#PLENK2010 PLE/PLN

Here is my PLE/PLN in MOOC PLENK2010

John

#PLENK2010 Information abundance and PLE

Are we at an information abundance and overloading age?  How would PLE help us in sorting out and evaluating  information throughout the networks?  How is knowledge constructed with PLE?

Picture: From Flickr

Rita in her Information abundance leads to restricted depth raised many good points:

1. Problems with information abundance and attention economy

2. Changes in thinking process

3. Feasibility of individuals to think critically

4. Importance of reflective judgement

5. Importance of information literacy

6. Advantages of information abundance – a change of our search strategies from looking something up, to incorporating web-searching into thinking and reflection processes in order to enable a fruitful investigation.

7. PLEs that could enhance searches to be relevant to the needs of learners and increase depth of reflection and thinking.

Picture: on internet map

That stimulated me to ask:

1. How far would PLE assist in consolidating the above points for individual learning?

2. “If people do not have access to a robust conceptual framework developed over time with the help of knowledgeable others, they might have problems constructing knowledge.” What sort of robust conceptual framework would be important or ideal in PLE? Would such framework be based on a social constructivist or a connectivist approach, or a combination of them?

3. How would the development of critical literacies impact on PLE?

4. How effective is PLE in solving the information abundance problem as compared to VLE?

5. How would one evaluate a PLE?  What are the evaluation criteria of a successful PLE?

Thanks again for making me think.

John

Love

I found this video on Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love very interesting.

There are three elements of love: Intimacy, Passion and Commitment.

How would one apply the concept of love in social networking and online learning?

Does it explain why some people are more able to connect to others, because of the “love” factor?  Or is that empty love if there is only commitment in networking, with no intimacy or passion?

Love your enemy as thyself.  That is a teaching of Jesus Christ from the New Testament.  Is that love also applicable to “enemy” in an online environment?

How would you define love in online networking or networked learning?

Postscript: Another interesting video on love

The Last Lecture