blending Traditional scholarly skills with contemporary digital workflows

Questions?

Work on participants’ own casesor pick a scenario to work on together!

How do we continue to collaborate?

How do we further personal learning in institutions?

Join LinkedIn Group for crowdsourcing questions?

Upcoming ventures?

PLE conference?

Ideas from the room?